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Definition: Litter |
LitterNoun1. The offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal. 2. Rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places). 3. Conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers. 4. Material used to provide a bed for animals. Verb1. Strew; "Cigar butts littered the ground". 2. Make a place messy by strewing garbage around. 3. Give birth to a litter of animals. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "litter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Litter \Lit"ter\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Littered; Littering.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Litter (Heb. tsab, as being lightly and gently borne), a sedan or palanquin for the conveyance of persons of rank (Isa. 66:20). In Num. 7:3, the words "covered wagons" are more literally "carts of the litter kind." There they denote large and commodious vehicles drawn by oxen, and fitted for transporting the furniture of the temple. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Environment | 1. The highly visible portion of solid waste carelessly discarded outside the regular garbage and trash collection and disposal system. 2. leaves and twigs fallen from forest trees. (references) |
| Solid pollutant which can be removed by e. g. picking by hand; cf. dirt. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Refuse or rubbish lying scattered about. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Food & Agriculture | The surface layer of the forest floor that is not in an advanced stage of decomposition, usually consisting of freshly fallen leaves, needles, twigs, stems, bark, and fruits. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The average -- is four, but the Abyssinian usually has fewer. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Medicine | Appliance consisting of an oblong frame over which is stretched a canvas or other material, used for carrying an injured or disabled person; Essential equipment in first aid; Stretchers come in all forms and makes, and can in case of necessity be improvised from any material which comes to hand. Source: European Union. (references) |
Weather | Undecomposed plant residues on the soil surface. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
"Pollution" refers to harmful environmental contaminants and to the act or process of polluting the environment. Generally the process needs to result from human activity to be regarded as pollution. Even relatively benign products of human activity are liable to be regarded as pollution, if they precipitate negative effects later on. The nitrogen oxides and ozone produced by industry are often referred to as pollution, for example, although the substances themselves are not harmful. In fact, it is solar energy (sunlight) that converts these compounds to smog.
Whether something is pollution can depend on context. Blooms of algae and the resultant eutrophication of lakes and coastal ocean is considered pollution when it is fueled by nutrients from industrial, agricultural, or residential runoff.
Although carbon dioxide is not toxic—and actually stimulates plant growth—because it is a greenhouse gas that fosters global warming, carbon dioxide is sometimes referred to as pollution, in particular that produced by the combustion of fuels for human use. More often and more properly carbon dioxide from such sources are labelled neutrally as "emissions."
Traditional forms of pollution include air pollution, water pollution, while a broader interpretation of the word has led to the ideas of ship pollution, light pollution and noise pollution.
Serious pollution sources include chemical plants, oil refineries, nuclear waste dumps, regular garbage dumps (many toxic substances are illegally dumped there), incinerators, PVC factories, corporate animal farms creating huge amounts of animal waste. Some of the more common contaminants are: lead (like in lead paint), chromium, zinc, arsenic, benzene.
Pollutants are thought to play a part in a variety of maladies, including: cancer, lupus, immune diseasess, allergies, asthma.
Regulation and Monitoring
The United States Environmental Protection Agency was supposed to establish "acceptable" levels of exposure to contaminants. One of the ratings chemicals are given are carcinogenicity, or how likely they are to cause cancer. Levels range from, not carcinogenic, likely carcinogen, known carcinogen, and unknown. But scientists are finding out that most of these levels are far too high and people should be exposed less to them. The CalEPA Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment has a list of more reasonable levels. (OEHHA)
The US has many departments responsible for tracking various pollutants.
- Toxic Release Inventory - tracks how much waste companies release into the water and air. Gives permits for releasing specific quantities of these pollutants each year.
- Superfund - manages Superfund sites and the pollutants in them (CERCLA).
- OSHA limits for air contaminants
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry - found out top 20 pollutants, alias for chemicals, how they affect people, what industries use them and what products they are found in.
- National Toxicology Program - from National Institutes of Health. Reports and studies on how pollutants affect people.
- Toxnet - more databases and reports on toxicology. From NIH
Additional Resources
See also: pollutant, petroleum, renewable energy, toxicology
- Scorecard.org - lots of info about pollution in your area, just enter your zip code. Colored maps also show how bad certain types of pollution are in your area.
