Garbage vs. Waste

Garbagenoun

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

Wastenoun

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

Garbagenoun

Food waste material of any kind.

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

Wastenoun

Excrement or urine.

‘The cage was littered with animal waste’;

Garbagenoun

Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.

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

Wastenoun

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

Garbagenoun

A place or receptacle for waste material.

‘He threw the newspaper into the garbage.’;

Wastenoun

A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.

Garbagenoun

Nonsense; gibberish.

Wastenoun

A large tract of uncultivated land.

Garbagenoun

Something or someone worthless.

Wastenoun

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

Garbageverb

to eviscerate

Wastenoun

A vast expanse of water.

Garbagenoun

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

Wastenoun

A disused mine or part of one.

Garbageverb

To strip of the bowels; to clean.

Wastenoun

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

‘That was a waste of time’; ‘Her life seemed a waste’;

Garbagenoun

food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

Wastenoun

Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.

Garbagenoun

a worthless message

Wastenoun

Gradual loss or decay.

Garbagenoun

a receptacle where garbage is discarded;

‘she tossed the moldy bread into the garbage’;

Wastenoun

A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away.

Garbagenoun

rubbish or waste, especially domestic refuse

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

Wastenoun

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

Garbagenoun

worthless or meaningless material or ideas; rubbish

‘a store full of overpriced garbage’;

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.

Garbagenoun

unwanted data in a computer's memory.

Wastenoun

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

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.

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.

‘We wasted millions of dollars and several years on that project.’;

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.

‘The dismal situation waste and wild.’; ‘His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into the waste darkness of futurity.’;

Wasteadjective

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

‘But his waste words returned to him in vain.’; ‘Not a waste or needless sound,Till we come to holier ground.’; ‘Ill day which made this beauty waste.’;

Wasteadjective

Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.

‘And strangled with her waste fertility.’;

Wasteverb

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

‘Thou barren ground, whom winter's wrath hath wasted,Art made a mirror to behold my plight.’; ‘The TiberInsults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds.’;

Wasteverb

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

‘Until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.’; ‘O, were I ableTo waste it all myself, and leave ye none!’; ‘Here condemnedTo waste eternal days in woe and pain.’; ‘Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of age daily grew on him.’;

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.

‘The younger son gathered all together, and . . . wasted his substance with riotous living.’; ‘Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,And waste its sweetness on the desert air.’;

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.

‘The time wasteth night and day.’; ‘The barrel of meal shall not waste.’; ‘But man dieth, and wasteth 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.

‘For all this waste of wealth loss of blood.’; ‘He will never . . . in the way of waste, attempt us again.’; ‘Little wastes in great establishments, constantly occurring, may defeat the energies of a mighty capital.’;

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.

‘All the leafy nation sinks at last,And Vulcan rides in triumph o'er the waste.’; ‘The gloomy waste of waters which bears his name is his tomb and his monument.’;

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;

‘they collect the waste once a week’; ‘much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers’;

Wastenoun

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

‘if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste’; ‘mindless dissipation of natural resources’;

Wastenoun

the trait of wasting resources;

‘a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste’; ‘the wastefulness of missed opportunities’;

Wastenoun

an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation;

‘the barrens of central Africa’; ‘the trackless wastes of the desert’;

Wastenoun

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

Wasteverb

spend thoughtlessly; throw away;

‘He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends’; ‘You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree’;

Wasteverb

use inefficiently or inappropriately;

‘waste heat’; ‘waste a joke on an unappreciative audience’;

Wasteverb

get rid of;

‘We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer’;

Wasteverb

run off as waste;

‘The water wastes back into the ocean’;

Wasteverb

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

‘The mafia liquidated the informer’; ‘the double agent was neutralized’;

Wasteverb

spend extravagantly;

‘waste not, want not’;

Wasteverb

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

‘After her husband died, she just pined away’;

Wasteverb

cause to grow thin or weak;

‘The treatment emaciated him’;

Wasteverb

devastate or ravage;

‘The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion’;

Wasteverb

waste away;

‘Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world’;

Wasteadjective

disposed of as useless;

‘waste paper’;

Wasteadjective

located in a dismal or remote area; desolate;

‘a desert island’; ‘a godforsaken wilderness crossroads’; ‘a wild stretch of land’; ‘waste places’;

Wasteverb

use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose

‘we can't afford to waste electricity’; ‘I don't use the car, so why should I waste precious money on it?’;

Wasteverb

expend on an unappreciative recipient

‘her small talk was wasted on this guest’;

Wasteverb

fail to make full or good use of

‘we're wasted in this job’;

Wasteverb

deliberately dispose of (surplus stock)

‘20% of stock will need to be wasted’;

Wasteverb

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

‘she was visibly wasting away’;

Wasteverb

make progressively weaker and more emaciated

‘these symptoms wasted the patients very much’;

Wasteverb

devastate or ruin (a place)

‘he seized their cattle and wasted their country’;

Wasteverb

kill or severely injure (someone)

‘I saw them waste the guy I worked for’;

Wasteverb

(of time) pass away

‘the years were wasting’;

Wasteadjective

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

‘ensure that waste materials are disposed of responsibly’; ‘plants produce oxygen as a waste product’;

Wasteadjective

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

‘a patch of waste ground’;

Wastenoun

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

‘it's a waste of time trying to argue with him’; ‘they had learned to avoid waste’;

Wastenoun

the gradual loss or diminution of something

‘he was pale and weak from waste of blood’;

Wastenoun

unwanted or unusable material, substances, or by-products

‘nuclear waste’; ‘hazardous industrial wastes’;

Wastenoun

a large area of barren, typically uninhabited land

‘the icy wastes of the Antarctic’;

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.