Trash vs. Garbage

By Jaxson

  • Garbage

    Garbage, trash, rubbish, or refuse is waste material that is discarded by humans, usually due to a perceived lack of utility. The term generally does not encompass bodily waste products, purely liquid or gaseous wastes, nor toxic waste products. Garbage is commonly sorted and classified into kinds of material suitable for specific kinds of disposal.

Wikipedia
  • Trash (noun)

    Useless things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.

  • Trash (noun)

    A container into which things are discarded.

  • Trash (noun)

    Something worthless or of poor quality.

  • Trash (noun)

    People of low social status or class. See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.

  • Trash (noun)

    A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.

    “I am Harry Potter trash.”

  • Trash (noun)

    Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.

  • Trash (noun)

    A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.

  • Trash (verb)

    To discard.

  • Trash (verb)

    To make into a mess.

    “The burglars trashed the house.”

  • Trash (verb)

    To beat soundly in a game.

  • Trash (verb)

    To disrespect someone or something

  • Trash (verb)

    To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.

    “to trash the rattoons of sugar cane”

  • Trash (verb)

    To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.

  • Trash (verb)

    To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.

  • Garbage (noun)

    The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.

  • Garbage (noun)

    Food waste material of any kind.

    “Garbage is collected on Tuesdays; rubbish on Fridays”

  • Garbage (noun)

    Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.

    “The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.”

  • Garbage (noun)

    A place or receptacle for waste material.

    “He threw the newspaper into the garbage.”

  • Garbage (noun)

    Nonsense; gibberish.

  • Garbage (noun)

    Something or someone worthless.

  • Garbage (verb)

    to eviscerate

    “disembowel|eviscerate|gut”

Wiktionary
  • Trash (noun)

    waste material; refuse

    “the subway entrance was blocked with trash”

  • Trash (noun)

    cultural items, ideas, or objects of poor quality

    “if they read at all, they read trash”

  • Trash (noun)

    a person or people regarded as being of very low social standing

    “clubs patronized by rock trash”

  • Trash (noun)

    the leaves, tops, and crushed stems of sugar cane, used as fuel.

  • Trash (verb)

    damage or destroy

    “my apartment’s been totally trashed”

  • Trash (verb)

    kill (a file or process) or wipe (a disk)

    “she almost trashed the email window”

  • Trash (verb)

    criticize severely

    “trade associations trashed the legislation as deficient”

  • Trash (verb)

    intoxicated with alcohol or drugs

    “there was booze, but nobody really got trashed”

  • Trash (verb)

    strip (sugar canes) of their outer leaves to ripen them faster.

  • Garbage (noun)

    rubbish or waste, especially domestic refuse

    “a garbage dump”

    “garbage littered the estate”

  • Garbage (noun)

    worthless or meaningless material or ideas; rubbish

    “a store full of overpriced garbage”

  • Garbage (noun)

    unwanted data in a computer’s memory.

Oxford Dictionary

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