Cancel vs. Scrap — What's the Difference?

To annul or invalidate

Scrap consists of recyclable materials left over from product manufacturing and consumption, such as parts of vehicles, building supplies, and surplus materials. Unlike waste, scrap has monetary value, especially recovered metals, and non-metallic materials are also recovered for recycling.

To decide or announce that (a planned or scheduled event) will not take place, especially with no intention of holding it at a later time

A small piece or amount of something, especially one that is left over after the greater part has been used

To cross out with lines or other markings.

Discarded metal for reprocessing

To mark or perforate (a postage stamp or check, for example) to indicate that it may not be used again.

A fight or quarrel, especially a minor or spontaneous one

To neutralize or equalize; offset

Discard or remove from service (a redundant, old, or inoperative vehicle, vessel, or machine), especially so as to convert it to scrap metal

To remove (a common factor) from the numerator and denominator of a fractional expression.

Engage in a minor fight or quarrel

To remove (a common factor or term) from both sides of an equation or inequality.

A small piece or bit; a fragment.

To neutralize one another; counterbalance

Scraps Leftover bits of food.

The act or an instance of canceling; a cancellation.

Discarded waste material, especially metal suitable for reprocessing.

(transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.

Scraps Crisp pieces of rendered animal fat; cracklings.

(transitive) To invalidate or annul something.

A fight or scuffle.

(transitive) To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.

To break down into parts for disposal or salvage

(transitive) To offset or equalize something.

To discard or abandon as useless; cancel

To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.

To fight, usually with the fists.

To stop production of a programme.

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

To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.

The smallest amount.

(obsolete) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.

Leftover food.

(slang) To kill.

The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.

To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable). Compare cancel culture.

(uncountable) Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.scrap [4]

A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).

A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.

A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.

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

(obsolete) An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.

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

(printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

(obsolete) A snare for catching birds.

(printing) The page thus suppressed.

A fight, tussle, skirmish.

(printing) The page that replaces it.

(transitive) To discard.

To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.

To stop working on indefinitely.

To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.

(intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.

To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate.

(transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.

To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.

(transitive) To make into scrap.

To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.

To fight

An inclosure; a boundary; a limit.

Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.

The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

Specifically, a fragment of something written or printed; a brief excerpt; an unconnected extract.

A notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat

The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat; as, pork scraps.

Postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled;

Same as Scrap iron, below.

Make up for;

A small fragment of something broken off from the whole;

Declare null and void; make ineffective;

Worthless material that is to be disposed of

Remove or make invisible;

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

Of cheques or tickets

The act of fighting; any contest or struggle;

Dispose of (something useless or old);

Have a disagreement over something;

Make into scrap or refuse;

Disposed of as useless;