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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)

  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

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snippet

English

Etymology

From snip +? -et. Compare snippock.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?sn?p?t/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?sn?p?t/, [?sn?p??(?)t?]
  • Rhymes: -?p?t

Noun

snippet (plural snippets)

  1. A small part of something, such as a song or fabric; sample.
    From the snippet I heard of their rehearsal, they sound pretty good.
    • 1902, Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester:
      He cut his coats without waste; according to his embroidered cloth, they were very small ends and snippets that lay about upon the table []
  2. (computing) A text file containing a relatively small amount of code, useless by itself, along with instructions for inserting that code into a larger codebase.

Synonyms

  • (small part): excerpt

Derived terms

  • in-snippet
  • snippet journalism
  • snippety

Translations

Verb

snippet (third-person singular simple present snippets, present participle snippeting or (nonstandard) snippetting, simple past and past participle snippeted or (nonstandard) snippetted)

  1. (transitive, often computing) To produce a snippet (small part) of; to excerpt.
    We snippeted the blog posts for display on the home page.
  2. To make small cuts, to snip, particularly with scissors.
    • 1902, Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester:
      All day long while the light lasted he sewed and snippetted []

Usage notes

  • Doubled ‘tt’ is incorrect per standard spelling rules, but reasonably common.

Synonyms

  • (tiny part): excerpt

References

  • snippet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • steppin'

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