Word Finder - scrap

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

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I found a scrap of cloth to patch the hole.

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(usually in the plural) Leftover food.

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Give the scraps to the dogs and watch them fight.

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The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.

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pork scraps

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

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That car isn't good for anything but scrap.

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

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A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Norte gang.

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A snare for catching birds.

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To discard.

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(of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.

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To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.

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To dispose of at a scrapyard.

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To make into scrap.

Hunter held out a small scrap of paper.

One day you'll be glad you have this in your scrap book.

She picked up her plate and scraped the food into a scrap bowl for the cat.

I've tossed him a scrap of bread but I fear it will be inadequate to meet his long-term needs.

Often the formula was written on a strip of rag or a scrap of papyrus and tied round the neck of the person for whom it was intended.

If the master cylinder bore is scored, the whole unit is scrap and will need to be replaced.

Counterpane, written by Roz, is a wonderful blog about this grandmother's love of scrap quilting.

I feel like I'm the scrap heap at 41.

Old tires are recycled by approved scrap tire collection contractors.

By looking for scrap lumber and carpet you can keep your costs down and help environment at the same time.

Stillmeadow Quilting, by blogger Elinor Dashwood, features her beautifully made scrap quilts.

The next step is to write down every unaccounted-for gotta-do cramming your head onto its own scrap of paper.

Ex-works engines, engines awaiting scrap and in workaday condition, and stripped down in the works are all included.

Scrapbooks make wonderful, unique baby gifts, and since no two scrap books are the same, your gift will certainly be one of a kind!

SendAFrame is the world's largest online retailer of ready-made and custom picture frames, photo albums and all manner of framing and scrap booking needs.

Supply fluctuates based on mining activities and the amount of silver recycled as scrap metal.

Ask the home improvement store if they have any scrap lumber that you can purchase for a very reduced rate.

Find throw-away scrap lumber at various building sites, or bulk trash pick ups; always ask before taking.

This type of litter, comprised of scrap bits from pine lumber, has many advantages over the popular clay and silica litter varieties.

Print on both sides of a sheet of paper or use the plain side for scrap paper.

But there are options available to us that will make our quilts look more like the treasured scrap quilts of old, and there are three easy projects you can do to make keepsake quilts of your own from things around the house.

The rubber comes into commerce in thick strips or sheets or as " scrap."

The latex, which exudes slowly and in many tortuous courses, some of it ultimately falling on the ground, is allowed to remain on the tree for several days, until it becomes dry and solid, when it is pulled off in strings, which are either rolled up into balls or put into bags in loose masses, in which form it enters commerce under the name of Ceara " scrap."

Scrap mica is ground to powder or used in the manufacture of micanite.

It is also necessary to add that there is one small scrap of papyrus of the 3rd century containing a few verses of the 4th Gospel.

The proportion of pig to scrap used depends chiefly on the relative cost of these two materials, but sometimes in part also on the carbon-content which the resultant steel is to have.

Thus in the Westphalian pig and scrap practice, scrap usually forms 75 or even 80% of the charge, and pig only from 20 to 25%, indeed only enough to supply the carbon inevitably burnt out in melting the charge and heating it up to a proper casting temperature; and here the charge lasts only about 6 hours.

A scrap of annals has been found extending from the earliest times to the Vth Dynasty, as well as a very fragmentary list of kings reaching nearly to the end of the Middle Kingdom, to help out the scattered data of the other monuments.

Tradition, mythology and later customs make it possible to recover a scrap of the political history of that far-off time.

He was, after his student course, appointed stipendiarius by the Arna-Magnaean trustees, and worked for fourteen years in the Arna-Magnaean Library till, as he said, he knew every scrap of old vellum and of Icelandic written paper in that whole collection.

Let's get out of this here ken­nel and let the hound dogs scrap for themselves.

A few minutes later he returned with a scrap of wood, some nails and a hammer.

Both carbon and alloy steels are produced in electric arc furnaces and scrap rather than molten metal is used as the base material.

Students practiced using scrap, found and home made tools for waxing in conjunction with stencils before embarking on their finished batiks.

Terraced houses crammed close with a rainbow of laundry set out to dry, a colorful scrap collage filling in back gardens.

The Swanage site is extremely compact, so use is made of every scrap of space.

One last Class 29 remained for many years among some older compatriots in the scrap line at Woodham's in Barry, South Wales.

The increased dumping is partly due to scrap dealers charging for the disposal of old vehicles because of increased recycling costs.

Lists of registered scrap dealers are held by local authorities.

The table scrap thing makes a person feel like a benevolent despot, a human queen of the cat realm.

So -- we have come a long way from a tiny scrap of paper to the second largest distiller in England!

Even the eminently employable are left on the scrap heap.

Ever practical, Richard turned his hand to constructing home made incubators from scrap materials.

He plans to scrap the pound within two years.

They would use the revenue from this to scrap university tuition fees.

One day a scrap merchant came looking for unwanted items.

Has a market of spain when in spring princess scrap the stella.

The concentrated copper solution was pumped into a set of tanks into which was put scrap iron from the tin-plate industry.

I was in my tracksuit pants without a scrap of make-up on, with a sticker with my name on it.

It starts with the exhortation to take every unaccounted-for scrap of paper in your workstation that you ca n't junk.