Betydelse av scrap på svenska

• 0 to not continue with a system or plan:

  • They're considering scrapping the tax and raising the money in other ways.

  • We scrapped our plans for a trip to France.

  • Hundreds of nuclear weapons have been scrapped.

• 1 to have a fight or an argument

• 2 old cars and machines or pieces of metal, etc. that are not now needed but have parts that can be used to make other things:

  • scrap iron/metal

  • We sold our old car for scrap.

• 3 a small piece of something or a small amount of information:

  • Do you have a scrap of paper I could write on?

  • I've read every scrap of information I can find on the subject.

  • There's not a scrap of (= no) evidence to suggest that he committed the crime.

  • We give all our scraps to our cat.

• 4 a fight or argument, especially a quick, noisy one about something not important:

  • A couple of kids were having a scrap in the street.

• 5 to get rid of something no longer useful or wanted:

  • Over 60% of all Georgians want to keep the present flag and only 29% want to scrap it.

• 6 old or used material, esp. metal, that has been collected in one place, often in order to be treated so that it can be used again:

  • He was charged with stealing copper tubing, which he then sold as scrap metal.

• 7 a small and often irregular piece of something, or a small amount of something:

  • He jotted it down on a scrap of paper.

  • [ pl ] She picked up scraps of information about her husband’s whereabouts, but nothing definite.

• 8 to decide not to continue with an activity or plan:

  • The bank has scrapped its plans for a property division.

• 9 to get rid of something that is no longer useful or wanted, especially so that its parts can be used:

  • The car would have cost so much to repair that I decided to scrap it.

• 10 old material, especially metal, that can be sold and used again:

  • scrap metal

  • send/use sth for scrap The building materials were sent for scrap.

  • a scrap dealer