Scrap vs Swatch - What's the difference?
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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
A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth or a similar material.
To create a swatch.
Scrap is a related term of swatch.
As nouns the difference between scrap and swatch
is that scrap is a (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion or scrap can be a fight, tussle, skirmish while swatch is a piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth or a similar material.As verbs the difference between scrap and swatch
is that scrap is to discard or scrap can be to fight while swatch is to create a swatch.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 etymologiesswatch
English
Noun
(es)- He held a swatch of the wallpaper up to see if the colors would match the room.
Verb
- Swatching is important in knitting to obtain the correct gauge.
