Definitions for garbage
ˈgɑr bɪdʒgarbage

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. garbage, refuse, food waste, scrapsnoun

   food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

2. drivel, garbagenoun

   a worthless message

3. garbagenoun

   a receptacle where waste can be discarded

   "she tossed the moldy bread into the garbage"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. garbagenoun

   Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.

2. garbagenoun

   Nonsense; gibberish.

3. garbagenoun

   Something or someone worthless.

4. garbageverb

   To eviscerate.

5. Etymology: "the offal of a fowl, giblets, kitchen waste", originally "refuse, what is purged away" from garber "to refine, make neat or clean", of origin, akin to garawan "to prepare, make ready", gearwian. More at garb, yare, gear

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Garbagenoun

   Etymology: garbear, Spanish.

   1. The bowels; the offal; that part of the inwards which is separated and thrown away.

   The cloyed will,
   That satiate, yet unsatisfy’d desire, that tub
   Both fill’d and running, ravening first the lamb,
   Longs after for the garbage William Shakespeare, Cymbeline.

   Lust, though to a radiant angel link’d,
   Will sate itself in a celestial bed,
   And prey on garbage. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

   A flam more senseless than the rog’ry
   Of old Aruspicy and aug’ry,
   That out of garbages of cattle
   Presag’d th’ events of truce or battle. Hudibras, p. ii.

   Who, without aversion, ever look’d
   On holy garbage, though by cook’d? Wentworth Dillon.

   When you receive condign punishment, you run to your confessor, that parcel of guts and garbage. John Dryden, Span. Fryar.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Garbage

   Garbage, trash, rubbish, or refuse is waste material that is discarded by humans, usually due to a perceived lack of utility. The term generally does not encompass bodily waste products, purely liquid or gaseous wastes, or toxic waste products. Garbage is commonly sorted and classified into kinds of material suitable for specific kinds of disposal.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Garbagenoun

   offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome

2. Garbageverb

   to strip of the bowels; to clean

3. Etymology: [OE. also garbash, perh. orig., that which is purged or cleansed away; cf. OF. garber to make fine, neat, OHG. garawan to make ready, prepare, akin to E. garb dress; or perh. for garbleage, fr. garble; or cf. OF. garbage tax on sheaves, E. garb sheaf.]

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1. Garbage

   Garbage is an alternative rock band formed in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1994. The group consists of Scottish singer Shirley Manson and American musicians Duke Erikson, Steve Marker, and Butch Vig. All four members are involved in songwriting and production. The band have counted worldwide album sales of over 17 million units. Garbage released a string of increasingly successful singles in 1995–1996, including "Stupid Girl" and "Only Happy When It Rains". Their debut album, Garbage, was an unexpected smash, selling over 4 million copies and certified double platinum in the UK, US, and Australia. Garbage won the Breakthrough Artist award at the 1996 MTV Europe Music Awards. Garbage spent two years working on follow-up album, Version 2.0, which topped the charts in the UK upon its 1998 release and the following year was nominated for two Grammy Awards, Album of the Year and Best Rock Album. Version 2.0 went on to match the sales of its predecessor. Garbage followed this up by performing and co-producing the theme song to the nineteenth James Bond movie The World Is Not Enough. Despite being named one of Rolling Stone's Top 10 Albums of the Year, Garbage's 2001 third album Beautiful Garbage failed to match the commercial success achieved by its predecessors. Garbage quietly disbanded in late 2003, but regrouped to complete fourth album Bleed Like Me in 2005, peaking at a career-high No. 4 in the US. The band cut short their concert tour in support of Bleed Like Me announcing an "indefinite hiatus", emphasizing that they had not broken up, but wished to pursue personal interests.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Garbage

   gär′bāj, n. refuse, as the bowels of an animal: any worthless matter. [Of doubtful origin; prob. O. Fr. garbe, a sheaf; not conn. with garble.]

U.S. National Library of MedicineRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Garbage

   Discarded animal and vegetable matter from a kitchen or the refuse from food preparation. (From Random House College Dictionary, 1982)

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How to pronounce garbage?

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Karen

   Australian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of garbage in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of garbage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of garbage in a Sentence

1. Jerry Torre:

   The first obvious thing to do was clear the mansion of debris and garbage — there were days of it.

2. Joe Imbriale:

   They said we’re looking for somebody that dumped a black garbage bag in your dumpster, and I knew right then, I turned to the office and said, ‘Please don’t tell me it’s a baby,’.

3. Shaun King:

   Mostly garbage, all well meaning. 3-4 helpful. Working with the family and local authorities. Some promising leads, but not nearly enough.

4. Katherine Fernandez Rundle:

   If there is evidence that meets the requirements of South Florida over the weekend law for a criminal prosecution of these, vile hate-fill( sic) pamphlets, we will take this matter to our criminal courts, we will not allow hate mongers, who are leaving garbage throughout our community, to divide and harm our community.

5. Prime Minister Tammam Salam:

   The trash is the straw that broke the camel's back, but the story is much bigger than this straw. It is the story of the political garbage in the country and the political trash in the country.

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