Garbage vs Wastebasket - What's the difference?
garbage | wastebasket |
The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
Food waste material of any kind.
Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
A place or receptacle for waste material.
Nonsense; gibberish.
(often, attributively) Something or someone worthless.
* 2009 , David R. Portney, 129 More Seminar Speaking Success Tips , ISBN 9780967851488,
(obsolete) To eviscerate.
* 1674 , , ''The Passenger Pigeon , 1907, The Outing Publishing Company):
A receptacle for items that are to be discarded; a rubbish bin; a garbage can. Usually small and used indoors.
As nouns the difference between garbage and wastebasket
is that garbage is {{cx|obsolete|lang=en}} The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal while wastebasket is a receptacle for items that are to be discarded; a rubbish bin; a garbage can. Usually small and used indoors.As a verb garbage
is to eviscerate.garbage
English
Alternative forms
* garbidgeNoun
(-)- Garbage is collected on Tuesdays; rubbish on Fridays
- The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.
- He threw the newspaper into the garbage .
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- Forget about that garbage advice to “act natural”.
Synonyms
* junk, refuse, rubbish, trash, waste * See alsoAntonyms
* artifact, asset, catch, find, prize, recyclable, resource, treasure, valuableDerived 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 * garbologistVerb
(garbag)- I have bought at Boston a dozen Pidgeons ready pulled and garbidged for three pence.