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Thrash vs Rubbish - What's the difference?

thrash | rubbish |

As verbs the difference between thrash and rubbish

is that thrash is to beat mercilessly while rubbish is to denounce, to criticise, to denigrate, to disparage.

As nouns the difference between thrash and rubbish

is that thrash is a beat or blow; the sound of beating while rubbish is garbage, junk, refuse, waste.

As an adjective rubbish is

(chiefly|au|nz|british|colloquial) exceedingly bad; awful; terrible; crappy.

As an interjection rubbish is

(colloquial) expresses that something is exceedingly bad, terrible or awful.

thrash

English

Verb

(es)
  • To beat mercilessly.
  • To defeat utterly.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=January 8 , author=Paul Fletcher , title=Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Pardew made five changes to the side that thrashed West Ham 5-0 on Wednesday - with players such as James Perch and Alan Smith given the chance to underline their case for a regular starting berth. }}
  • To thresh.
  • To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
  • * '', 1987, ''John Dryden: The Major Works , Oxford University Press, page 364,
  • I rather would be Maevius, thrash for rhymes, / Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times.
  • (software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
  • (computing) In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
  • Noun

    (-)
  • A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
  • * 1918 , ,
  • Even among friends at the dinner-table he talked as though he were denouncing them, or someone else, on a platform; he measured his phrases, built his sentences, cumulated his effects, and pounded his opponents, real or imagined. His humor was glow, like iron at dull heat; his blow was elementary, like the thrash of a whale.
  • * 1934 May, ,
  • As he reeled on wide-braced legs, sobbing for breath, the jungle and the moon swimming bloodily to his sight, the thrash of bat-wings was loud in his ears.
  • (music) A particularly aggressive and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical precision, and alternate picking.
  • Synonyms

    * (music) thrash metal

    References

    * (computing, software) P. J. Denning. 1968. Thrashing: Its Causes and Prevention. Proceedings AFIPS,1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, vol. 33, pp. 915-922.

    rubbish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (chiefly, AU, NZ, British, colloquial) Exceedingly bad; awful; terrible; crappy.
  • This has been a rubbish day, and it's about to get worse: my mother-in-law is coming to stay.

    Interjection

  • (colloquial) Expresses that something is exceedingly bad, terrible or awful.
  • 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...
  • Expresses that what was recently said is untruth or nonsense.
  • Rubbish! I did nothing of the sort!

    Synonyms

    * (expresses that what was recently said is untruth or nonsense) nonsense, bullshit, bollocks

    Noun

    (wikipedia rubbish) (-)
  • Garbage, junk, refuse, waste.
  • The rubbish is collected every Thursday in Gloucester, but on Wednesdays in Cheltenham.
  • Nonsense.
  • 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?
  • Fragments of buildings; ruins; debris.
  • * Dryden
  • He saw the town's one half in rubbish lie.

    Synonyms

    * See also * See also

    Derived terms

    * rubbish bin

    Verb

    (es)
  • To denounce, to criticise, to denigrate, to disparage.
  • Derived terms

    * rubbisher

    References