Litter
['lɪtə] or ['lɪtɚ]
Definition
(noun.) conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers.
(noun.) the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal.
(noun.) rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places).
(verb.) give birth to a litter of animals.
(verb.) make a place messy by strewing garbage around.
(verb.) strew; 'Cigar butts littered the ground'.
Typed by Brian--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.
(n.) Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.
(n.) Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish.
(n.) Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter.
(n.) The young brought forth at one time, by a sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig.
(v. t.) To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
(v. t.) To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
(v. i.) To produce a litter.
Typed by Doreen
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Vehicle with a bed (borne by hand).[2]. Bedding of straw, hay, &c.[3]. Things negligently scattered.[4]. Brood.
v. a. [1]. Cover with straw, hay, &c., for bedding.[2]. Cover with things negligently scattered.[3]. Give birth to (said of quadrupeds), bring forth.
Editor: Roxanne
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Scatter, mislay, discompose, disorder, derange
ANT:Clear, clean, order, lay, methodize, arrange
Checker: Mandy
Definition
n. a heap of straw &c. for animals to lie upon: materials for a bed: any scattered collection of objects esp. of little value: a vehicle containing a bed for carrying about a hospital stretcher: a brood of small quadrupeds.—v.t. to cover or supply with litter: to scatter carelessly about: to give birth to (said of small animals).—v.i. to produce a litter or brood.—p.adj. Litt′ered.
Checked by Dale
Examples
- Scraps of old copy-books and exercises litter the dirty floor. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I shall find the means I want for keeping it safe and dry in its hiding-place, among the litter of old things in Mrs. Yolland's kitchen. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- They found Winifred at the lodge admiring the litter of purebred white puppies. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Virginia squatters) added, we select the black members of a litter for raising, as they alone have a good chance of living. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- I had a steamer stop at the nearest point possible, and was carried to it on a litter. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Nay, let them place him in my litter, said Rebecca; I will mount one of the palfreys. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Silas receives one from his hand, which Venus takes from a wonderful litter in a drawer, and putting on his spectacles, reads: '“Mr Venus,”' 'Yes. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The place in front was littered with straw where the vans had been laden and rolled off. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The carpet round his chair was littered with cigarette-ends and with the early editions of the morning papers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- His weapons and shields and other little store of treasures were littered about. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- He took it, standing at the littered bar, and looked loweringly at a man who stood where Riderhood had stood that early morning. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The desks were littered with catkins, hazel and willow, which the children had been sketching. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They went into a dingy room lined with books and littered with papers, where there was a blazing fire. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It was a desert, weed-grown waste, littered thickly with stones the size of a man's fist. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Checker: Mandy