Scrap vs Beef - What's the difference?
scrap | beef |
A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
* De Quincey
(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
(uncountable) The meat from a cow, bull or other bovines.
# The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
(uncountable) Bovine animals.
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A single bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
a grudge (+ with )
(slang, uncountable) muscle, size, strength
(slang, uncountable) essence, content
To complain.
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To add weight or strength to, usually as beef up.
(slang) To fart.
(slang) To feud.
(intransitive, chiefly, Yorkshire) To cry
Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
Producing]] or known for raising lots of [[#Noun, beef.
Consisting]] of or containing [[#Noun, beef as an ingredient.
In transitive terms the difference between scrap and beef
is that scrap is to make into scrap while beef is to add weight or strength to, usually as beef up.In intransitive terms the difference between scrap and beef
is that scrap is to scrapbook; to create scrapbooks while beef is to complain.As an adjective beef is
being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.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
Derived terms
* scrap paper * scrapbook * scrapheap * scrappy * scrapyardVerb
(scrapp)Derived terms
* scrapperEtymology 2
Verb
(scrapp)Anagrams
* English terms with multiple etymologiesbeef
English
(wikipedia beef)Noun
- I love eating beef .
- lean finely textured beef
- boneless lean beef trimmings
- Do you want to raise beeves ?
- He has a beef with anyone who tells him otherwise.
- He has beef with anyone who tells him otherwise.
- Put some beef into it! We've got to get the car over the bump.
- We've got to get some beef into the enforcement provisions of that law.
- The beef of his paper was a long rant about government.
Synonyms
* (meat of a cow)Hyponyms
* (meat of a cow) vealDerived terms
* beefcake * beef jerky * beef on weck * beefsteak * beef stew * lean finely textured beef * boneless lean beef trimmings * beefy * bully beef * corned beef * where's the beef?See also
* beefwoodVerb
(en verb)- Since you stopped running, you are really beefing out.
- Ugh, who just beefed in here?
- Those two are beefing right now - best you stay out of it for now.
- David was beefing last night after Ruth told him off
Derived terms
* beef up * beef outAdjective
(-)- We bought three beef calves this morning.
- beef farms
- beef country
- beef stew