Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Food wastes, as from a kitchen.
- n. Refuse; trash.
- n. A place or receptacle where rubbish is discarded: tossed the apple core into the garbage.
- n. Worthless or nonsensical matter; rubbish: Their advice turned out to be nothing but garbage.
- n. Inferior or offensive literary or artistic material.
- n. Computer Science Incorrect, meaningless, or unwanted data.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Originally, the entrails of fowls, and afterward of any animal; now, offal or refuse organic matter in general; especially, the refuse animal and vegetable matter from a kitchen.
- n. Hence Any worthless, offensive matter.
- To eviscerate; disembowel; gut; clean by removing the entrails of.
Wiktionary
- n. Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
- n. Nonsense; gibberish.
- n. Something or someone worthless.
- n. computing Data that cannot or will not be accessed by a program, but are still taking up space.
- n. computing Data that make no sense to the program trying to use them.
- v. transitive, obsolete To eviscerate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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. To strip of the bowels; to clean.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a worthless message
- n. food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
- n. a receptacle where waste can be discarded
Etymologies
- Middle English "the offal of a fowl, giblets, kitchen waste", originally "refuse, what is purged away" from Old French garber "to refine, make neat or clean", of Germanic origin, akin to Old High German garawan "to prepare, make ready", Old English ġearwian ("to make ready, adorn"). More at garb, yare, gear (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, offal from fowls. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“When I first heard the phrase 'garbage patch,' I imagined something dense," he says.”
“Many times you'll hear the expression "garbage in, garbage out" when organizations talk about data in their CRM system.”
“TM: The whole notion is that, with the right technology, there's value to be had from what we call garbage, that is taken to landfill -- if you can capture, sort, clean, and reintroduce it to the supply chain.”
“Presumably ownership of the garbage is then with the City.”
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“Otherwise sealing the garbage is about the only way to go.”
I have a GREAT German Shorthair whom i love to death. He is my right hand man, my best friend.
“Middle East, or the opportunities those wars provided for the oil-producing countries to organize and establish monopoly prices, the current price ratio between the monopoly price of oil and the price of sugar on what we call the garbage dump of the world market .... [changes thought] A large part of the sugar in the world is marketed through agreements, through prices set by agreement and not by the world market.”
“He says the trash can be turned into treasure and he's proving it with what he calls the "garbage bank".”
“This kind of garbage is entirely contrived by the media.”
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“I could care less about Sarah Palin, but this kind of garbage is the reason your party is in tatters.”
“Sadly, this kind of garbage is par for the course in NorCal.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘garbage’.
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Americanism
American words
finest, fast food, acclimate, aluminum, alphabetize, airplane, affirmative action, arugula, backhoe, bangs, base board, bayou and 162 more...
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webdev
random webdev lingo used primarily in computer programming.
( open list, randomness, technical jargon, geek speak )
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ajax, user, admin, frontend, backend, database, sql, protocol, call, dom, layout, ui and 439 more... -
That STINKS!
Words having to do with terrible smells.
odor, putrid, stank, stink, smell, horrid, foul, putrecence, awful, rotting, garbage, toilet and 14 more...
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disinformation
words meaning bad or not real data
foo, gobbledygook, spin, blacklist, corrupt, fraudulent, debauched, nefarious, untrustworthy, spam, deranged, mental and 22 more...
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Unwanted matter
gangue, dross, slag, scoria, refuse, trash, cinder, ashes, leavings, recrement, debris, waste and 37 more...
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Anglo-Norman
English words of Norman-French origin.
wage, wait, war, wicket, warranty, guarantee, guard, warden, guardian, glamour, grammar, catch and 30 more...
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Gee, that's hard and soft!
Words that contain both a "hard G" and a "soft G".
gauge, garage, gorge, gorgeous, gigantic, grudge, glurge, begrudge, garbage, grunge, engage, disgorge and 24 more...
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Expressions of disbelief or disagreement
bollocks, come off it, rubbish, as if, bullshit, guff, i don't believe it, are you mad, tosh, nonsense, garbage, bunkum and 58 more...
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ebaysalvageyard
ebay, wood, carved, basket, ebay!, that's, expensive,, sold, junk, cheap, ripoff, snipe and 27 more...
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chefjulianin's Words
high, ice, recipe, bear, bare, lady, food, identity, sudden, spooky, away, cook and 142 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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What Is the Sound of One Hand Typing?
Words you can type with one hand--if you learned how to type formally. Hunt-and-peck method doesn't count. ;-) I'm keeping it to five or more letters to avoid an excessively lengthy list.
<...racecar, start, create, desert, dessert, secret, secrete, sweet, tresses, poppy, puppy, homonym and 141 more...
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junestag's Words
postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
Tweets
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