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Unhealthy vs Scrap - What's the difference?

unhealthy | scrap |

As an adjective unhealthy

is characterized by, or conducive to poor health.

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.

unhealthy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • characterized by, or conducive to poor health
  • The villagers lived in unhealthy surroundings.
  • sick or ill
  • He was an unhealthy child.
  • tending to corrupt
  • He liked unhealthy reading material.
  • characterized by disturbed mental health
  • He had an unhealthy interest in fire.

    Synonyms

    *

    Antonyms

    * healthy

    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