- Environmental Protection Agency
- OEHHA
- National Toxic Mold Coalition and Foundation
- Environmental Defense Fund
- Rachel's Environment and Health News - Weekly news about how the polluted environment affects people, and what corporations and governments are doing (or not doing) about it. Also in Spanish.
- Essential.org - Some organizations related to consumers and consumer protection, including pollution.
- CleanUp GE.org - Info about GE's shady dumping practices on the Hudson river.
- Extoxnet newsletters - environmental pollution news. Last update 1998.
- Environmental News Network - more news
- Environmental Working Group
- Sewage Sludge - in the U.S. it is perfectly legal to fertilize food crops with solids from the sewer, which include lots of heavy metals and toxins.
- Yahoo - Toxicology - another great starting point.
- The ToxTutor from the National Library of Medicine - An excellent resource to review human toxicology.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pollution."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Waste is unwanted or undesired material left over after the completion of a process.
Waste can exist as a solid, liquid, or gas. When released as a liquid or gas, waste is referred to as emissions. Identifying waste is a subjective matter, and waste is only defined as such when perceived as such. Some see waste as a negative externality, but it can also be viewed as a potential resource as in industrial ecology.
Natural waste and Human waste
Waste produced in the wild is reintegrated through natural recycling processes, such as dry leaves in a forest decomposing into soil. Outside of the wild these wastes may become problematic, such as dry leaves in an urban environment. The highest volume of waste, outside of nature, comes from human industrial activity: mining waste, industrial waste, post-consumer waste, and so on. Most manufactured products are destined to become waste at some point in time, with a volume of waste production roughly similar to the volume of resource consumption.Sustainable use requires a system view of environment issues. Let's suppose a consumer has a choice between apples coming from his own country, and those imported by ship. Which apple would consume the most energy to acquire? It depends on the consumer: if he goes by bicycle to the shop, the homegrown apple requires less energy. However, if he goes to buy the apple by car, it might be that the energy requirement of the car from home to the shop be higher than the energy required to import the apple to the shop, not even counting CO2 emissions.
Solid wastes and emission wastes
When one considers that every product ends up as waste, it might be a good idea to analyse matter entering the production cycle, rather than analysing wastes that are usually diluted as a result of the process. For example, a consumer buying products containing heavy metals in small quantities will probably not detect these heavy metals in the resulting waste. An analysis of products entering the production system, and a guarantee from the provider, might be a wiser approach to prevent the final pollution (example : a farmer receiving sewage sludge to landfill on some of his field for fertilizing; the sewage sludge analysis is more likely to reveal the pollution than the soil itself after a couple of years) (see also The Natural Step).
Solid wastes : to eliminate, to reuse, to avoid
Post-consumer waste is the waste produced by the end-user (the garbage one puts outside in the trash can). This is the waste people usually think of. But though the most visible, this is very small compare to the waste created in the process of mining and production.The ecological rucksack of industrial production is the total amount of waste related to a good in the course of its life cycle. For some metals, such as gold, the rucksack can be of a volume of 500 000 times the volume of metal extracted. For each gram of gold produced, 500 kg of mining waste is produced, containing other heavy metals which may pollute the atmosphere in their powdered form. These manufacturing wastes are by far the greatest output of many industrial production systems. In the United States, 93% of natural resources extracted are never transformed in goods, 80% of goods sold are thrown away after only one use, 99% of resources in a good are "waste" within 6 weeks of sale. There are very large potential gains in eco-efficiency, increasing the ratio of production unit per unit of natural resource, and decreasing the ratio of waste generated as a by-product. But mining waste is often perceived as waste only in case of an ecological crisis or as undesirable emissions.
Industry is slowly moving toward better use of its wastes. Industrial ecology for example is a method which consists of using the waste of a factory (matter or heat) as resources for another factory. (See the industrial district of Kalundborg in Sweden). Most wastes issues are due to products rejected outside of the manufacturing process, or those for which industries do not feel responsible: disposable packaging, free goods for advertisement. Shifting from service leasing rather than goods selling might be a solution.
Types of waste
Industrial waste -- Chemical waste -- Toxic waste -- municipal waste -- Greywater -- medical waste -- used oil -- batteries -- mining waste -- garbage (see: Waste) -- radioactive waste -- tires.
