scrap -
a small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used; "she jotted it on a scrap of paper"; "there was not a scrap left"
scrap -
the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap"
battle,
struggle,
conflict a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement"
waste material,
waste matter,
waste product,
waste useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly; "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipation of natural resources"
scrap metal discarded metal suitable for reprocessing; "he finally sold the car for scrap metal"
scrap -
make into scrap or refuse; "scrap the old airplane and sell the parts"
convert change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change; "The substance converts to an acid"
scrap -
have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something"
Scrap is a term used to describe recyclable materials left over from every manner of product consumption, such as parts of vehicles, building supplies, and surplus materials. Often confused with waste, scrap, in fact, has significant monetary value. Overall, the scrap industry processes more than 145,000,000 short tons of recyclable material each year into raw material feedstock for industrial manufacturing around the world.
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scrap A small fragment of something broken off from the whole.