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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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jot
English
Etymology
From Latin i?ta, from Ancient Greek ???? (iôta). Doublet of iota.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /d??t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
jot (plural jots)
- Iota; the smallest letter or stroke of any writing.
- 1904, Bliss Carman, “Christmas Eve at St. Kavin’s” in Pipes of Pan: Songs from a Northern Garden, Boston: L.C. Page, p. 107,[1]
- Of old, men said, “Sin not;
- By every line and jot
- Ye shall abide; man’s heart is false and vile.”
- 1904, Bliss Carman, “Christmas Eve at St. Kavin’s” in Pipes of Pan: Songs from a Northern Garden, Boston: L.C. Page, p. 107,[1]
- A small amount, bit; the smallest amount.
- He didn't care a jot for his work.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, 3rd edition, p. 159,[2]
- After this I spent a great deal of Time and Pains to make me an Umbrella; I was indeed in great want of one, and had a great mind to make one; I had seen them made in the Brasils, where they are very useful in the great Heats which are there: And I felt the Heats every jot as great here, and greater too, being nearer the Equinox […]
- 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Chapter 8,[3]
- “What does that matter? Arsenic would put poor Emily out of the way just as well as strychnine. If I’m convinced he did it, it doesn’t matter a jot to me how he did it.”
- (obsolete) A moment, an instant.
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, Amoretti in Kenneth J. Larson (ed.), Amoretti and Epithalamion: A Critical Edition, Tempe, AZ: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1997, Sonnet LVII, p. 91,[4]
- So weake my powres, so sore my wounds appeare,
- that wonder is how I should liue a iot,
- seeing my hart through launched euery where
- with thousand arrowes, which your eies haue shot:
- So weake my powres, so sore my wounds appeare,
- 1728, Lewis Theobald, Double Falshood: or, the Distrest Lovers, London: J. Watts, Act I, Scene 1, p. 12,[5]
- Making my Death familiar to my Tongue
- Digs not my Grave one Jot before the Date.
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, Amoretti in Kenneth J. Larson (ed.), Amoretti and Epithalamion: A Critical Edition, Tempe, AZ: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1997, Sonnet LVII, p. 91,[4]
- A brief and hurriedly written note.
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 53:
- "I say, it is no uneven jot, to pass from the more faint and obscure examples of Spermatical life to the more considerable effects of general Motion in Minerals, Metalls, and sundry Meteors ..."
- 1920, Robert Nichols, “Sonnets to Aurelia, IV” in Aurelia and Other Poems, London: Chatto & Windus, p. 29,[6]
- “Lover,” you say; “how beautiful that is,
- That little word!” […]
- Yes, it is beautiful. I have marked it long,
- Long in my dusty head its jot secreted,
- Yet my heart never knew this word a song
- Till in the night softly by you repeated.
- “Lover,” you say; “how beautiful that is,
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 53:
Synonyms
- (small amount): see also Thesaurus:modicum.
Derived terms
- every jot and tittle
- not a jot or tittle
Translations
See also
- tittle
Verb
jot (third-person singular simple present jots, present participle jotting, simple past and past participle jotted)
- (usually with "down") To write quickly.
- Tell me your order, so I can jot it down.
Derived terms
- jot down
Translations
Anagrams
- OJT, OTJ
Central Franconian
Alternative forms
- jott (westernmost Ripuarian)
- got (northern Moselle Franconian)
- gut (southern Moselle Franconian)
Etymology
From Old High German guod, northern variant of guot, from Proto-Germanic *g?daz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jo?t/
Adjective
jot (masculine jode, feminine jot, comparative besser, superlative et beste)
- (most of Ripuarian) good
Ingrian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *jo. Cognate to Finnish jotta.
Conjunction
jot
- so that, in order that
Luxembourgish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jo?t/, /?o?t/
Verb
jot
- inflection of joen:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Rayón Zoque
Noun
jot
- bird
Derived terms
- jot?une
See also
- jotjot
References
- Harrison, Roy; B. de Harrison, Margaret; López Juárez, Francisco; Ordoñes, Cosme (1984) Vocabulario zoque de Rayón (Serie de diccionarios y vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 28)?[7] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 10
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