Scrap vs Dot - What's the difference?

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Scrap is a related term of dot.

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.

As an acronym dot is

department of transportation.

scrap

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) scrappe, from (etyl) skrap, from

Noun

(en noun)

A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.

* De Quincey

I have no materials — not a scrap .

I found a scrap of cloth to patch the hole.

(usually, in the plural) Leftover food.

Give the scraps to the dogs and watch them fight.

Discarded material (especially metal), junk.

That car isn't good for anything but scrap .

(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.

pork scraps

Derived terms

* scrap paper * scrapbook * scrapheap * scrappy * scrapyard

Verb

(scrapp)

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.

Derived terms

* scrapper

Etymology 2

Noun

(en noun)

A fight, tussle, skirmish.

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

Verb

(scrapp)

to fight

Anagrams

* English terms with multiple etymologies

dot

English

(wikipedia dot)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A small spot.

a dot of colour

(grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.

A diacritical mark comprised of a small opaque circle above or below any of various letters of the Latin script. Examples include: ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, etc.

(mathematics) A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part, for indicating multiplication or a scalar product, or for various other purposes.

One of the two symbols used in Morse code.

(obsolete) A lump or clot.

Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.

a dot of a child

(cricket, informal) A dot ball.

Synonyms

* (small spot) speck, spot * (at the end of a sentence or abbreviation) full stop (British), period (US), point * (as a diacritic) tittle (over the letters i and j) * (sense) decimal point * (in Morse code) dit

Derived terms

(terms derived from dot) * centered dot, centred dot * connect the dots * dotcom * dot matrix * dot matrix printer * dot product * dottel * dottle * dotty * join the dots * middle dot * off one's dot * on the dot * polka dot * the year dot

Verb

(dott)

To cover with small spots (of some liquid).

His jacket was dotted with splashes of paint.

To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.

Dot your i''s and cross your ''t s.

To mark by means of dots or small spots.

to dot a line

To mark or diversify with small detached objects.

to dot a landscape with cottages

Derived terms

* dot do dot * dot the i's and cross the t's

Preposition

(English prepositions)

Dot product of the previous vector and the following vector.

The work is equal to F dot ?x.

Coordinate terms

* *

Etymology 2

From (etyl) dot.

Alternative forms

* dote

Noun

(en noun)

(US, Louisiana) A dowry.

* 1919 , , (The Moon and Sixpence) ,

"Have you the pictures still?" I asked.

"Yes; I am keeping them till my daughter is of marriageable age, and then I shall sell them. They will be her dot ."

* 1927 , Anna Bowman Dodd, Talleyrand: the Training of a Statesman :

As a bride, Madame de Talleyrand had brought a small dot of fifteen thousand francs to the family fund.

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