scrap

4)	the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap"

Synonyms :

combat fight fighting

See Also:

battle altercate battle fight gunfight brush dogfight fencing in-fighting set-to impact dogfingt affaire_d'honneur blow fistfight banging beating affray brawl cut-and-thrust gang_fight

scrap [v]

1)	dispose of (something useless or old); "trash these old chairs"; "junk an old car"; "scrap your old computer"

Synonyms :

junk trash

See Also:

cast_aside rubbish debris

2)	have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These tewo fellows are always scrapping over something"

Synonyms :

altercate argufy dispute quarrel

See Also:

argue combat battler contravention conflict arguing debate controversialist dustup quarreler brawl spat polemicise fall_out

3)	make into scrap or refuse; "scrap the old airplane and sell the parts"

Synonyms :

See Also:

convert

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

Something written at CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa in the late 1970s. It ran on Interdata and Perkin-Elmer computers and was in use until the late 1980s.

[But what was it?]

(1994-12-15)

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