garbage Definition
gar·bage (gär′bij)
noun
- spoiled or waste food that is thrown away
- 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 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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