different between crowbar vs scrap

English

Etymology

From crow (“crow (bird)" also "metal lever, crowbar”) +? bar, probably because the forked end looks like a crow's foot.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?o??b??/

Noun

crowbar (plural crowbars)

1. An iron or steel bar, often with a flattened end which may also be hook-shaped, to be used as a lever to manually force things apart.
2. An electrical circuit that prevents an overvoltage from causing damage.
3. A type of cocktail made with only Crown Royal whiskey and lemon lime soda.

Synonyms

• jemmy, jimmy, nail bar, prybar, pinchbar

Derived terms

• crowbar hotel

Translations

Verb

crowbar (third-person singular simple present crowbars, present participle crowbarring, simple past and past participle crowbarred)

1. (transitive) To use force to move. To prise.

Translations

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

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Anagrams

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