Trash vs Residue - What's the difference?
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(chiefly, US) Useless things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
* Landor
A container into which things are discarded.
Something worthless or of poor quality.
(slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class.
(computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.
(US) To discard.
* 1989 , InfoWorld (18 December 1989, page 66)
(US) To make into a mess.
(US) To beat soundly in a game.
(US) To disrespect someone or something
To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.
To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.
Whatever remains after something else has been removed.
(chemistry) The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.
(legal) Whatever property or effects are left in an estate after payment of all debts, other charges and deduction of what is specifically bequeathed by the testator.
(mathematics) A form of complex number, proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function along a path enclosing one of its singularities.
Residue is a synonym of trash.
As nouns the difference between trash and residue
is that trash is useless things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse while residue is whatever remains after something else has been removed.As a verb trash
is to discard.trash
English
Noun
(-)- A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin.
- (Markham)
Synonyms
* garbage (1-3), junk (1,3), refuse (1), rubbish, waste * (container) trash can * See alsoDerived terms
* trailer trash * trash bag * trash can * trashed * trashery * trash fish * trashman * trashmover * trashy * white trashVerb
(es)- Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.
- The burglars trashed the house.
- to trash the rattoons of sugar cane
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)