Treatment and control
landfill -- combustion -- composting -- recycling
See also
waste management - full-cost accounting - waste minimization - waste-matching - Downcycling - Lifecycle assessment - Post-consumer waste - Pre-consumer waste - Product lifecycle - Product life -- By-product - Waste DTD - Pay-as-you-throw - public bad -- willingness-to-pay -- Waste vegetable oil .
Autonomous building - Clean design
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Waste."
Synonyms: LitterSynonyms: bedding (n), bedding material (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arrangement | Litter, scatter; mix. |
Disorder | Noun: disorder; derangement; irregularity; anomaly; (unconformity); anarchy, anarchism; want of method; untidiness; Adjective: disunion; discord. confusion; confusedness; Adjective: mishmash, mix; disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber; cahotage; farrago; mess, mash, muddle, muss, hash, hodgepodge; hotch-potch, hotch-pot; imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum, medley; mere mixture; fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra, rudis indigestaque moles. |
Inutility | Litter, rubbish, junk, lumber, odds and ends, cast-off clothes; button top; shoddy; rags, orts, trash, refuse, sweepings, scourings, offscourings, waste, rubble, debris, detritus; stubble, leavings; broken meat; dregs; (dirt); weeds, tares; rubbish heap, dust hole; rudera, deads. |
Multitude | Noun: mul numerous; Adjective: numerosity, numerality; multiplicity; profusion; (plenty); legion, host; great number, large number, round number, enormous number; a quantity, numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy; scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm, draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood, litter, farrow, fry, nest; crowd; (assemblage); lots; all in the world and his wife. |
Posterity | Noun: posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring, brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat; family, grandchildren, heirs; great-grandchild. |
Support | Bed, berth, pallet, tester, crib, cot, hammock, shakedown, trucklebed, cradle, litter, stretcher, bedstead; four poster, French bed, bunk, kip, palang; bedding, bichhona, mattress, paillasse; pillow, bolster; mat, rug, cushion. |
Vehicle | Truck, tram; cariole, carriole; limber, tumbrel, pontoon; barrow; wheel barrow, hand barrow; perambulator; Bath chair, wheel chair, sedan chair; chaise; palankeen, palanquin; litter, brancard, crate, hurdle, stretcher, ambulance; black Maria; conestoga wagon, conestoga wain; jinrikisha, ricksha, brett, dearborn, dump cart, hack, hackery, jigger, kittereen, mailstate, manomotor, rig, rockaway, prairie schooner, shay, sloven, team, tonga, wheel; hobbyhorse, go-cart; cycle; bicycle, bike, two-wheeler; tricycle, velocipede, quadricycle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Litter |
| English words defined with "litter": Brancard ♦ Cacolet, covered couch ♦ Dooly, dust devil ♦ farrow, farrowing ♦ Kittle ♦ Lectica, Littering, Littery ♦ manure ♦ Norimon ♦ palankeen, palanquin ♦ sedan, sedan chair, stretcher, surface fire ♦ Whinock. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "litter": ammonia burn ♦ blocks ♦ caretaker, grounds ♦ dancing devil, dust whirl ♦ GROUNDSKEEPER, INDUSTRIAL-COMMERCIAL ♦ Hogs ♦ keratoconjunctivitis of poultry ♦ sand whirl, SANITATION INSPECTOR, STREET-SWEEPER OPERATOR ♦ tractor-sweeper driver ♦ walking patient. (references) |
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Screenplays | A litter box full of fly paper (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron) You shouldn't litter, Fag-etti (Heartbreak Ridge; writing credit: James Carabatsos) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Pink of the Litter (1967) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Missouri poultry producers and their feline friend check the contents of a poultry litter composter, which protects the environment and supplies nutrients for grassland. Credit: Charlie Rahm. |  | Proper waste management on the farm for environmental protection. Poultry Waste Management--Chicken litter being loaded into spreader truck in Northern Louisiana. Credit: Bob Nichols. |
 | Kenneth Young examines leaf litter for blacklegged tick nymphs. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Pig litter. Credit: USDA ARS News. |
