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Scrap

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.
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Junk

Discarded material, such as glass, rags, paper, or metal, some of which may be reused in some form.
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Scrap

A small piece or amount of something, especially one that is left over after the greater part has been used
Scraps of information
I scribbled her address on a scrap of paper
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Junk

Articles that are worn-out or fit to be discarded
Broken furniture and other junk in the attic.
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Scrap

Discarded metal for reprocessing
The steamer was eventually sold for scrap
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Junk

Cheap or shoddy material.
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Scrap

A fight or quarrel, especially a minor or spontaneous one
He had several minor scraps with the army authorities
They were involved in a goalmouth scrap and a player was sent off
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Junk

Something meaningless, fatuous, or unbelievable
Nothing but junk in the annual report.
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Scrap

Discard or remove from service (a redundant, old, or inoperative vehicle, vessel, or machine), especially so as to convert it to scrap metal
A bold decision was taken to scrap existing plant
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Junk

The genitals.
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Scrap

Engage in a minor fight or quarrel
The older boys started scrapping with me
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Junk

The buttocks.
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Scrap

A small piece or bit; a fragment.
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Junk

(Slang) Heroin.
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Scrap

Scraps Leftover bits of food.
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Junk

Hard salt beef for consumption on board a ship.
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Scrap

Discarded waste material, especially metal suitable for reprocessing.
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Junk

A traditional Chinese sailing vessel having a high poop and usually two or more masts bearing battened lugsails.
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Scrap

Scraps Crisp pieces of rendered animal fat; cracklings.
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Junk

To discard as useless or sell to be reused as parts; scrap.
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Scrap

A fight or scuffle.
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Junk

Cheap, shoddy, or worthless
Junk jewelry.
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Scrap

To break down into parts for disposal or salvage
Scrap an old stove.
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Junk

Having a superficial appeal or utility, but lacking substance
"the junk issues that have dominated this year's election" (New Republic).
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Scrap

To discard or abandon as useless; cancel
Scrap a plan.
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Junk

Relating to or similar to junk bonds, especially in having a high risk of default
Debt of junk status.
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Scrap

To fight, usually with the fists.
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Junk

Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash, garbage.
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Scrap

A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
I found a scrap of cloth to patch the hole.
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Junk

A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
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Scrap

The smallest amount.
I don't care a scrap.
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Junk

(slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
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Scrap

Leftover food.
Give the scraps to the animals: any meat to the dogs, and the rest to the hogs.
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Junk

(slang) The genitalia, especially of a male.
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Scrap

The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
Pork scraps
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Junk

(nautical) salt beef.
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Scrap

(uncountable) Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.scrap [4]
That car isn't good for anything but scrap.
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Junk

Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
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Scrap

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

(dated) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
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Scrap

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

(attributive) Material or resources of a kind lacking commercial value.
Junk fish
Junk trees
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Scrap

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

; gibberish.
The student put down junk for answers just to finish his homework more quickly.
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Scrap

(obsolete) A snare for catching birds.
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Junk

(nautical) A Chinese sailing vessel.
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Scrap

A fight, tussle, skirmish.
We got in a little scrap over who should pay the bill.
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Junk

To throw away.
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Scrap

(transitive) To discard.
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Junk

To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junkshop)
(On Facebook, a record collector wrote:) "The newest addition to my Annette Hanshaw collection, I junked this beautiful flawless E-copy within walking distance from my house."
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Scrap

To stop working on indefinitely.
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Junk

A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece. See Chunk.
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Scrap

(intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
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Junk

Pieces of old cable or old cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
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Scrap

(transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
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Junk

Old iron, or other metal, glass, paper, etc., bought and sold by junk dealers.
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Scrap

(transitive) To make into scrap.
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Junk

Something worthless, or only worth its value as recyclable scrap.
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Scrap

To fight
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Junk

Hard salted beef supplied to ships.
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Scrap

Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
I have no materials - not a scrap.
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Junk

A large vessel, without keel or prominent stem, and with huge masts in one piece, used by the Chinese, Japanese, Siamese, Malays, etc., in navigating their waters.
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Scrap

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

The remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
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Scrap

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

Any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails
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Scrap

Same as Scrap iron, below.
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Junk

Dispose of (something useless or old);
Trash these old chairs
Junk an old car
Scrap your old computer
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Scrap

A small fragment of something broken off from the whole;
A bit of rock caught him in the eye
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Scrap

Worthless material that is to be disposed of
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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
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Scrap

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
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Scrap

Dispose of (something useless or old);
Trash these old chairs
Junk an old car
Scrap your old computer
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Scrap

Have a disagreement over something;
We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America
These tewo fellows are always scrapping over something
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Scrap

Make into scrap or refuse;
Scrap the old airplane and sell the parts
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Scrap

Disposed of as useless;
Waste paper
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