Garbage
['gɑːbɪdʒ] or ['ɡɑrbɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) a receptacle where waste can be discarded; 'she tossed the moldy bread into the garbage'.
(noun.) food that is discarded (as from a kitchen).
Typed by Alphonse--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome.
(v. t.) To strip of the bowels; to clean.
Checked by Lemuel
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Refuse (of flesh), offal.
Typist: Veronica
Definition
n. refuse as the bowels of an animal: any worthless matter.
Checker: Ophelia
Unserious Contents or Definition
To see heaps of garbage in your dreams, indicates thoughts of social scandal and unfavorable business of every character. For females this dream is ominous of disparagement and desertion by lovers.
Edited by Caleb
Examples
- They are a garbage, Eladio told him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In Columbus, Ohio, garbage is used as a source of revenue; the grease from the garbage being sold for soap making, and the tankage (Section 188) for fertilizer. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The fats which go to waste in our garbage could be made a source of income, not only to the housewife, but to the city. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The subsistence which they find there is so scanty, that they are eager to fish up the nastiest garbage thrown overboard from any European ship. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Went to Westminster School as a King's Scholar, when I was principally living on garbage, and sleeping in market baskets. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Clearly, he is only a garbage of what he once was. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- They are a garbage, Eladio told him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In Columbus, Ohio, garbage is used as a source of revenue; the grease from the garbage being sold for soap making, and the tankage (Section 188) for fertilizer. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The fats which go to waste in our garbage could be made a source of income, not only to the housewife, but to the city. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The subsistence which they find there is so scanty, that they are eager to fish up the nastiest garbage thrown overboard from any European ship. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Went to Westminster School as a King's Scholar, when I was principally living on garbage, and sleeping in market baskets. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Clearly, he is only a garbage of what he once was. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Editor: Oswald