Defective vs Scrap - What's the difference?
defective | scrap |
Having one or more defects.
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lacking some forms; e.g., having only one tense or being usable only in the third person.
A person considered to be defective.
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A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
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(usually, in the plural) Leftover food.
Discarded material (especially metal), junk.
(ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated to the Norte gang.
The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
To discard.
(of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
To dispose of at a scrapyard.
To make into scrap.
to fight
As an adjective defective
is .As a noun scrap is
a (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion or scrap can be a fight, tussle, skirmish.As a verb scrap is
to discard or scrap can be to fight.defective
English
Adjective
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Usage notes
* Nouns to which "defective" is often applied: merchandise, goods, part, component, product, equipment, gene, unit, construction, design, drug, memory, wiring, machine, device, instrument, hardware, software, vehicle.Synonyms
* faultyNoun
(en noun)citation
See also
*scrap
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) scrappe, from (etyl) skrap, fromNoun
(en noun)- I have no materials — not a scrap .
- I found a scrap of cloth to patch the hole.
- Give the scraps to the dogs and watch them fight.
- That car isn't good for anything but scrap .
- pork scraps