Litter vs Chaos - What's the difference?
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(countable) A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.
* Shakespeare
(countable) The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.
* D. Estrange
(uncountable) Material used as bedding for animals.
(uncountable) Collectively, items discarded on the ground.
* Jonathan Swift
(uncountable) Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray
(uncountable) Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.
A covering of straw for plants.
* Evelyn
To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
* By tossing the bottle out the window, he was littering .
To strew with scattered articles.
* Jonathan Swift
To give birth to, used of animals.
* Sir Thomas Browne
* Shakespeare
To produce a litter of young.
* Macaulay
To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
* Bishop Hacke
* Dryden
To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
* Habington
(obsolete) A vast chasm or abyss.
The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony
Any state of disorder, any confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.
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(obsolete, rare) A given medium; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment.
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(mathematics) Behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.
(fantasy) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.
Litter is a related term of chaos.
As nouns the difference between litter and chaos
is that litter is (countable) a platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol while chaos is .As a verb litter
is to drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).litter
English
Noun
(wikipedia litter)- There is a litter ready; lay him in 't.
- A wolf came to a sow, and very kindly offered to take care of her litter .
- Strephon / Stole in, and took a strict survey / Of all the litter as it lay.
- Take off the litter from your kernel beds.
Synonyms
* (platform designed to carry a person or a load): palanquin, sedan chair, stretcher, cacolet * (items discarded on the ground): waste, rubbish, garbage (US), trash (US), junkDerived terms
* cat litter * litter bin * litter bug, litterbug * litter frogVerb
(en verb)- the room with volumes littered round
- We might conceive that dogs were created blind, because we observe they were littered so with us.
- The son that she did litter here, / A freckled whelp hagborn.
- A desert where the she-wolf still littered .
- Tell them how they litter their jades.
- For his ease, well littered was the floor.
- The inn where he and his horse littered .
Derived terms
* littererAnagrams
* ---- ==Jèrriais==Derived terms
*chaos
English
Noun
(en-noun)- What is the centre of the earth? is it pure element only, as Aristotle decrees, inhabited (as Paracelsus thinks) with creatures whose chaos is the earth: or with fairies, as the woods and waters (according to him) are with nymphs, or as the air with spirits?