Clowder vs Litter - What's the difference?
clowder | litter |
A group of cats.
* 2007 , Kathryn Soper, Cat Wrangling Made Easy
* 2010 , The Big Bang Theory , episode “
* 2011 , M.D. Pueppke, Fuzzy the Cat, The One and Only , “
English collective nouns
(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
As nouns the difference between clowder and litter
is that clowder is a group of cats while litter is 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.As a verb litter is
to drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).clowder
English
Noun
(en noun)- Real cat fights are rare in established clowders . So instead of risking serious injury, cats resort to menace and threats.
The Zazzy Substitution”
- Leonard : You’re clearly upset about Amy being gone, and you’re trying to replace her with a bunch of cats.
- Sheldon : Clowder .
- Leonard : What?
- Sheldon : A group of cats is a clowder . Or a glaring. It’s the kind of thing you ought to know now that we have one.
Getting on terms with the terms”
- How ?bout organizing a party of clowder' chowder. You know, big servings of chowder for the cat ' clowder .
Synonyms
* (l)Hyponyms
* kindle (group of kittens)See also
*References
* Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006. 12 Oct. 2006.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 .