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Scrap vs Tittle - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between scrap and tittle

is that scrap is a (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion while tittle is a small, insignificant amount (of something); a vanishing scintilla; a measly crumb; a minute speck.

As a verb scrap

is to discard.

As a proper noun Tittle is

{{surname|lang=en}.

scrap

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) scrappe, from (etyl) skrap, from

Noun

(en noun)
  • A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
  • * De Quincey
    • I have no materials — not a scrap .
    I found a scrap of cloth to patch the hole.
  • (usually, in the plural) Leftover food.
    • Give the scraps to the dogs and watch them fight.
  • Discarded material (especially metal), junk.
    • That car isn't good for anything but scrap .
  • (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.
    • pork scraps
    Derived terms
    * scrap paper * scrapbook * scrapheap * scrappy * scrapyard

    Verb

    (scrapp)
  • 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.
    • Derived terms
    * scrapper

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fight, tussle, skirmish.
    • We got in a little scrap over who should pay the bill.

    Verb

    (scrapp)
  • to fight

    • Anagrams

    * English terms with multiple etymologies

    tittle

    English

    (wikipedia tittle)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small, insignificant amount (of something); a vanishing scintilla; a measly crumb; a minute speck.
  • Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or if a letter-like abbreviation; in particular, the dots over the Latin letters (i) and (j).
  • * 1590 , Bales, The Arte of Brachygraphie (quoted in Daid King's 2001 'The Ciphers of the Monks'):
    • The foure pricks or tittles' are these. The first is a full prick or period. The second is a comma or crooked ' tittle .
  • * 1965 , P. A. Marijnen, The Encyclopedia of the Bible :
    • The words "jot" and "tittle " in this passage refer to diacritic marks, that is, dashes, dots, or commas added to a letter to accentuate the pronunciation.
  • * 1987 , Andrea van Arkel-De Leeuw van Weenen, Möðruvallabók, AM 132 Fol: Index and concordance , page xii:
  • *:: (the page calls both "a superscript sign (hooklike)" and also a diacritical abbreviation of ") "tittles" )
  • * 2008 , Roy Blount, Alphabet juice: the energies, gists, and spirits of letters :
    • A tittle' is more or less the same thing (the dot over an i, for instance), except that it can be traced back to Medieval Latin for a little mark over or under a letter, such as an accent ague or a cedilla. I don't know whether an umlaut is one or two '''tittles'''. Maybe it's a jot and a ' tittle side by side.

    Synonyms

    * See also .

    Related terms

    * iota * titlo

    See also

    * tittle-tattle * title