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Rubbish Heap

Definition: Rubbish Heap

Rubbish Heap

Noun

1. An accumulation of refuse and discarded matter.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonyms: Rubbish Heap

Synonyms: garbage heap (n), junk heap (n), junk pile (n), refuse heap (n), scrapheap (n), trash heap (n), trash pile (n). (additional references)

Synonyms within Context: Rubbish Heap

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
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.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Commercial Usage: Rubbish Heap

Domain	Title
Books	Sexual Abuse: The Child's Voice: Poppies on the Rubbish Heap (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Photo Album: Rubbish Heap

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The world's children: on a Korean rubbish heap. / UNICEF photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Modern Translation: Rubbish Heap

Language		Translations for "rubbish heap"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Finnish		rikkaläjä. (various references)

German		abfallhaufen (brash, refuse dump). (various references)

Hungarian		szemétdomb (clamp, dunghill, garbage heap, midden, refuse dump, tip). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		掃き溜め (garbage dump). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		はき� め (garbage dump). (various references)

Manx		carnane tustyr. (various references)

Pig Latin		ubbishray eaphay

Swedish		skräphög (rubbish-heap). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Rubbish Heap

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-b-e-h-h-i-p-r-s-u"
	-3 letters: shabbier.
	-4 letters: bearish, beauish, bushier, harpies, hubbies, pushier, rabbies, rhaphes, rubbish, rupiahs, sharpie, upbears, upraise.
	-5 letters: abuser, airbus, ashier, aspire, babies, barbes, basher, braise, bribes, bruise, buries, bursae, busbar, busher, busier, ephahs, hubris, pareus, paries, parish, pauser, perish, phrase, prahus, praise, pusher, rabbis, rabies, raphes, raphis, rehabs, rehash, reship, rhaphe, rubies, rupiah, seraph.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album

5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography

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