scrap

[skræp]

Definition:
1. A small piece of something, especially paper, cloth, etc.
2. A small fragment of something broken off from the whole.
3. Have a disagreement over something.
4. A small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used.

Use 'scrap' in a sentence:

1. The decision to close the factory has consigned 6 000 people to the scrap heap.
2. This concept appears in manufacturing where they count both scrap and inventory.
3. I heard various scraps of conversation over the dinner table.
4. A crumpled scrap of paper was found in her handbag.
5. This machine is so old that it will soon have to be scrapped.
6. It had been thought that passport controls would be scrapped.
7. She was just a scrap of a thing.
8. He had suffered a mild concussion in a scrap for a loose ball.
9. Some thieves do not even bother to melt down stolen silver for its scrap value.
10. The article had been authored by Raymond Kennedy. He read it right through, looking for any scrap of information that might have passed him by.
11. On May 5, 2011, several Israeli scrap tanks were neatly placed in a scrapyard of an army base near the southern Israeli city of Buffalo.
12. All of this will be a moot point once the robot armies rise to power and start pulverizing each other with scrap metal.
13. Once you do the calculations, you realise that the scrap in your hand is a very exciting discovery.
14. The ship was broken up for scrap metal.
15. Waterbirds, for example, can choke on plastic bottle rings and get cut by scrap metal.
16. Sell that car for scrap.
17. It won't make a scrap of difference.
18. He rebuilt the engine using parts from cars that had been scrapped.
19. For just the slightest scrap of love?
20. The oldest of the aircraft were scrapped.
21. If you have a piece of scrap paper with you, suppose that you've started your program as follows.
22. Mary gathered a scrap of courage.
23. The committee backtracked by scrapping the controversial bonus system.
24. Scraps of material were saved, cut up and pieced together for quilts.
25. Thousands of tanks, artillery pieces and armoured vehicles will be cut up for scrap.
26. President Hussein called on all countries in the Middle East to scrap nuclear or chemical weapons.
27. We will sift every scrap of evidence.
28. Don't litter up the floor with scraps of paper.
29. A scrap of engine. A picture tube's neck.
30. At the edge of the city, we found ourselves in front of an automobile scrap yard.
31. A man comes round regularly collecting scrap.
32. The bigger boys started scrapping.
33. Jerry forced scrap wood through the vents in the grill to stoke the fire.
34. She must excise every scrap of cancerous tissue.
35. A lorry piled with scrap metal had shed its load.
36. Thousands of Europe's tanks and guns are going to the scrap heap.
37. Billy Bonds has never been one to avoid a scrap.
38. They need every scrap of information they can get.
39. This agreement, if not implemented, is a mere scrap of paper.
40. A lot of the scrap metal can be melted down and used again.
41. If something wrong is found upstream, or if we stop building the product, the scrap will be higher due to the in-process inventory.
42. PO was about to scrap the project.
43. She scribbled his phone number on a scrap of paper.
44. Large sheets of scrap paper to glue on.
45. Davina was sorting out scraps of material.
46. There's not a scrap of evidence to support his claim.
47. He went to prison for receiving stolen scrap iron.
48. There's always tons of scrap paper in Dad's office.
49. They had been forced to scrap plans for a new school building.