Litter vs. Rubbish

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Litternoun

(countable) A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.

Litternoun

The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.

Litternoun

(uncountable) Material used as bedding for animals.

Litternoun

(uncountable) Collectively, items discarded on the ground.

Litternoun

(uncountable) Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray

Litternoun

(uncountable) Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.

Litternoun

A covering of straw for plants.

Litterverb

(intransitive) To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).

Litterverb

(transitive) To scatter carelessly about.

Litterverb

(transitive) To strew (a place) with scattered articles.

Litterverb

(transitive) To give birth to, used of animals.

Litterverb

(intransitive) To produce a litter of young.

Litterverb

(transitive) To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.

Litterverb

(intransitive) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.

Litternoun

A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.

Litternoun

Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.

Litternoun

Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish.

Litternoun

Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter.

Litternoun

The young brought forth at one time, by a cat, dog, sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig.

Litterverb

To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.

Litterverb

To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.

Litterverb

To give birth to; to bear; - said of brutes, esp. those which produce more than one at a birth, and also of human beings, in abhorrence or contempt.

Litterverb

To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.

Litterverb

To produce a litter.

Litternoun

the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal

Litternoun

rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)

Litternoun

conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers

Litternoun

material used to provide a bed for animals

Litterverb

strew;

Litterverb

make a place messy by strewing garbage around

Litterverb

give birth to a litter of animals

Litternoun

rubbish such as paper, cans, and bottles left lying in an open or public place

Litternoun

an untidy collection of things lying about

Litternoun

a number of young animals born to an animal at one time

Litternoun

absorbent material, typically in granular form, used to line a shallow receptacle in which a cat can urinate and defecate when indoors

Litternoun

straw or other plant matter used as bedding for animals

Litternoun

decomposing but recognizable leaves and other debris forming a layer on top of the soil, especially in forests

Litternoun

a structure used to transport people, containing a bed or seat enclosed by curtains and carried on men's shoulders or by animals.

Litternoun

a framework with a couch for transporting sick or wounded people.

Litterverb

make (a place or area) untidy with rubbish or a large number of objects left lying about

Litterverb

leave (rubbish or a number of objects) lying untidily in a place

Litterverb

fill with examples of a particular thing, typically something bad or unpleasant

Litterverb

provide (a horse or other animal) with litter as bedding.

Litter

Litter consists of waste products that have been discarded incorrectly, without consent, at an unsuitable location. Litter can also be used as a verb; to litter means to drop and leave objects, often man-made, such as aluminum cans, paper cups, food wrappers, cardboard boxes or plastic bottles on the ground, and leave them there indefinitely or for other people to dispose of as opposed to disposing of them correctly.

Rubbishnoun

Garbage, junk, refuse, trash, waste.

Rubbishnoun

Items of low quality.

Rubbishnoun

Nonsense.

Rubbishnoun

(archaic) Debris or ruins of buildings.

Rubbishadjective

Exceedingly bad; awful.

Rubbishinterjection

Used to express that something is exceedingly bad, awful, or terrible.

Rubbishinterjection

Used to express that what was recently said is nonsense or untrue; balderdash!, nonsense!

Rubbishverb

To criticize, to denigrate, to denounce, to disparage.

Rubbishnoun

Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; débris.

Rubbishadjective

Of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish; trashy.

Rubbishnoun

worthless material that is to be disposed of

Rubbishnoun

nonsensical talk or writing

Rubbishverb

attack strongly

Rubbishnoun

waste material; refuse or litter

Rubbishnoun

material that is considered unimportant or valueless

Rubbishnoun

absurd, nonsensical, or worthless talk or ideas

Rubbishverb

criticize severely and reject as worthless

Rubbishadjective

very bad; worthless or useless

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