 | Soil surface with plant litter. Credit: Unknown. |  | U.S. Air Force Hospital, Travis Air Force Base, Fairfield, CA. : Exterior of litter ambulance. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | In the cities we call this "refuse," in the countryside we call it "litter," and, in general, we call it "solid pollution." / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by J. Mohr.. |  | Empty shell cases litter the deck near the forward 6"/47 gun turrets of USS Brooklyn (CL-40), after she had bombarded Licata, Sicily, during the early hours of the invasion, 10 July 1943. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Expended cartridge cases and powder tanks from the ship's 5"/38 guns litter the deck, after firing in support of the Normandy invasion off Utah Beach, 6 June 1944. View was taken on the ship's afterdeck, with mount 54 at right. Credit: NAVY. |  | Little Litter Club picking up litter at Benning Terrace property. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And when the sun arose, the camping place was vacant, only a little litter left by the people |
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Health | Leaf litter provides a moist cover from wind, snow, and other elements. (references) | |
Avoid contact with animal litter boxes and waste, bird cages, and fish tanks. (references) | ||
In eastern states, ticks are associated with deciduous forest and habitat containing leaf litter. (references) | ||
Business | Citizens' groups in some up-scale neighborhoods have mounted local campaigns to delay or deny building permits based on concerns over noise, litter, odor and architectural styles. (references) | |
Economic History | Afghanistan | One of its key tasks is to eliminate from priority areas--such as villages, arable fields, and roads--some of the 5 to 7 million land mines and 750,000 pieces of unexploded ordnance, sown mainly during the Soviet occupation, which continue to litter the Afghan landscape. (references) |
Ireland | In addition, opportunities exist for proposals to build up regional "clusters" of attractions and facilities and to support environmental initiatives designed to tackle congestion, traffic/visitor management, visitor flows to islands, innovative litter control, training and awareness, as well as area-based projects integrating tourism and the environment. (references) | |
Trade | Luxembourg | Products that may be expected to carry the eco-label include textiles, detergents, dish-washing agents, cleaning agents, paints and varnishes, batteries, shampoos, packaging, refrigerators and freezers, tiles, shoes, cat litter, light bulbs and hair sprays. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Litter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.39% of the time. "Litter" is used about 688 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.39% | 670 | 9,825 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.6% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.02% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 688 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "litter" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Litter | Last name | 100 | 70,708 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "litter": cat litter ♦ forest litter ♦ kitty Litter ♦ litter bag ♦ litter basket ♦ litter bin ♦ litter box ♦ litter bug ♦ litter down ♦ litter lout ♦ Litter Size ♦ litter up ♦ make a litter in the room. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "litter": litter-a-chewer, litter-based, litter-bearer, litter-bearers, litter-bin, litter-blown, litter-box, litter-busters, litter-choked, litter-clutter, litter-disposal, litter-feeding, litter-free, litter-lout, litter-mates, litter-ridden, litter-strewn. | |
Ending with "litter": leaf-litter. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "litter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | draagbaar (strecher, stretcher), baar (strecher, wave). (various references) | |
