Difference between Trash and Scrap

What is the difference between Trash and Scrap?

Trash as a noun is useless things to be discarded while Scrap as a noun is a (small) leftover piece.

Trash

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Useless things to be discarded A container into which things are discarded Something of poor quality Lower class people (as in white trash) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To discard. To make into a mess. To beat soundly in a game. To disrespect someone or something

Example sentence: I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

Scrap

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A (small) leftover piece.(usually plural) leftover food.Discarded material (especially metal), junk.A fight, tussle, skirmish.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to discardto scrapbook; to create scrapbooksto dispose at the scrapyardto make into scrapto fight

Example sentence: Wherever you repress people, they get hold of a crayon and a bit of scrap paper, and they chronicle their lives and their existence and their history.

We hope you now know whether to use Trash or Scrap in your sentence.

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