scrapとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

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

名詞

scrap (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 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 animals: any meat to the dogs, and the rest to the hogs.

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.

   That car isn't good for anything but scrap.

5. (UK, in the plural) A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
7. (uncountable) Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades.

   Synonym: trash

8. (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.
9. (obsolete) A snare for catching birds.

派生語

動詞

scrap (三人称単数 現在形 scraps, 現在分詞 scrapping, 過去形および過去分詞形 scrapped)

1. (transitive) To discard.
2. (transitive, of a project または plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
3. (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
4. (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
   • 2020 May 20, John Crosse, “Soon to be gone... but never forgotten”, in Rail, page 63:

     Northern made much of the scrapping of the first of the Pacers (142005), and to date 35 of its Class 142s have been scrapped, with a further 11 off-lease at Gascoigne Wood.

5. (transitive) To make into scrap.
   • 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 165:

     Standing on the mountain above Caerphilly, one may reflect upon the gap where once stood Llanbradach Viaduct, and look near at hand upon the restored ruins of Caerphilly Castle; man labours to rebuild the mediaeval whilst he ruthlessly scraps the modern.

派生語

• scrapper

語源 2

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名詞

scrap (複数形 scraps)

1. A fight, tussle, skirmish.

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

動詞

scrap (三人称単数 現在形 scraps, 現在分詞 scrapping, 過去形および過去分詞形 scrapped)

1. to fight