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I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I don't get crazy.
Abigail Breslin

Meaning of "garbage" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GARBAGE

Probably from Anglo-French garbelage removal of discarded matter, of uncertain origin; compare Old Italian garbuglio confusion.
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PRONUNCIATION OF GARBAGE

garbage  [ˈɡɑːbɪdʒ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GARBAGE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Garbage is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GARBAGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

garbage

Municipal solid waste

Municipal solid waste, commonly known as trash or garbage, refuse or rubbish is a waste type consisting of everyday items that are discarded by the public.

Definition of garbage in the English dictionary

The first definition of garbage in the dictionary is worthless, useless, or unwanted matter. Other definition of garbage is Also called: rubbish. discarded or waste matter; refuse. Garbage is also invalid data.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GARBAGE


advantage
ədˈvɑːntɪdʒ
age
eɪdʒ
ambage
ˈæmbɪdʒ
average
ˈævərɪdʒ
Babbage
ˈbæbɪdʒ
bridge
brɪdʒ
Burbage
ˈbɜːbɪdʒ
cabbage
ˈkæbɪdʒ
carbage
ˈkɑːbɪdʒ
college
ˈkɒlɪdʒ
coverage
ˈkʌvərɪdʒ
cribbage
ˈkrɪbɪdʒ
cubage
ˈkjuːbɪdʒ
damage
ˈdæmɪdʒ
herbage
ˈhɜːbɪdʒ
heritage
ˈhɛrɪtɪdʒ
image
ˈɪmɪdʒ
knowledge
ˈnɒlɪdʒ
language
ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ
tubage
ˈtjuːbɪdʒ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GARBAGE

garb
garbage can
garbage chute
garbage collection
garbage collector
garbage disposal
garbage disposal unit
garbage man
garbage shute
garbage truck
garbagey
garbagy
garbanzo
garbe
garble
garbled
garbler
garbless
garbo
garboard

WORDS THAT END LIKE GARBAGE

Chinese cabbage
drumhead cabbage
garage
home page
in this day and age
marriage
massage
message
mortgage
on the same page
package
page
pak-choi cabbage
pe-tsai cabbage
red cabbage
reportage
skunk cabbage
stage
turnip cabbage
wild cabbage

Synonyms and antonyms of garbage in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «GARBAGE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «garbage» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of garbage

Translation of «garbage» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GARBAGE

Find out the translation of garbage to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of garbage from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «garbage» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

垃圾
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

basura
570 millions of speakers

English

garbage
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कचरा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نُفَايَة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мусор
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

lixo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আবর্জনা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

déchets
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sampah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Abfall
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ごみ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

쓰레기
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sampah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

rác thải
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குப்பை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कचरा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çöp
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

immondizia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

śmieci
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сміття
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

gunoi
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σκουπίδια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vullis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sopor
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

søppel
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of garbage

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GARBAGE»

The term «garbage» is very widely used and occupies the 10.790 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GARBAGE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «garbage» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «garbage» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about garbage

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10 QUOTES WITH «GARBAGE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word garbage.
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Sarah Addison Allen
There's an old hymn called 'How Can I Keep from Singing?' That's what writing feels like to me. I have to write. It's intrinsic to who I am. So it was a natural choice for me to try to pursue writing as a career. Truthfully, though, I still daydream about how fun it would be to ride on the back of a garbage truck.
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Woody Allen
In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.
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Shawn Amos
When Woodstock ended on Monday morning, over 600 acres of garbage was left behind on Max Yasgur's farm. It took over 400 volunteers and $100,000 to remove it all.
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Carol Bartz
My husband doesn't listen because his mother didn't make him listen. What am I going to do, beat him? I mean: firstborn of a southern family? Firstborn boy? Please. I mean, I love him to death, but is he going to take the garbage out? No.
5
Lake Bell
I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.
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Carl Bernstein
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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Neill Blomkamp
When any young director gets hired by a studio to do a $125 million film based on a preexisting piece of intellectual property, they're climbing into the meat grinder. And what you're coming out with on the other side is a generic, heavily studio-controlled pile of garbage that ends up on the side of Burger King wrappers.
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Lara Flynn Boyle
I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.
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Rory Bremner
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
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Abigail Breslin
I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I don't get crazy.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GARBAGE»

