How to say "scrap" in Japanese

• スクラップCommon
  nounScrap metal: discarded metal collected for recycling or melting down. A katakana loanword used for this sense of 'scrap'.
  この車くるまはもうすぐスクラップだ。↗

  This car will soon have to go for scrap.
• くずJLPT N2approx.Common
  nounA general word for waste, scrap, or garbage of many kinds, and by extension dregs; it is usually written in kana alone.
  ラップは屑くずだ。↗

  Rap is crap.
• 切り抜ききりぬきCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbA clipping or cutting: a piece cut from a newspaper or the like and kept. This is the 'scrap' of a scrapbook.
  箱ばこの中なかには新聞しんぶんや雑誌ざっしの切り抜きりぬきがあった。↗

  Inside the box were cuttings from newspapers and magazines.
• 断片だんぺんCommon
  nounA fragment or shred: a piece broken off a larger whole, used of physical objects and of intangible things such as memory or information.
  ハードが断片化だんぺんかを起おこしてるみたい。↗

  It looks like your hard disk is fragmented.
• 切れ端きれはしCommon
  nounA cut-off piece or cut end: the scrap left over when cloth, paper, or the like is cut; a physical offcut rather than an abstract fragment.
  少女しょうじょは生地きじの切れ端きれはしで人形にんぎょうを作つくった。↗

  The girl made a doll out of a piece of cloth.

For scrap metal use 「スクラップ」; for waste, garbage, or dregs 「くず」; for clippings such as newspaper cuttings 「切り抜き」; for fragments of a larger whole, concrete or abstract, 断片; for cut-off pieces 「切れ端」.

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• スクラップscrap (metal)
• くずwaste
• 切り抜ききりぬきclipping (of newspaper article, etc.)
• 断片だんぺんfragment
• 切れ端きれはしfragment
• 切れきれpiece
• 端くれはしくれscrap
• つぶしにするto scrap
• ボツるto scrap (work in progress, esp. illustration)
• 反故にするほごにするto throw away as useless
• 取り潰すとりつぶすto dissolve (an organization, company, etc.)
• 端はしodds and ends
• かけらounce (of truth, conscience, etc.)
• 一片いっぺんiota
• 爪の垢つめのあかshred (of decency, etc.)