Dictionary Definition
garbage
Noun
2 a worthless message [syn: drivel]
3 a receptacle where garbage is discarded; "she
tossed the moldy bread into the garbage"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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any leftover waste or scraps
- trreq Albanian
- Arabic: (rubāla) , (nufāya)
- trreq Armenian
- Bulgarian: отпадъци (otpadatsi) , смет (smet) , боклук (bokluk)
- Chinese: 垃圾 (lājī)
- Dutch: huisvuil
- trreq Esperanto
- Finnish: roskat, jätteet, jäte
- French: ordures
- Georgian: ნარჩენები (narčenebi, ნაგავი (nagavi)
- German: Abfall
- Greek: απορρίματα p
- trreq Hebrew
- Hindi: कचरा (kačrā)
- Hungarian: szemét, hulladék
- Italian: immondizia
- Japanese: 廃物 (はいぶつ, haibutsu)
- Korean: 쓰레기 (sseuregi)
- Latin: purgamentum , quisquiliae f|p
- trreq Latvian
- trreq Lithuanian
- Marathi: कचरा (kačrā)
- trreq Mongolian
- trreq Old English
- Portuguese: lixo
- Russian: отброс, мусор
- Spanish: basura
- Telugu: చెత్త (chetta)
- Thai: (gàak)
- trreq Turkish
See also
Extensive Definition
Garbage may refer to:
- Waste,
also known as trash or junk unwanted or undesired material
- Food waste (in American English)
- Waste management, collection, transport, processing or disposal of waste
- Garbage
(band), a rock music band
- Garbage (album), the band's debut album
- Garbage
(computer science)
- discarded memory objects in garbage collection memory management
- data that has been received over a comm link that is garbled due to some transmission error
- Garbage (Autechre EP), mini-album by the band Autechre
- "Garbage" (song), a song by TISM
- "Garbage", a song by Dir en grey, from the album Withering to Death.
- "Garbage!", a song by Bill Steele
See also
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
bilge,
bilgewater, bones, carrion, chaff, crap, culm, deadwood, debris, detritus, dishwater, ditchwater, draff, dregs, dross, dust, filings, filth, gash, hogwash, husks, junk, kelter, leavings, lees, litter, muck, offal, offscourings, orts, parings, potsherds, rags, raspings, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, rubble, scourings, scrap iron,
scraps, scum, scurf, sewage, sewerage, shards, shavings, slack, slag, slop, slops, slough, stubble, sweepings, swill, tares, trash, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, weeds