Rubbish vs Litter - What's the difference?
rubbish | litter | Synonyms |
(chiefly, AU, NZ, British, colloquial) Exceedingly bad; awful; terrible; crappy.
(colloquial) Expresses that something is exceedingly bad, terrible or awful.
Expresses that what was recently said is untruth or nonsense.
Garbage, junk, refuse, waste.
Nonsense.
Fragments of buildings; ruins; debris.
* Dryden
To denounce, to criticise, to denigrate, to disparage.
(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
Litter is a synonym of rubbish.
As nouns the difference between rubbish and litter
is that rubbish is garbage, junk, refuse, waste 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 verbs the difference between rubbish and litter
is that rubbish is to denounce, to criticise, to denigrate, to disparage while litter is to drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).As an adjective rubbish
is exceedingly bad; awful; terrible; crappy.As an interjection rubbish
is expresses that something is exceedingly bad, terrible or awful.rubbish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This has been a rubbish day, and it's about to get worse: my mother-in-law is coming to stay.
Interjection
- The one day I actually practice my violin, the teacher cancels the lesson.
- Aw, rubbish ! Though at least this means you have time to play football...
- Rubbish! I did nothing of the sort!
Synonyms
* (expresses that what was recently said is untruth or nonsense) nonsense, bullshit, bollocksNoun
(wikipedia rubbish) (-)- The rubbish is collected every Thursday in Gloucester, but on Wednesdays in Cheltenham.
- Everything the teacher said during that lesson was rubbish . How can she possibly think that a bass viol and a cello are the same thing?
- He saw the town's one half in rubbish lie.
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoDerived terms
* rubbish binVerb
(es)Derived terms
* rubbisherReferences
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 .