Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - scrap
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1. n. & v. --n. 1 a small detached piece; a fragment or remnant. 2 rubbish or waste material. 3 an extract or cutting from something written or printed. 4 discarded metal for reprocessing (often attrib.: scrap metal). 5 (with neg.) the smallest piece or amount (not a scrap of food left). 6 (in pl.) a odds and ends. b bits of uneaten food. 7 (in sing or pl.) a residuum of melted fat or of fish with the oil expressed. --v.tr. (scrapped, scrapping) discard as useless. Phrases and idioms scrap heap 1 a pile of scrap materials. 2 a state of uselessness. scrap merchant a dealer in scrap. Etymology: ME f. ON skrap, rel. to skrapa SCRAPE 2. n. & v. colloq. --n. a fight or rough quarrel, esp. a spontaneous one. --v.tr. (scrapped, scrapping) (often foll. by with) have a scrap. Derivatives scrapper n. Etymology: perh. f. SCRAPE
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I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old Norse skrap ~s; akin to Old Norse skrapa to ~e Date: 14th century fragments of discarded or leftover food, 2. a small detached piece , a fragment of something written, printed, or spoken , the least bit , cracklings, 4. fragments of stock removed in manufacturing, manufactured articles or parts rejected or discarded and useful only as material for reprocessing, II. transitive verb (~ped; ~ping) Date: circa 1891 to convert into ~, to abandon or get rid of as no longer of enough worth or effectiveness to retain , see: discard III. noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1846 fight, IV. intransitive verb (~ped; ~ping) Date: circa 1874 quarrel, fight ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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