scrap : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: scrap	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for scrap
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scrap n a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye" Synonym(s): bit, chip, flake, fleck, scrap worthless material that is to be disposed of Synonym(s): rubbish, trash, scrap a small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used; "she jotted it on a scrap of paper"; "there was not a scrap left" the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap" Synonym(s): fight, fighting, combat, scrap v dispose of (something useless or old); "trash these old chairs"; "junk an old car"; "scrap your old computer" Synonym(s): trash, junk, scrap have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something" Synonym(s): quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate make into scrap or refuse; "scrap the old airplane and sell the parts"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scrap \Scrap\ (skr[acr]p), n. [OE. scrappe, fr. Icel. skrap trifle, cracking. See {Scrape}, v. t.] 1. Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion. I have no materials -- not a scrap. --De Quincey. 2. Specifically, a fragment of something written or printed; a brief excerpt; an unconnected extract. 3. pl. The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat; as, pork scraps.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shrap \Shrap\, Shrape \Shrape\, n. [Cf. {Scrap}, and {Scrape}.] A place baited with chaff to entice birds. [Written also {scrap}.] [Obs.] --Bp. Bedell.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
SCRAP Something written at {CSIR}, Pretoria, South Africa in the late 1970s. It ran on {Interdata} and {Perkin-Elmer} computers and was in use until the late 1980s. [But what was it?] (1994-12-15)