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Definition: Trash |
TrashNoun1. Worthless material that is discarded. 2. Worthless people. 3. Nonsensical talk or writing. Verb1. Dispose of (something useless or old); "trash these old chairs;"; "junk an old car"; "scrap your old computer". 2. Express a totally negative opinion of; "The critics panned the performance". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "trash" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Trash vt. To destroy the contents of (said of a data structure). The most common of the family of near-synonyms including mung, mangle, scribble, and roach. Source: Jargon File. |
Environment | Material considered worthless or offensive that is thrown away. Generally defined as dry waste material, but in common usage it is a synonym for garbage, rubbish, or refuse. (references) |
Industry | A loose term embracing, in its widest sense, the foreign matter present in bales of raw cotton other than abnormal items such as stone, timber, pieces of old iron, etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
Multilingual Slang | Bielorussian (chujnia ), Spanish (zurrar ). (references) |
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(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: TrashSynonyms: applesauce (n), codswallop (n), folderol (n), rubbish (n), scum (n), tripe (n), trumpery (n), wish-wash (n), junk (v), pan (v), scrap (v), tear apart (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commonalty | Mob; rabble, rabble rout; chaff, rout, horde, canaille; scum of the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society; foex populi; trash; profanum vulgus, ignobile vulgus; vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail; small fry. |
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. |
Unimportance | Trumpery, trash, rubbish, stuff, fatras, frippery; " leather or prunello "; chaff, drug, froth bubble smoke, cobweb; weed; refuse; (inutility); scum; (dirt). |
Unmeaningness | Nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish; jargon, jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery, verbiage, babble, baverdage, baragouin, platitude, niaiserie; inanity; flap-doodle; rigmarole, rodomontade; truism; nugae canorae; twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug; stuff, stuff and nonsense; bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle-faddle; absurdity; vagueness; (unintelligibility). |
Worthlessness | Trash, garbage. |
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Screenplays | I'm richer than all this new Hollywood trash. Huh (Sunset Blvd.; writing credit: Charles Brackett) Or maybe you shouldn't go bringing me every little piece of trash you happen to pick up. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) Maybe we should trash the place, send them a little message (Dumb & Dumber; writing credit: Peter Farrelly; Bennett Yellin) And I dont see movies 'cause they're trash, and they ain't got nothin' but naked people in 'em (Steel Magnolias; writing credit: Robert Harling) Russell, there's beer cans in the trash in the kitchen (Bio-Dome; writing credit: Adam Leff; Mitchell Peck) | |
Lyrics | I’d rather keep the trash and throw you out, (Son Of A Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You); performing artist: Janet Jackson) Take out the papers and the trash ("Yakety Yak"; performing artist: The Coasters) Cuz I'm lookin' like class and he's looking like trash ("No Scrubs"; performing artist: TLC) | |
Clever | You're trailer trash when your junior prom had a day-care. (references; author: unknown) My next house will have no kitchen---just vending machines and a large trash can. (references; author: unknown) A husband is someone who after taking the trash out, gives the impression he just cleaned the whole house. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Trash (1970) Gutter Trash (1969) Trash Program (1963) Treasures from Trash (1946) Trash (2003) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Current meter with trash catcher to keep impeller from being fouled Deployed off of FERREL. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Ice floe passing by loaded with trash and waste from Point Barrow, 80 miles to the west. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Trash floating in the sea. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Removal of trash at Ft. McHenry, this site is a created wetland, the rip rap around the border was placed to stabilize the area. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Volunteers at Ft McHenry collect and remove bags of trash collected at the restoration site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Debris and trash on the Flat Pond Trail. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Trash left on roadway. Credit: Small World. |  | Members of the Randolph Air Force Base recycling center bale cardboard as part of the base's profitable recycling efforts. Air Education and Training Command is cashing in on trash, becoming the first federal agency to enter into a cooperative partnership. |
 | Norm Vigil, Northwest Field Team Leader and David Manzanares, RC&D Coordinator inspecting a trash rack to prevent debris from the Los Alamos fire from clogging roadway culvert. New Mexico. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |  | Trash rack to prevent debris from the Los Alamos fire from clogging roadway culvert. New Mexico. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
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| "Paper in the trash" by Erico Dias Commentary: "Paper in the trash." | "Trash" by Lorena Molinari Commentary: "A row of trash bins under a window, new york." |
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 | Banging a metal lid onto a metal trash can. |
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Author Unknown | The water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds. |
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Neverwhere | Neil Gaiman | "Garbage! Trash! Offal! Debris! Come and get it! Nothing whole or undamaged |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Nothing was left in it except trash. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Bury the feces, or place it in a plastic bag and then put it in the trash. (references) | |
Make sure that your trash cans and pet foods are secured so that they do not attract wild animals. (references) | ||
Clean your pet’s living area at least once a week. Feces should be either buried or bagged and disposed of in the trash. (references) | ||
Business | The paste squeeze out of the trash under 150 bars of pressure will go into biodigesters for composting. (references) | |
Thus, the landfills become little more than holes in the ground being filled up with trash, which is why they are cheap. (references) | ||
IOTA will take the waste from the existing trash collectors, sort it manually, then run it through 70 metric ton hydraulic presses. (references) | ||
Children | Jordan | Selling newspapers, tissues, small food items, or gum, the vendors, along with the other children who pick through trash dumpsters to find recyclable cans to sell, sometimes are the sole source of income for their families. (references) |
Economic History | Honduras | Municipal agencies also plan to privatize several sectors, including trash collection and water services. (references) |
Peru | Concerning solid waste, the 4,200 tons of trash generated per day in Lima is not properly collected and there is no formal recycling system. (references) | |
Human Rights | Mexico | He went through electronic magnetic doors, past video cameras and motion sensors to the trash depository, and then boarded a waiting laundry truck to exit the prison. (references) |
Political Rights | Qatar | The Council is a nonpartisan body that addresses local issues such as street repair, green space, trash collection, and public works projects. (references) |
Trade | France | Currently, an "NF Environment" label can be issued for paints, lubricants, trash bags, household chemicals, heating equipment, cosmetics, and insulating materials and papers. (references) |
Worker Rights | Brazil | UNICEF estimates that 50,000 children pick through trash dumps to generate income for their families. (references) |
Brazil | The program focused on removing children from work activities considered to be among the most hazardous by the Government, such as charcoal production, sugar cane harvesting, horticulture, brickmaking, mining, trash picking, shoe shining, and street peddling. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HYPOCHONDRIASIS, n. Depression of one's own spirits. Some heaps of trash upon a vacant lot Where long the village rubbish had been shot Displayed a sign among the stuff and stumps -- "Hypochondriasis." It meant The Dumps. Bogul S. Purvy |
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Gary Condit | You know, there's good and bad about that watch box thing. I can't throw the trash away at my house anymore. I happen to do the dishes, but I can't throw the trash away. |
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| "Trash" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "Trash" is used about 165 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) | 90.91% | 150 | 25,701 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5.45% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.03% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.61% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 165 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "trash": Cane trash ♦ poor white trash ♦ put the trash out ