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Garbage vs Sans - What's the difference?

garbage | sans |

As nouns the difference between garbage and sans

is that garbage is the bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal while sans is .

As a verb garbage

is (obsolete) to eviscerate.

garbage

English

Alternative forms

* garbidge

Noun

(-)
  • The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
  • Food waste material of any kind.
  • Garbage is collected on Tuesdays; rubbish on Fridays
  • Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
  • The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.
  • A place or receptacle for waste material.
  • He threw the newspaper into the garbage .
  • Nonsense; gibberish.
  • (often, attributively) Something or someone worthless.
  • * 2009 , David R. Portney, 129 More Seminar Speaking Success Tips , ISBN 9780967851488, p. 8:
  • Forget about that garbage advice to “act natural”.

    Synonyms

    * junk, refuse, rubbish, trash, waste * See also

    Antonyms

    * artifact, asset, catch, find, prize, recyclable, resource, treasure, valuable

    Derived terms

    * garbage bag * garbage bin * garbage can * garbage collect * garbage collector * garbage collection * garbage disposal * garbage dump * * garbage man * garbage mitt * garbage scow * garbage time * garbage truck * garbo * garbologist

    Verb

    (garbag)
  • (obsolete) To eviscerate.
  • * 1674 , , ''The Passenger Pigeon , 1907, The Outing Publishing Company):
  • I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled and garbidged for three pence.

    Synonyms

    * gut * disembowel * eviscerate

    See also

    * American English

    sans

    English

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • without, lacking
  • * 1590 , , act v, scene 2 (First Folio ed.)
  • Ber.'' And to begin Wench, ?o God helpe me law,
    My loue to thee is ?ound, ''?ans''''' cracke or flaw.
    ''Ro?a.'' '''''Sans''''', '''''?ans
    , I pray you.
  • * 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 766:
  • Those with brooms started to sweep literally, at the feet of the crowd, driving it back into the side streets from which it had emerged to form this assembly – now riders sans steeds.
  • * 1991 , A. R. Morlan, The Amulet? , page 212
  • But regardless of when Wally had parked himself out in that backyard—sans coat or jacket—somehow, the old lady must have known where Wally would be before he drove out to the Isaacs trailer—or else she followed him out there from his house.

    Synonyms

    * (without) without, minus

    Adjective

    (-)
  • short for sans serif.
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