Dismantle vs Scrap - What's the difference?
dismantle | scrap |
(originally) To divest, strip of dress or covering.
To remove fittings or furnishings from.
To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.
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A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
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(usually, in the plural) Leftover food.
Discarded material (especially metal), junk.
(ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated to the Norte gang.
The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
To discard.
(of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
To dispose of at a scrapyard.
To make into scrap.
to fight
In transitive terms the difference between dismantle and scrap
is that dismantle is to take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces while scrap is to make into scrap.As verbs the difference between dismantle and scrap
is that dismantle is to divest, strip of dress or covering while scrap is to discard.As a noun scrap is
a (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.dismantle
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Verb
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Derived terms
* dismantlementReferences
*scrap
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) scrappe, from (etyl) skrap, fromNoun
(en noun)- I have no materials — not a scrap .
- I found a scrap of cloth to patch the hole.
- Give the scraps to the dogs and watch them fight.
- That car isn't good for anything but scrap .
- pork scraps