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garbage Definition

gar·bage (gärbij)

noun

  1. spoiled or waste food that is thrown away
  2. any worthless, unnecessary, or offensive matter literary garbage

Etymology: ME, entrails of fowls < ?

garbage Related Forms

gar·bagey adjective or gar·bagy

garbage Synonyms

garbage

n.

garbage Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • spout: The train manager tried to placate my anger but made matters worse by spouting garbage that it wasn't her fault.
  • rot: But it's like building your house with shallow foundations on an old rubbish tip full of rotting garbage.
  • dump: The municipality trucks try, nonetheless, to sneak into villages to dump the garbage.
  • collect: These strings do not appear to get garbage collected.
  • print: When a printer prints garbage, it can indicate a faulty cable or a loose connection.
  • get: Get the garbage out of your life, get back into the Word of God, get back into living an obedient life.

Adjective modifier

  • utter: That is why Christians get away with the utter garbage they do.
  • pure: Luckily in a digital format we won't need to actually waste tree's for this pure garbage.
  • absolute: He dismissed much of the Addam's center's medical information as ' absolute garbage ' .

Modifies a noun

  • collector: The data will be passed to the garbage collector to be removed from memory.
  • subcommand: Use the clean_up garbage queue subcommand to delete all the garbage requests in the queue.
  • pail: The proposal " found its way quickly to the garbage pail, " Sabri said Saturday.
  • truck: First, they make fun of Papa Paolo's garbage truck, which is no fair.. .
  • dump: The Cirque is now a major Montreal asset, having built its own headquarters on a former garbage dump.
  • disposal: Next the Mac began to emit a grinding noise not unlike a garbage disposal.

Noun used with modifier

  • clean_up: Use the clean_up garbage queue subcommand to delete all the garbage requests in the queue.
  • copying: The objects are then copied into it using a copying garbage collector.
  • printer: Why does my printer print garbage from MS-DOS and Windows?
  • household: At first glance, I thought I would be reading a tale about household garbage or things people had thrown out to waste.
  • print: Why does my printer print garbage from MS-DOS and Windows?

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