Albanian | vig (hand-barrow, whig), thark (all children from one marriage, basket for bearing of grass, enclosure, especial closed cupboard for dairy produce, inclosure, offspring, sty, stye), tezgë (bookstall, go cart, hand-barrow, stall, stand, stretcher), shtrojë kashte (bedding), sende të shpërndara pa rregull, rrëmujë (alarm, bustle, clutter, disarray, disorder, disturbance, dust, farrago, hash, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, jumble, mess, mix up, moil, muss, pandemonium, pell mell, pie, pother, roistering, snafu, tangle, topsy turvy, topsy-turvydom, tumble, upheaval, upset, welter), pjellë (increase, offspring, product, scion), pjell (bring forth, calve, farrow, fawn, foal, gender, give birth, increase, pig, procreate, produce, whelp), mbush me (fill with, infuse, load, overrun), mbeturina (chaff, char, cheese-parings, garbage, kitchen stuff, leavings, odds and ends, pickings, recrement, refuse, relics, Reliquiae, remains, rubbish, shorts, spoilage, stamping, survival, tailings, waste, wrack), i shtroj kashtë, barelë (stretcher, trolley), bëj rrëmujë (clutter, disorder, hash, mess, pother). (various references) | |
Arabic | فوضى (anarchy, chaos, clatter, clutter, commotion, confusion, disarray, disorder, hugger mugger, jumble, lawlessness, mess, misrule, mix up, muddle, muss, rumpus, shambles, topsy turvy, turmoil, welter), كسا بأشياء مبعثرة, مهاد من التبن, نفايات (dumps, offal, refuse, shoddy, spoil, tailings), نقالة (hand-barrow, shaft, stretcher), وسخ (bedraggle, befoul, begrime, defiled, dirty, filthy, foul, grime, grimy, grubbiness, mess up, offset, ordure, scum, slattern, smut, soil, soot, sordid, stain, tarnish), غطى (cap, coat, cover, encase, face, invest, line, mantle, mask, mat, pall, paper, plaster, roof, sheathe, sheet, shield, smolder, smoulder, tuck, wrap), البطن مجموع الجراء التي يلدها حيوان, ركام مبعثر, بعثر (disarrange, disturb, disunite, rummage, scatter, shatter). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | отпадъци (carrion, dregs, dross, garbage, husks, junk, leavings, offal, pickings, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, scobs, scrapings, stock, throw out, throwaway, trash, waste, write-offs), прасило (farrow), прася се (pig), безпорядък (disarray, disorder, disorganization, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, misrule, moil, muck, muddle), боклук (dirt, dross, dud, fug, garbage, junk heap, mullock, odd-come-shorts, punk, raffle, rubbish, scrap heap, shoddy, spilth, trash, tripe, waste), застилам със слама, малки родени наведнъж, носилка (doolie, stretcher), постилам със слама, окучвам се (pup, whelp), смет (dirt, dust, mullock, offal, raffle, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, sweepings), оставям в безпорядък, котило (nest), хвърлям отпадъци, раждане (accouchement, bearing, birth, childbed, childbirth, confinement, delivery, giving birth, procreation), разбърквам (addle, agitate, clutter, derange, disarrange, disorder, jumble, mess up, mix, mix up, muddle, puddle, rumple, scramble, tousle, trouble, tumble, unbalance, unfix, unsettle), разхвърлени вещи, разхвърлям (clutter, disject, disseminate, mess, muss, overspread), сламена постеля, окотвам се (kitten). (various references) | |
Chinese | 胎 (fetus, the placenta, womb), 废弃物 (reject), 殘餘物 (trash). (various references) | |
Czech | smetí (garbage, rubbish, sweep, sweepings, trash), podestlat (bed), odpadky (garbage, oddments, offal, offscourings, refuse, rubbish, trash, trimmings), nosítka (stretcher), mít mladé. (various references) | |
Danish | båre (strecher). (various references) | |
Dutch | draagbaar (portable, strecher, stretcher). (various references) | |
Esperanto | portilo (strecher). (various references) | |
Faeroese | leypur (strecher), børa (strecher, stretcher). (various references) | |
Farsi | محمل , نوزادانی که جانوری دریک وهله میزاید, کجاوه , تخت روان (Bier, Palanquin), زایمان (Childbirth, Parturition, Throe), زاءیدن (Bear, Breed, Calve, Produce, Teem), اشغال پاشیدن , اشغال (Dump, Jakes, Junk, Occupancy, Occupation, Refuse, Riffraff, Rubbish, Scrap, Slag, Slither, Sliver, Swill, Tenure, Tot, Trash), ریخته وپاشیده , برانکار. (various references) | |
Finnish | roska (rubbish, trash). (various references) | |
French | portée, litière (forest litter), civière. (various references) | |
German | wurf (bodyslam, bowl, cast, fall, pitch, shot, shy, success, throw, throwing, toss), trage (hand barrow, pannier, stretcher), tragbahre (stretcher), streu (bedding, sawdust, straw), Bahre (bier, strecher, stretcher), abfall (apostasy, breakaway, breaking away, declension, defection, drop, garbage, offal, offall, refuse, rubbish, slide, trash, wastage, waste). (various references) | |
