Meaning

10 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.

    I found a scrap of cloth to patch the hole.

    Stückchen, Fetzen

    кусо́чекkusóček, клочо́кkločók, обры́вокobrývok

    a small fragment of something broken off from the whole

  2. A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.

    (countable, uncountable)The smallest amount.

    I don't care a scrap.

  3. (countable, usually plural, uncountable)Leftover food.

    Give the scraps to the animals: any meat to the dogs, and the rest to the hogs.

  4. (countable, uncountable)The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.

    pork scraps

  5. (uncountable)Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.

    That car isn't good for anything but scrap.

    Altmaterial, Altmetall, Schrott

    ломlom, металлоло́мmetallolóm, желе́зный ломželéznyj lom

    брухтbruxt, металобру́хтmetalobrúxt, ломlom

  6. (UK, countable, in the plural, uncountable)A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.

    a small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used

  7. (uncountable)Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades.

  8. (countable, ethnic, offensive, slur, uncountable)A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.

  9. A fight, tussle, skirmish.

    We got in a little scrap over who should pay the bill.

  10. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A snare for catching birds.

Examples

108 sentences
  1. There isn't a scrap of food in the refrigerator.

    У холодильнику не залишилося їжі.

    ruВ холодильнике нет ни крошки еды.

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  2. Tom fed his dog table scraps.

    ruТом накормил свою собаку остатками еды со стола.

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  3. Tom feeds his dog table scraps.

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  4. The plan has now been scrapped.

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  5. The entire plan has been scrapped.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
discarded objects:
Русский
By meaning 2
small piece, fragment:
discarded objects:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
small piece, fragment:
discarded objects:

Origin

From Middle English scrappe, from Old Norse skrap, from skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”), fro

From Middle English scrappe, from Old Norse skrap, from skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Germanic *skrapōną, *skrepaną (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skreb-, *skrep- (“to engrave”). Cf. Swedish skräp (“garbage”).

Perhaps from the obsolete colloquial meaning "sinister plot, scheme, villainy", or a dialectal variant of scrape.

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Forms

plural: scraps
Singularscrap
Pluralscraps

regular

Synonyms

137 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

11 related words

See also

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