Scrap
Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
Specifically, a fragment of something written or printed; a brief excerpt; an unconnected extract.
The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat; as, pork scraps.
Same as Scrap iron, below.
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Scrap Quotations
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
Ayn Rand
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
Pablo Picasso
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
E. O. Wilson
We're not going to scrap the budget and make up some totally new platform the day after the election. So it's certainly willingness to compromise but we're not going back on the fundamental things we're running on in this campaign.
Stephen Harper
The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.
Dean Koontz
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
Graham Greene
When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.
Alexander Chase
I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.
Janet Napolitano
Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them.
Randy West
Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.
David Talbot
It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it's better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap.
Richard Morris
If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?
J. M. Coetzee
After taking temporary charge last season he took us from looking down at the fringes of another relegation scrap, to within a kick of getting into Europe.
Robbie Fowler
I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?
Vida Blue
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Scrap Translations
scrap in Afrikaans is flard
scrap in Danish is lap, pjalt
scrap in Dutch is afkeuren
scrap in Finnish is repale
scrap in French is ferraille, chiffon, mettre au rebut
scrap in German is ausrangieren, Teil, Schrott
scrap in Italian is ferraglia
scrap in Norwegian is klut
scrap in Portuguese is sucata
scrap in Spanish is chatarra, recorte, de desecho
scrap in Swedish is skrot, skrota ned, bit, urklipp
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