Scrapyard vs Scrap - What's the difference?
scrapyard | scrap |
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
Scrap is a derived term of scrapyard.
As nouns the difference between scrapyard and scrap
is that scrapyard is a junkyard, a place where scrap is stored, discarded or resold while scrap is a (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.As a verb scrap is
to discard.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