Litter vs. Waste

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.

Wastenoun

Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.

Wastenoun

Excrement or urine.

Wastenoun

A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.

Wastenoun

A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.

Wastenoun

A large tract of uncultivated land.

Wastenoun

(historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.

Wastenoun

A vast expanse of water.

Wastenoun

A disused mine or part of one.

Wastenoun

The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.

Wastenoun

Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.

Wastenoun

Gradual loss or decay.

Wastenoun

A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away.

Wastenoun

(rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste"

Wastenoun

(legal) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.

Wastenoun

(geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.

Wasteadjective

Uncultivated, uninhabited.

Wasteadjective

Barren; desert.

Wasteadjective

Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.

Wasteadjective

Superfluous; needless.

Wasteadjective

Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

Wasteadjective

Unfortunate; disappointing. en

Wasteverb

(transitive) to devastate, destroy

Wasteverb

(transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.

Wasteverb

To kill; to murder.

Wasteverb

(transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.

Wasteverb

(intransitive) Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.

Wasteverb

(intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.

Wasteverb

(legal) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.

Wasteadjective

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

Wasteadjective

Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.

Wasteadjective

Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.

Wasteverb

To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.

Wasteverb

To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.

Wasteverb

To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.

Wasteverb

To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.

Wasteverb

To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less; - commonly used with away.

Wasteverb

To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; - said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.

Wastenoun

The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc.

Wastenoun

That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness.

Wastenoun

That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.

Wastenoun

Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.

Wastenoun

Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.

Wastenoun

Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.

Wastenoun

any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted;

Wastenoun

useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly;

Wastenoun

the trait of wasting resources;

Wastenoun

an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation;

Wastenoun

(law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect

Wasteverb

spend thoughtlessly; throw away;

Wasteverb

use inefficiently or inappropriately;

Wasteverb

get rid of;

Wasteverb

run off as waste;

Wasteverb

get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing;

Wasteverb

spend extravagantly;

Wasteverb

lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief;

Wasteverb

cause to grow thin or weak;

Wasteverb

devastate or ravage;

Wasteverb

waste away;

Wasteadjective

disposed of as useless;

Wasteadjective

located in a dismal or remote area; desolate;

Wasteverb

use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose

Wasteverb

expend on an unappreciative recipient

Wasteverb

fail to make full or good use of

Wasteverb

deliberately dispose of (surplus stock)

Wasteverb

(of a person or a part of the body) become progressively weaker and more emaciated

Wasteverb

make progressively weaker and more emaciated

Wasteverb

devastate or ruin (a place)

Wasteverb

kill or severely injure (someone)

Wasteverb

(of time) pass away

Wasteadjective

(of a material, substance, or by-product) eliminated or discarded as no longer useful or required after the completion of a process

Wasteadjective

(of an area of land, typically an urban one) not used, cultivated, or built on

Wastenoun

an act or instance of using or expending something carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose

Wastenoun

the gradual loss or diminution of something

Wastenoun

unwanted or unusable material, substances, or by-products

Wastenoun

a large area of barren, typically uninhabited land

Wastenoun

damage to an estate caused by an act or by neglect, especially by a life tenant.

Waste

Waste (or wastes) are unwanted or unusable materials. Waste is any substance which is discarded after primary use, or is worthless, defective and of no use.