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  5  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Scrap  \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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Shrap  \Shrap\,  Shrape  \Shrape\,  n.  [Cf.  {Scrap},  and  {Scrape}.] 
  A  place  baited  with  chaff  to  entice  birds.  [Written  also 
  {scrap}.]  [Obs.]  --Bp.  Bedell. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  scrap 
  adj  :  disposed  of  as  useless;  "waste  paper"  [syn:  {cast-off(a)},  {discarded}, 
  {junked},  {scrap(a)},  {waste}] 
  n  1:  a  small  fragment  of  something  broken  off  from  the  whole;  "a 
  bit  of  rock  caught  him  in  the  eye"  [syn:  {bit},  {chip}, 
  {flake},  {fleck}] 
  2:  a  piece  of  cloth  that  is  left  over  after  the  rest  has  been 
  used  or  sold  [syn:  {end},  {remainder},  {remnant},  {oddment}] 
  v  :  dispose  of  "trash  these  old  chairs;";  "junk  an  old  car" 
  [syn:  {trash},  {junk}] 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  SCRAP 
 
  Something  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. 
 
  [But  what  was  it?] 
 
  (1994-12-15) 
 
 
 
  From  THE  DEVIL'S  DICTIONARY  ((C)1911  Released  April  15  1993)  [devils]: 
 
  SCRAP-:BOOK:,  n.  A  book  that  is  commonly  edited  by  a  fool.  Many 
  persons  of  some  small  distinction  compile  scrap-books  containing 
  whatever  they  happen  to  read  about  themselves  or  employ  others  to 
  collect.  One  of  these  egotists  was  addressed  in  the  lines  following, 
  by  Agamemnon  Melancthon  Peters: 
 
  Dear  Frank,  that  scrap-book  where  you  boast 
  You  keep  a  record  true 
  Of  every  kind  of  peppered  roast 
  That's  made  of  you 
 
  Wherein  you  paste  the  printed  gibes 
  That  revel  round  your  name 
  Thinking  the  laughter  of  the  scribes 
  Attests  your  fame; 
 
  Where  all  the  pictures  you  arrange 
  That  comic  pencils  trace  -- 
  Your  funny  figure  and  your  strange 
  Semitic  face  -- 
 
  Pray  lend  it  me  Wit  I  have  not 
  Nor  art,  but  there  I'll  list 
  The  daily  drubbings  you'd  have  got 
  Had  God  a  fist.




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