Garbage vs. Refuse

Garbagenoun

(obsolete) The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.

Refuseadjective

Discarded, rejected.

Garbagenoun

Food waste material of any kind.

‘Garbage is collected on Tuesdays; rubbish on Fridays’;

Refusenoun

Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.

Garbagenoun

Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.

‘The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.’;

Refusenoun

(obsolete) refusal

Garbagenoun

A place or receptacle for waste material.

‘He threw the newspaper into the garbage.’;

Refuseverb

(transitive) To decline (a request or demand).

‘My request for a pay rise was refused.’;

Garbagenoun

Nonsense; gibberish.

Refuseverb

(intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.

‘I refuse to listen to this nonsense any more.’; ‘I asked the star if I could have her autograph, but she refused.’;

Garbagenoun

Something or someone worthless.

Refuseverb

(military) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy.

‘to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks’;

Garbageverb

to eviscerate

Refuseverb

To disown.

Garbagenoun

Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome.

Refuseverb

To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.

‘That never yet refused your hest.’;

Garbageverb

To strip of the bowels; to clean.

Refuseverb

To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops ar about to engage the enemy; as, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks.

Garbagenoun

food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

Refuseverb

To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor.

‘The cunning workman never doth refuseThe meanest tool that he may chance to use.’;

Garbagenoun

a worthless message

Refuseverb

To disown.

Garbagenoun

a receptacle where garbage is discarded;

‘she tossed the moldy bread into the garbage’;

Refuseverb

To deny compliance; not to comply.

‘Too proud to ask, too humble to refuse.’; ‘If ye refuse . . . ye shall be devoured with the sword.’;

Garbagenoun

rubbish or waste, especially domestic refuse

‘a garbage dump’; ‘garbage littered the estate’;

Refusenoun

Refusal.

Garbagenoun

worthless or meaningless material or ideas; rubbish

‘a store full of overpriced garbage’;

Refusenoun

That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.

Garbagenoun

unwanted data in a computer's memory.

Refuseadjective

Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.

‘Everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.’;

Garbage

Garbage, trash, rubbish, or refuse is waste material that is discarded by humans, usually due to a perceived lack of utility. The term generally does not encompass bodily waste products, purely liquid or gaseous wastes, nor toxic waste products.

Refusenoun

food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

Refuseverb

show unwillingness towards;

‘he declined to join the group on a hike’;

Refuseverb

refuse to accept;

‘He refused my offer of hospitality’;

Refuseverb

elude, especially in a baffling way;

‘This behavior defies explanation’;

Refuseverb

refuse to let have;

‘She denies me every pleasure’; ‘he denies her her weekly allowance’;

Refuseverb

resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ;

‘His body rejected the liver of the donor’;

Refuseverb

refuse entrance or membership;

‘They turned away hundreds of fans’; ‘Black people were often rejected by country clubs’;