Greek | σκουπίδια (garbage, junk, refuse, rubbish, sweepings, trash), φορείο (sedan, sedan chair, stretcher). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מט" (bed, below, beneath, bier, couch, down, downward, sleeper, under, underneath), ל'רום אי ס"ר, פסולת (dregs, junk, offal, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, sweepings, trash, waste), אי ס"ר (chaos, disarray, disorder, mess, turmoil, untidiness), אשפ" (dirt, dung, dunghill, garbage, refuse, rubbish, sweepings, trash, waste), 'ורים. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hordágy (Barrow, stretcher). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tandu (bier), sampah (carrion, garbage, rubbish, trash). (various references) | |
Italian | strame (hay, straw), rifiuti (cull, garbage, offal, refuse, rubbish, sweepings, swill, trash), figliata (farrow), barella (Barrow, stretcher). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 輿 (bier, palanquin), 駕 (bier, palanquin), 駕篭 (bier, palanquin), 同腹" , 敷き藁 , 担架 (stretcher), 担架 (stretcher), 寝藁 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | た"か (31-syllable Japanese poem, carbonization, caustic words, red flower, stretcher, tanka, unit cost, unit price), しきわら, ねわら, どうふくし, か" (basket, bier, cage, divine protection, fault, mistake, non-standard pronunciation, palanquin), "し (ancient history, ancient poems, bier, dying, hip, historic ruins, old small shrine, palanquin, paper for recycling, used paper, withering). (various references) | |
Korean | 담가. (various references) | |
Manx | seiy (agitate, bear down, churn, churning, foment, fomentation, gore, gore of bull, knife, lunge, mix up, mixing, mixture, muddy; pushing, prod, propel, propulsion, protrusion, push, shove, shoving, stab, stick, stir, stir up, thrust, tilt, tilting, transfix), ortch, orchal (jumble, spoil), faiyragh (browse, graminaceous, grassy, verdant), cur fud y cheilley (bemuse, confuse, derange, disarray, disorganization, disorganize, embarrass, jumble, maze, perturb, puzzle, subvert; dislocation, tangle), coonlagh lhiabbagh (bed straw), brey (bear, calve, calving, drop, farrow, give birth, lay, produce, womb of animal), boanlagh (lumber, rubbish), aal (nest, sitting of eggs, young of animals; fork of table, young; fork), aailagh (brood, covey). (various references) | |
Norwegian | søppel (garbage), kull (coal, hatch). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | itterlay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ninhada (breed, clutch, farrow, hatch, nest, sitting), maca (barrow, doolie, hammock, hand-barrow). (various references) | |
Romanian | lecticã (palankeen, palanquin), targã (Barrow, hand-barrow, stretcher), resturi (draff, garbage, Grout, jetsam, leavings, odd-come-shorts, odds and ends, offal, parings, picking, refuse, remain, remains, remnants, rubbish, scrap, scraps, tailings, wreck), purcei abia fãtaţi, pataşcã, murdãrie (contamination, corruption, defilement, dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, dishonesty, dung, filth, filthiness, foulness, greasiness, grime, maculation, mess, muck, nastiness, naughty words, offscourings, ordure, puddle, refuse, rust, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, squalidity), murdãri (bedraggle, begrime, besmear, besmirch, blot, contaminate, defile, foul, mess, muck, muddy, pollute, puddle, slop, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, splash, splatter, spot, stain, sully, tarnish), gunoi (carrion, dirt, dung, garbage, kitchen stuff, manure, mess, muck, offscourings, refuse, rubbish, scum, soil, waste), fãta (calve, cast, farrow, fawn, foal, pup, whelp, yean), dezordine (clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disturbance, disturbances, glory-hole, havoc, hubbub, huddle, hugger mugger, mess, misrule, motley, riot, riots, rough, rout, topsy turvy, tumble, upset, welter), cãţeluşi abia fãtaţi, arunca hârtii, aşterne paie pentru, aşterne paie în. (various references) | |
Russian | соломенная подстилка, разбросанные вещи, разбрасывать (bestrew, disject, disseminate, intersperse, scatters, spread thin, strew), выводок (aerie, aery, brood, clutch, hatch, nest), носилки (doolie, hand-barrow, palankeen, palanquin, sedan chair, stretcher), мусорить сор;помет, мусор (garbage, gubbish, ordure, refuse, rubbish, slop, sweepings, trash), беспорядок (bewilderment, box-up, chaos, clutter, confusion, disarray, disorder, disorganization, huddle, hugger mugger, mess, messroom, misrule, mix, muss, pell mell, tangle, tumble, turbulence, turmoil, untidiness, upset), приплод (offspring), пороситься (farrow), помет (dung), подстилать. (various references) | |
