WordNet Dictionary- [n] a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- [n] a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye"
- [v] make into scrap or refuse; "scrap the old airplane and sell the parts"
- [v] have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These tewo fellows are always scrapping over something"
- [v] dispose of (something useless or old); "trash these old chairs"; "junk an old car"; "scrap your old computer"
Webster's 1913 Dictionary\Scrap\ (skr[a^]p), n. [OE. scrappe, fr. Icel. skrap
trifle, cracking. See {Scrape}, v. t.]
1. Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a
fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
I have no materials -- not a scrap. --De Quincey.
2. Specifically, a fragment of something written or printed;
a brief excerpt; an unconnected extract.
3. pl. The crisp substance that remains after drying out
animal fat; as, pork scraps.
4. pl. Same as {Scrap iron}, below.
{Scrap forgings}, forgings made from wrought iron scrap.
{Scrap iron}.
(a) Cuttings and waste pieces of wrought iron from which
bar iron or forgings can be made; -- called also
{wrought-iron scrap}.
(b) Fragments of cast iron or defective castings suitable
for remelting in the foundry; -- called also {foundry
scrap}, or {cast scrap}.
Computing DictionarySomething written at csir, Pretoria, South Africa in the late 1970s. It ran on interdata and perkin-elmer computers and was in use until the late 1980s.