different between amount vs scrap

English

Etymology

From Middle English amounten (“to mount up to, come up to, signify”), from Old French amonter (“to amount to”), from amont, amunt (“uphill, upward”), from the prepositional phrase a mont (“toward or to a mountain or heap”), from Latin ad montem, from ad (“to”) + montem, accusative of mons (“mountain”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?.mount', IPA^(key): /??ma?nt/
• Rhymes: -a?nt

Noun

amount (plural amounts)

1. The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).

2. A quantity or volume.
3. (nonstandard, sometimes proscribed) The number (the sum) of elements in a set.

Hyponyms

• notional amount
• principal amount

Derived terms

• paramount

Translations

Verb

amount (third-person singular simple present amounts, present participle amounting, simple past and past participle amounted)

1. (intransitive, followed by to) To total or evaluate.

   It amounts to three dollars and change.

2. (intransitive, followed by to) To be the same as or equivalent to.

   He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.

   His response amounted to gross insubordination

3. (obsolete, intransitive) To go up; to ascend.

Translations

See also

• extent
• magnitude
• measurement
• number
• quantity
• size

Further reading

• amount in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• amount in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• amount at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• mantou, moutan, outman, tomaun

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk?æp/
• Rhymes: -æp

Etymology 1

Middle English scrappe, from Old Norse skrap, from skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Germanic *skrap?n?, *skrepan? (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skreb-, *skrep- (“to engrave”)

Noun

scrap (plural scraps)

1. A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
   • 1852, Thomas De Quincey, Sir William Hamilton (published in Hogg's Instructor)

     I have no materials — not a scrap.

   I found a scrap of cloth to patch the hole.

2. (usually in the plural) Leftover food.

   Give the scraps to the dogs and watch them fight.

3. The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.

   pork scraps

4. (uncountable) Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.

5. (Britain, in the plural) A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
6. (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.
7. (obsolete) A snare for catching birds.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

scrap (third-person singular simple present scraps, present participle scrapping, simple past and past participle scrapped)

1. (transitive) To discard.
2. (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
3. (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
4. (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
5. (transitive) To make into scrap.

Derived terms

• scrapper

Translations

Etymology 2

Unknown

Noun

scrap (plural scraps)

1. A fight, tussle, skirmish.

   We got in a little scrap over who should pay the bill.

Translations

Verb

scrap (third-person singular simple present scraps, present participle scrapping, simple past and past participle scrapped)

1. to fight

Translations

Anagrams

• APCRs, Carps, RSPCA, carps, craps, parcs, pracs, scarp