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Television vs Garbage - What's the difference?

television | garbage |

As nouns the difference between television and garbage

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

As a verb garbage is

(obsolete) to eviscerate.

television

English

(wikipedia television)

Noun

  • (uncountable) An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
    • It’s a good thing that television doesn’t transmit smell.
  • (countable) A device for receiving television signals and displaying them in visual form.
    • I have an old television in the study.
  • (uncountable) Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
    • fifty-seven channels and nothing on television

    Derived terms

    (television) * cable television * on television * televangelism * televangelist * television channel * television network * television station * TV

    Synonyms

    (television) * boob tube * cultural barbiturate * electronic babysitter * glass teat * goggle box * idiot box * plebvision * the shit box * television set * telly * the tube * TV

    Related terms

    (television) * televisional * televisionally * televisionary * televise, televize * televisual

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (neologism, informal) To watch television.

    • Anagrams

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    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