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SCRAPS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
Synonyms:
food waste; garbage; refuse; scraps
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("scraps" is a kind of...):
waste; waste material; waste matter; waste product (any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb scrap
Context examples:
Aylward and Johnston had been engaged in throwing light tufts of grass into the air to gauge the wind force, and a hoarse whisper passed down the ranks from the file-leaders to the men, with scraps of advice and admonition.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There were no signs, however, of any ashes or scraps.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I said, what a set of humbugs we were in general, and I showed you the scraps of the Prince's nails to prove it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Two or three of the gentlemen sat near him, and I caught at times scraps of their conversation across the room.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He had been listening at the galley door, but he now came out, ostensibly to fling some scraps over the side, but obviously to see the killing he was certain would take place.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It was but a word or two that I could catch, and yet I gathered some important news, for besides other scraps that tended to the same purpose, this whole clause was audible: Not another man of them'll jine.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
All the paper that I possess consists of five old note-books and a lot of scraps, and I have only the one stylographic pencil; but so long as I can move my hand I will continue to set down our experiences and impressions, for, since we are the only men of the whole human race to see such things, it is of enormous importance that I should record them whilst they are fresh in my memory and before that fate which seems to be constantly impending does actually overtake us.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
How it ever came about that the Doctor began to read out scraps of the famous Dictionary, in these walks, I never knew; perhaps he felt it all the same, at first, as reading to himself.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Scraps of popular songs were chorused with an enthusiasm which was a strange prelude to a scientific lecture, and there was already a tendency to personal chaff which promised a jovial evening to others, however embarrassing it might be to the recipients of these dubious honors.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I accustomed myself to giving her, as it were quite casually, little scraps of useful information, or sound opinion—and she started from them when I let them off, as if they had been crackers.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
