crumb vs scrap

crumb

noun
  • A bit, small amount. 

  • A mixture of sugar, cocoa and milk, used to make industrial chocolate. 

  • A nobody; a worthless person. 

  • A small piece of other material, such as rubber. 

  • A body louse (Pediculus humanus). 

  • The soft internal portion of bread, surrounded by crust. 

  • A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread). 

verb
  • To cover with crumbs. 

  • To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; to crumble. 

scrap

noun
  • The smallest amount. 

  • Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades. 

  • A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion. 

  • A fight, tussle, skirmish. 

  • The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat. 

  • Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk. 

  • A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips. 

  • A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang. 

  • Leftover food. 

verb
  • To discard. 

  • To make into scrap. 

  • to fight 

  • To stop working on indefinitely. 

  • To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks. 

  • To dispose of at a scrapyard. 

How often have the words crumb and scrap occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )