SCRAPS

garbage, refuse, food waste, scraps

(noun) food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

scraps

plural of scrap

Verb

scraps

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scrap

Anagrams

• scarps

Source: Wiktionary


SCRAP

Scrap, n. Etym: [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.

Definition: The crisp substance that remains after trying out animal fat; as, pork scraps.

4. pl.

Definition: Same as Scrap iron, below. Scrap forgings, forgings made from wrought iron scrap.

– Scrap iron. (a) Cuttings and waste pieces of wrought iron from which bar iron or forgings can be made; -- called also wrought-iron scrap. (b) Fragments of cast iron or defective castings suitable for remelting in the foundry; -- called also founding scrap, or cast scrap.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

18 May 2025

OBLIQUE

(adjective) slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; “the oblique rays of the winter sun”; “acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles”; “the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base”


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