Englisches Wort des Tages für Fortgeschrittene
scrapDefinitionen
| Englisch > Deutsch | |
| scrap | |
| 1. Substantiv: | |
| 2. [1] das Stückchen, der Fetzen | |
| 3. [2] pl.: (Speise-) Reste | |
| 4. [3] das Altmaterial, das Altmetall, der Schrott, der Abfall | |
| Englisch > Englisch | |
| scrap | |
| 1. subst. A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion. |  |
| I found a scrap of cloth to patch the hole. | |
| 2. subst. (usually in the plural) Leftover food. | |
| Give the scraps to the dogs and watch them fight. | |
| 3. subst. The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat. | |
| pork scraps | |
| 4. subst. Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk. | |
| That car isn't good for anything but scrap. | |
| 5. subst. (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Norte gang. | |
| 6. v. To discard. | |
| 7. v. (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely. | |
| 8. v. (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks. | |
| 9. v. To dispose of at a scrapyard. | |
| 10. v. To make into scrap. | |
| 11. subst. A fight, tussle, skirmish. | |
| We got in a little scrap over who should pay the bill. | |
| 12. v. to fight | |
Beispielsätze
| There is not a scrap of furniture left. I figure, if we can find a lot of gold-plated stuff, we can scrap it all off and collect a mint. Finally the scrap fizzled out and both returned to mother, who simply looked up, blinking against the strong light. It seems fitting that, as reports have made clear this week, British manufacturing is at its nadir and instead of making new ships, we know only how to scrap them. No more will we try to regain lost territory and see our friends and allies suffer the destruction which our forefathers saw too much of and whose hearts were saddened to view the beauty that once was, lying crumpled in a pile of stone and dust with only the plaintiff cries of hungry children pleading for a scrap of food from anyone who passes by and then see them die the delayed and decaying dry death of diseased starvation. |
Die vorherigen Wörter ansehen
| wilful | discreetly | barge | grapevine |
| bashing | tearful | summing | boils |
| platonic | payroll | shortest | skateboard |
| rosaline | handover | well-meaning | fervour |
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