Scottish | fortas, f rradh (litter in a boat, straw or brushwood in a boat). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | smeće (garbage, offscourings, raff, refuse, trash), razbacati (intersperse, scatter, winnow), prostirka (floorcloth, foot-cloth, rug), otpaci (dross, odds and ends, offal, refuse, sewage, stuff, trash), okot, nosiljka, nosila (bier, carry cot, hand-barrow, stretcher), napraviti smeće. (various references) | |
Spanish | camilla (hammock chair, hand-barrow, sofa, strecher, stretcher), camada (bedding, farrow), andas (bier, strecher, stretcher). (various references) | |
Swedish | skräp (debris, dross, duffer, garbage, junk, kitsch, lumber, pulp, rubbish, shoddy, trash, waste), förna (forest litter), bår (Barrow, bier, feretory, stretcher). (various references) | |
Turkish | yavrulamak (breed, calve, cub, drop, farrow, fawn, foal, have kitten, kid, kitten, pig, propagate, pup, spawn, teem, throw, whelp, yean), talaş sermek (litter down), tahtırevan (chair, palanquin, sedan, sedan chair), sedye (sedan, sedan chair, stretcher, wheeled bed), kedi kumu (cat litter), karıştırmak (add, admix, amalgamate, blend, churn, commingle, commix, complicate, concoct, confound, confuse, darken, diffuse, disarrange, disarray, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disorganize, disturb, embroil, entangle, ferret about, foul, foul up, hash, implicate, interfuse, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, involve, inweave, jumble, jumble together, jumble up, knot, make hay of smth., meld, mess, mess smth. about, mess up, mingle, mistake, mix, mix up, monkey around with, monkey with, muddle, muss, pick, poke, poke up, Ravel, ruffle, scramble, scramble together, scramble up, shuffle, snarl, stir, stir up, tamper with, tangle, tousle, trim, tumble, unsettle, weave), hayvanların altına serilen talaş, dağıtmak (be on the loose, bestrew, break on, crack up, deal, deal out, decompose, deliver, demount, deploy, diffuse, disband, disject, disjoint, dismantle, dispel, dispense, disperse, disrupt, dissipate, dissolve, distribute, divert, Dot, drown, fling off, hand out, issue, mete out, pass out, rag, rough up, ruffle, rumple, scatter, strew, tumble), dağınıklık (clutter, cock up, diffusiveness, disarrangement, disarray, disorganization, dispersion, untidiness, waywardness), döküntü (debris, detritus, dilapidated, dreg, excuse, fall out, fallout, heap, junk, refuse, residuum, rubbish, rubble, scrap, skin eruption, spoils, sweeps, tot, waste), bir batında doğan yavrular, çöp (brushing, chip, crud, discard, dregs, garbage, junk, leavings, mullock, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, straw, trash, waste). (various references) | |
Turkmen | zibil (garbage, trash). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | виводок (aerie, brood, nest), ноші (hand-barrow, sedan), підстилка (bedding, mat, underlay), підстилати (underlay), пороситися (farrow, pig). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | phân chu"ng lứa đẻ chó, mèo (tabby). (various references) | |
Welsh | llaesodr, torraid, torllwyth, sarnu (trample), sarn (causeway), mocha (pig), ael (aisle, brow). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | u. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | feretrum, lectica, lecticis, lectus, stramen, straminis. (various references) |
| Sanskrit | 300 BCE-Modern | palyanka-s. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | lectaria. (various references) |
| Anglo-French | 1100-1600 | litere. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 24, Verse 25 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai eipen autw kai acura kai cortasmata polla par' hmin kai topoV tou katalusai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et addidit dicens palearum quoque et faeni plurimum est apud nos et locus spatiosus ad manendum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And she addide, seiynge, Of chaf forsothe and of hey myche there is at vs, and a large place to dwelle. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And sayde moreouer vnto him: we haue litter and prauonder ynough and also rowme to lodge in. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | She said moreover to him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And she said, We have a great store of dry grass and cattle-food, and there is room for you. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 24, Verse 25 |