Discover the use of garbage in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to garbage and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage
Rubbish! is their witty and erudite investigation into all aspects of the phenomenon of garbage. Rathje and Murphy show what the study of garbage tells us about a population's demographics and buying habits.
William L. Rathje, Cullen Murphy, 2001
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Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment
This revised edition of a seminal work in the field of urban environmental history traces the development of waste management and related technologies from the Progressive Era to the present.
Martin V. Melosi, 1981
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Garbage
Examines various methods of handling waste products, including landfills, incineration, recycling, and reducing the amount of garbage produced, as well as future possibilities for waste management.
Eleanor J. Hall, 1997
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Worms Eat My Garbage
An illustrated guide to creating a small-scale worm composting system includes coverage of worm species, reproduction, feeding, and harvesting.
Mary Appelhof, 1997
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Garbage collection: algorithms for automatic dynamic memory ...
Visit this book's companion Website for updates, revisions, online gc resources, bibliography and links to more gc sites 'Whatever else Java has accomplished, it has finally brought garbage collection into the mainstream.
Richard Jones, Rafael Lins, 1996
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The Case of the Gasping Garbage: And Other Super-scientific ...
Fourth-graders Drake Doyle and Nell Fossey combine their detective and scientific investigation skills to solve a variety of cases involving a noisy garbage can, endangered frogs, a stuck truck, and a mysterious love letter.
‎2002
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Garbage
A fast-paced novel told heavily through dialogue, Garbage examines just how far one is willing to go to live under his own terms.
Stephen Dixon, 2013
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The Garbage King
Inspired by the true story of an African childhood lived on the edge of destitution, award-winning Elizabeth Laird’s new novel takes readers on an unforgettable emotional journey.
Elizabeth Laird, 2008
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The Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice: Looking ...
To celebrate this enduring paradigm, its impact on our understanding of organizational decision making, and the broad streams of research it has influenced, this collection of papers provides a rich demonstration of the influence that the ...
Alessandro Lomi, J. Richard Harrison, 2012
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Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage
How did we end up with this much rubbish, and where does it all go? Journalist and filmmaker Heather Rogers answers these questions by taking readers on a grisly, oddly fascinating tour through the underworld of garbage.
Heather Rogers, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GARBAGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term garbage is used in the context of the following news items.
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Oracle Confirms G1 as Default Garbage Collector for Java 9 - InfoQ
As previously mentioned on InfoQ, Oracle had proposed JEP 248, about making G1 the default garbage collector, to be included in the list of ... «InfoQ.com, Jul 15»
2
Food truck owner making statement with 'garbage fries' | Local News …
2. seconds. Property taxes to go up in Port St. Lucie. 1: 13. post a comment. A food truck owner is making a statement with garbage fries. Tweet. «WPBF West Palm Beach, Jul 15»
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Parma mayor proposes garbage fee; Parma student dies while …
Garbage fee: Mayor Tim DeGeeter is proposing charging residents a garbage fee, to balance the budget next year. DeGeeter gave no specifics ... «cleveland.com, Jul 15»
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Garbage pile-ups everywhere - Nation Newspaper, The
AS THE SANITATION SERVICE AUTHORITY (SSA) strike continues, it is a case of garbage, garbage everywhere in some parts of the island. «Nation News, Jul 15»
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Roads, garbage and Burningtree school top Hammon's goals for the …
This is the first in a series of stories about the Decatur City Council's five council members and their districts entering the final year of their ... «The Decatur Daily, Jul 15»
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Rocks added to garbage for higher tipping fee? | Sun.Star
ARE boulders added to the garbage trucked from Baguio City to the landfill in Tarlac so the hauler could get a bigger tipping fee for the heavier ... «Sun.Star, Jul 15»
7
Demi Lovato Reminds Everyone on Instagram That Body-Shaming …
Demi Lovato Reminds Everyone on Instagram That Body-Shaming Is Garbage. "Learn to lurrrrrvveee yerrrrr currrrrvveees!" Share · Tweet · Pin. «Cosmopolitan.com, Jul 15»
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How to pay Zahra better? Start with the garbage collectors, DAP MP …
“You must be thinking that I am joking. How could one fathom the possibility of a garbage collector being paid RM2,000 per month in the current ... «Malay Mail Online, Jul 15»
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Did Kris Jenner Seriously Wear a Garbage Bag? See the Pics! - In …
Kris Jenner has landed in London and, of course, she couldn't resist making a statement. The momager showed up at a photo studio on ... «In Touch Weekly, Jul 15»
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Garbage Piles up Across the City as Sanitation Workers Continue …
HYDERABAD: With the sanitation workers and municipal employees continuing their strike, garbage continues to pile up across the city, adding ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»

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