What's the difference between leftover and scrap?

Leftover


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But this is how we live even before we are forced, through penury to claim: fine dining on stewed leftovers, nursing our one drink on those rare social events, cutting our own hair, patchwork-darned clothes and leaky shoes.
  • (2) If using old leftovers feels a little wartime in its frugality: even better.
  • (3) Photograph: Jonathan Lovekin for the Observer Nigel Slater's cold noodle and tomato salad makes a nice grownup supper with leftovers for the packed lunch.
  • (4) Verdict: Funded by leftovers from the 2010 funding deal, it means no top-slicing from the new licence fee agreement.
  • (5) Those that do exist bear Saudi Arabia's logo, but they are torn and thin – leftovers from a huge aid donation during cyclone Nargis.
  • (6) They weren't aware that MSG was what they'd liked in Japan - but the US Army catering staff noticed that their men enjoyed the leftover ration packs of the demobilised Japanese Army much more than they did their own, and began to ask why.
  • (7) We eat twice a day and snack at tea time, with leftovers and teas always available.
  • (8) Transport of leftover feed from infectious disease (IBD) farms to susceptible flocks on clean premises is believed to have played an important role in the transmission of this disease to new farms and to new areas.
  • (9) Hand washing with soap before meals by all family members protected against cholera (OR = 0.2, 95 percent CI 0.02-0.96), suggesting that persons asymptomatically infected with Vibrio cholerae 01 may have been the initial source for contamination of the leftover foods.
  • (10) Leftover food from the café is given to the “Tumbleweeds”, the bookshop’s resident writers.
  • (11) Consistent with this, was the fact that 37% were unaware of safe methods of disposal of leftover medicines.
  • (12) Then there are the "ethylene absorbing" discs you can place in a bowl to keep your fruit fresh for longer; the polyurethane foam cushions designed to prevent fruit and veg from becoming bruised; and the silicone "food huggers" into which you pop your leftover half a lemon or tomato.
  • (13) If this show wasn’t called Looking, it should have been called Heart to Hearts over Chinese Takeout Leftovers.
  • (14) 8.13pm BST Mary is being extremely naught in stealing Frances' leftovers.
  • (15) In his dust blue suit and shimmering yellow tie, he is rounder than he was in 2008 (eating too many of his children's leftovers).
  • (16) Salmonella infantis and enterotoxin-producing Staphylococcus aureus were both isolated from samples of leftover turkey, and S. infantis was isolated from 18 of 20 stool specimens.
  • (17) The shoot is catered, and afterwards Mom takes the leftovers and passes out the Brie and watercress sandwiches to her friends, shouting, 'Free yuppie food!'
  • (18) "Navalny carefully distanced himself from the shrill, old-guard western-friendly liberals – 'hellish, insane, crazy mass of the leftovers and bread crusts of the democracy movement of the 80s', he called them – who simply participated in Putin's cult of personality in reverse."
  • (19) To buy it from the Guardian Bookshop for £22.50, click here Uyen Luu’s seabass congee Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romas Foord for the Observer With kale, ginger and dill Congee is a soup usually made from leftover cooked rice and is a breakfast favourite in Vietnam.
  • (20) Photograph: Kareem Shaheen for the Guardian The Guardian, the first western media organisation to visit the site of the attack, examined a warehouse and silos directly next to where the missile had landed, and found nothing but an abandoned space covered in dust and half-destroyed silos reeking of leftover grain and animal manure.

Scrap


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
  • (v. t.) Specifically, a fragment of something written or printed; a brief excerpt; an unconnected extract.
  • (v. t.) The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat; as, pork scraps.
  • (v. t.) Same as Scrap iron, below.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is a moment to be grateful for what remains of Labour's hard left: an amendment to scrap the cap was at least tabled by John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn but stood no chance.
  • (2) As calls grew to establish why nobody stepped in to save Daniel, it was also revealed that the boy's headteacher – who saw him scavenging for scraps – has not been disciplined and has been put in charge of a bigger school.
  • (3) That means scrapping David Cameron’s unqualified teacher policy, which has produced a 16% increase in the number of unqualified teachers in our schools.
  • (4) Across a dusty lot sits a heap of scrap metal, patrolled by a couple of emaciated dogs, while a toddler squats in the street, examining the sole of a discarded shoe.
  • (5) Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, confirmed in his first media policy speech yesterday that Labour's plan for independently financed news consortiums would be scrapped .
  • (6) The prison suicide rate, at 120 deaths per 100,000 people, is about 10 times higher than the rate in the general population.” The report calls for a recently revised incentives and earned privileges regime to be scrapped and for an undertaking that prisoners with mental health problems or at known risk of suicide should never be placed in solitary.
  • (7) "They don't go to secondary school – they go out scrapping with horses and carts, and make a living from collecting metal.
  • (8) Clegg has called for a faster process towards increasing the personal tax allowance to £10,000, and the Treasury chief secretary, Danny Alexander, wants higher rate tax relief on pensions to be scrapped.
  • (9) In the interview, he also pledged to scrap the 5% rate of VAT on sanitary products, known as the “tampon tax”.
  • (10) We’ve sent out all the boards and there’s still loads of people flooding in, we don’t know what to do.’ It happened in Leeds North West, too – they started the day, they had so many activists that they went: ‘Right, let’s scrap our whole strategy, we’re going to just print off the electoral register instead’ – and rather than focusing on likely Labour voters, which is what you would normally do, they knocked on all the doors on the electoral register – that’s unheard of.” The seat saw a 14% swing to Labour, overturning a Lib Dem majority of almost 3,000 and replacing it with a 4,000 Labour lead.
  • (11) Wang Yongchen, who runs Green Earth Volunteers, one of China’s oldest environmental groups, cautioned that while the decision to scrap plans for dams on the Nu was a significant triumph, it was not necessarily a permanent one.
  • (12) Service providers say they will have no choice except to charge patients a co-payment for services such as blood tests after the federal government announced in its budget update that it would scrap incentives for pathology services, and reduce bulk billing incentives from 15% of the Medicare benefits schedule fee to 10% for diagnostics.
  • (13) The Times editor, James Harding, recently decided to revive the supplement following reader complaints at his decision to scrap it seven months earlier .
  • (14) Japan scrapped its original plan for the national stadium last month in the face of widespread outrage after costs ballooned to £1.34bn ($2.1bn), nearly twice the original estimates – an unusual move for an Olympic host city this late in the process.
  • (15) Time to scrap all honours everywhere, including UK.” Australians had their chance to ditch the monarchy in 1999.
  • (16) Scrapping the tax cuts for the wealthy alone would be enough to make up for the shortfall in social security; scrapping them entirely would halt the rise in the national debt over the next decade.
  • (17) The following summer, the coastal city Qidong scrapped a pipeline plan after about a thousand protesters stormed government offices and overturned cars.
  • (18) Mention of discrimination on the basis of categories such as ethnicity, migration status, culture, economic situation or age as a protected status were also scrapped from the document, in an attempt to appease the African and Arab groups.
  • (19) The announcement will mean scrapping a review process set up by Labor in October 2012 to examine the cases of 55 mostly Tamil refugees, deemed to be a threat by Asio.
  • (20) In his only specific growth measure, he said Britain's planning laws would have to be scrapped so more housing could be built, vowing to scrap "the suffocating bureaucracy" that he said was holding economic growth back.