| Cebuano | Siya nag-ingon pa kaniya: Ingon usab sa among balay kami adunay dagami ug daghan nga kompay, ug dapit alang sa pagpahulay. |
| Croatian | Još mu doda: "Ima slame i p§iæe kod nas u obilju, a i mjesta za prenoæište." |
| Danish | og videre sagde hun: "Der er rigeligt både af Strå og Foder hos os og Plads til at overnatte " |
| Dutch | Voorts had zij tot hem gezegd: Ook is er stro en veel voeders bij ons, ook plaats om te vernachten. |
| Finnish | Ja hän sanoi hänelle vielä: "Meillä on runsaasti olkia ja rehua; myöskin yösijaa on meillä antaa". |
| French | Elle lui dit encore: Il y a chez nous de la paille et du fourrage en abondance, et aussi de la place pour passer la nuit. |
| German | und sagte weiter zu ihm: Es ist auch viel Stroh und Futter bei uns und Raum genug, zu beherbergen. |
| Haitian Creole | Li di l' anko: -Lakay nou, nou gen kont pay zèb pou chamo ou yo. Wa jwenn kote pou ou pase nwit la tou. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | "Di rumah kami ada tempat bermalam untuk Bapak dan juga banyak jerami dan makanan ternak." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Dan lagi kata dayang itu kepadanya: Adalah pada kami rumput kering dan makanan untapun cukup dan tempat tumpanganpun ada. |
| Italian | E soggiunse: «C'è paglia e foraggio in quantit da noi e anche posto per passare la notte». |
| Maori | A ka mea ano ia ki a ia, He nui a matou kakau witi, me a matou otaota hei kai, me tetahi wahi hoki hei moenga. |
| Norwegian | Så sa hun til ham: Det er fullt op både av halm og fôr hos oss, og det er også rum til å overnatte. |
| Portuguese | Disse-lhe mais: Temos palha e forragem bastante, e lugar para pousar. |
| Rumanian | Wi i -a zis mai departe: ,,Avem paie wi nutrey din belwug, wi este wi loc de gqzduit peste noapte.`` |
| Swedish | Och hon sade ytterligare till honom: "Vi hava rikligt med både halm och foder; natthärbärge kan du ock få." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "litter": litterateur, litterateurs, litterbag, litterbags, litterbug, litterbugs, littered, litterer, litterers, littering, littermate, littermates, litters, littery. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "litter": aglitter, antilitter, flitter, glitter, hairsplitter, outglitter, slitter, splitter. (additional references) | |
Words containing "litter": antilittering, flittered, flittering, flitters, glitterati, glittered, glittering, glitteringly, glitters, glittery, hairsplitters, outglittered, outglittering, outglitters, slitters, splitters. (additional references) | |
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"Litter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aliter, blitter, eliter, Iltr, latterr, Leiter, leter, letre, letterd, Lettner, lettre, Lhiattee, Lichtwer, Liitto, Litag, litar, lite, litel, litem, litera, litern, litet, litr, litre, litta, Littaur, Litte, litten, littera, littil, littor, littr, littre, loitter, lotter, Lutteur, Luttrel, lyttel, lyttyl. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "litter" (pronounced li"ter) |
| 4 | l i" t er | aglitter, glitter. |
| 3 | -i" t er | embitter, bitter, critter, fitter, fritter, hitter, knitter, quitter, Ritter, sitar, sitter, titter, transmitter. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tilter. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: liter, litre, relit, tiler, titer, title, titre, trite. | |
-2 letters: lier, lire, lite, riel, rile, rite, tier, tile, tilt, tire, tirl, tret. | |
-3 letters: ire, lei, let, lie, lit, rei, ret, tel, tet, tie, til. | |
-4 letters: el, er, et, it, li, re, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: brittle, flitter, glitter, kittler, litters, littery, littler, retitle, slitter, tertial, tilters, tortile, triolet, triplet, tritely. | |
+2 letters: aglitter, bitterly, blottier, brittled, brittler, brittles, detrital, filtrate, flitters, fruitlet, glitters, glittery, laterite, libretti, libretto, literate, literati, littered, litterer, nettlier, plottier, prettily, remittal, retitled, retitles, slitters, sluttier, splitter, tertials, titrable, toiletry, tractile, triethyl, triolets, triplets, triplite, troilite, trotline, whittler, wristlet. | |
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