Scrap vs. Junk — What's the Difference?

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.

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

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

Articles that are worn-out or fit to be discarded

Discarded metal for reprocessing

Cheap or shoddy material.

A fight or quarrel, especially a minor or spontaneous one

Something meaningless, fatuous, or unbelievable

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

The genitals.

Engage in a minor fight or quarrel

The buttocks.

A small piece or bit; a fragment.

(Slang) Heroin.

Scraps Leftover bits of food.

Hard salt beef for consumption on board a ship.

Discarded waste material, especially metal suitable for reprocessing.

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

Scraps Crisp pieces of rendered animal fat; cracklings.

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

A fight or scuffle.

Cheap, shoddy, or worthless

To break down into parts for disposal or salvage

Having a superficial appeal or utility, but lacking substance

To discard or abandon as useless; cancel

Relating to or similar to junk bonds, especially in having a high risk of default

To fight, usually with the fists.

Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash, garbage.

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

A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.

The smallest amount.

(slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.

Leftover food.

(slang) The genitalia, especially of a male.

The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.

(nautical) salt beef.

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

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.

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

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

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

(attributive) Material or resources of a kind lacking commercial value.

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

; gibberish.

(obsolete) A snare for catching birds.

(nautical) A Chinese sailing vessel.

A fight, tussle, skirmish.

To throw away.

(transitive) To discard.

To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junkshop)

To stop working on indefinitely.

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

(intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.

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.

(transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.

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

(transitive) To make into scrap.

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

To fight

Hard salted beef supplied to ships.

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

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.

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

The remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up

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

Any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails

Same as Scrap iron, below.

Dispose of (something useless or old);

A small fragment of something broken off from the whole;

Worthless material that is to be disposed of

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

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;