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scrap
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)
- 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.
- 1852, Thomas De Quincey, Sir William Hamilton (published in Hogg's Instructor)
- (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
- Give the scraps to the dogs and watch them fight.
- The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
- pork scraps
- (uncountable) Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
- (Britain, in the plural) A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
- (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.
- (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)
- (transitive) To discard.
- (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
- (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
- (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
- (transitive) To make into scrap.
Derived terms
- scrapper
Translations
Etymology 2
Unknown
Noun
scrap (plural scraps)
- 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)
- to fight
Translations
Anagrams
- APCRs, Carps, RSPCA, carps, craps, parcs, pracs, scarp
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inch
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?nt?/
- Rhymes: -?nt?
Etymology 1
From Middle English ynche, enche, from Old English ynce, borrowed from Latin uncia (“twelfth part”). Doublet of ounce.
Noun
inch (plural inches)
- A unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot, or exactly 2.54 centimetres.
- (meteorology) The amount of water which would cover a surface to the depth of an inch, used as a measurement of rainfall.
- The amount of an alcoholic beverage which would fill a glass or bottle to the depth of an inch.
- (figuratively) A very short distance.
- "Don't move an inch!"
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ??? (inchi)
- ? Korean: ?? (inchi)
Translations
Verb
inch (third-person singular simple present inches, present participle inching, simple past and past participle inched)
- (intransitive, followed by a preposition) To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).
- Fearful of falling, he inched along the window ledge.
- 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey:
- The window blind had been lowered — Zooey had done all his bathtub reading by the light from the three-bulb overhead fixture—but a fraction of morning light inched under the blind and onto the title page of the manuscript.
- To drive by inches, or small degrees.
- 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy
- He gets too far into the soldier's grace / And inches out my master.
- 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy
- To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- thou
- mil
Etymology 2
From Scottish Gaelic innis
Noun
inch (plural inches)
- (Scotland) A small island
Usage notes
- Found especially in the names of small Scottish islands, e.g. Inchcolm, Inchkeith.
Anagrams
- Ch'in, Chin, chin, ichn-
Middle English
Noun
inch
- Alternative form of ynche
inch From the web:
- = 2.54 centimeters
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