scrap
A piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portionA (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
» There isn't a scrap of food in the refrigerator.
В холодильнике нет ни крошки еды.
У холодильнику не залишилося їжі.
Meaning
10 senses(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
A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
(countable, uncountable)The smallest amount.
I don't care a scrap.
(countable, usually plural, uncountable)Leftover food.
Give the scraps to the animals: any meat to the dogs, and the rest to the hogs.
(countable, uncountable)The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
pork scraps
(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
(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
(uncountable)Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades.
(countable, ethnic, offensive, slur, uncountable)A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.
A fight, tussle, skirmish.
We got in a little scrap over who should pay the bill.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A snare for catching birds.
Examples
108 sentencesThere isn't a scrap of food in the refrigerator.
У холодильнику не залишилося їжі.
ruВ холодильнике нет ни крошки еды.
Tom fed his dog table scraps.
ruТом накормил свою собаку остатками еды со стола.
Tom feeds his dog table scraps.
The plan has now been scrapped.
The entire plan has been scrapped.
Translations
9 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 2
By meaning 2
Origin
From Middle English scrappe, from Old Norse skrap, from skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”), froFrom 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.
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Forms
plural: scrapsSynonyms
137 synonymsWord family
11 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable