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Meanings of scraps in English

Portuguese
resíduos
Catalan
deixalles

Food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

resíduos
Usage of scraps in English
1
Jan 2007 - Parliament scraps old constitution and adopts new interim constitution.
Reuters
2
A small number wear scraps of what look like box-fresh military fatigues.
The Irish Times
3
Today, whole families crowd beneath whatever shelter they could build from scraps.
Radio NZ
4
Place barrels in different parts of the camp for refuse and scraps.
Camping For Boys
5
What scraps they leave go to Doctor Grishkin in return for absolution.
The Centauri Device
6
And the water down there carries off all the shells and scraps.
Idle Hour Stories
7
These were some of the scraps of the conversation of that group.
Tales from Bohemia
8
The Gideon Bible, scraps of paper sticking out from the red-edged pages.
The Quiet Earth
9
On the same day I received from him the following additional scraps.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 / With His Letters and Journals
10
Just go on acquiring little scraps of data until it means something.
Broken angels
11
Another Onion-like headline: newly minted billionaire is spinning eBay scraps into gold.
The Irish Times
12
She tore the letter into scraps which she tossed out the port-hole.
Parrot & Co.
13
Amid the scraps of the Marseillaise which he was singing, he shouted:-
Les Misérables
14
Get in there now and see if they left us any scraps.
Brain jack
15
And it is valuable because it preserves scraps of works now lost.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
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The men were hardly recognizable, but the scraps of clothing looked Spanish.
Christopher Columbus
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