Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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scrap

/ˈskɹæp/ noun, verb

Forms scraps scrapping scrapped

  1. noun A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion. “I found a scrap of cloth to patch the hole.”
  2. noun The smallest amount. “I don't care a scrap.”
  3. noun (usually in the plural) Leftover food. “Give the scraps to the animals: any meat to the dogs, and the rest to the hogs.”
  4. noun The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
  5. noun (uncountable) Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk. “That car isn't good for anything but scrap.”
  6. noun (UK, in the plural) A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
  7. noun (uncountable) Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades.
  8. noun (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.
  9. verb (transitive) To discard; to get rid of.
  10. verb (transitive) To stop working on (a project or plan) indefinitely.
  11. verb (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
  12. verb (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
  13. verb (transitive) To make into scrap.
  14. noun A fight, tussle, skirmish. “We got in a little scrap over who should pay the bill.”
  15. verb to fight

Synonyms

scraplet snippet bit chip chunk tranche clip crumb crumbling cutting flake fleak fragment hunk lump mammock ort piece piecemeal portion fleck rubbish trash fight fighting combat junk quarrel dispute argufy

Etymology

From Middle English scrappe, from Old Norse skrap, from skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Germanic *skrapōną, *skrepaną (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skreb-, *skrep- (“to engrave”). Cf. Swedish skräp (“garbage”).

Perhaps from the obsolete colloquial meaning "sinister plot, scheme, villainy", or a dialectal variant of scrape.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
  2. noun Specifically, a fragment of something written or printed; a brief excerpt; an unconnected extract.

Etymology [OE. scrappe, fr. Icel. skrap trifle, cracking. See Scrape, v. t.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “scrap”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details