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n. a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold

chip, bit, fleck, splinter, sliver, flake, flinders

n. a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye"

adj. thrown away; "wearing someone's cast-off clothes"; "throwaway children living on the streets"; "salvaged some thrown-away furniture"

ribbon

n. any long object resembling a thin line; "a mere ribbon of land"; "the lighted ribbon of traffic"; "from the air the road was a grey thread"; "a thread of smoke climbed upward"

end

n. either extremity of something that has length; "the end of the pier"; "she knotted the end of the thread"; "they rode to the end of the line"

part, piece

n. a portion of a natural object; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite"

piece

n. a separate part of a whole; "an important piece of the evidence"

part, portion

n. something less than the whole of a human artifact; "the rear part of the house"; "glue the two parts together"

otiose, ineffectual, futile, unavailing

adj. producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt"

unprofitable, inutile

adj. not worth using

unserviceable, unusable, unuseable

adj. not capable of being used

lump, hunk

n. a large piece of something without definite shape; "a hunk of bread"; "a lump of coal"

draw, lot

n. anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random; "the luck of the draw"; "they drew lots for it"

whole, unit

n. an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; "how big is that part compared to the whole?"; "the team is a unit"

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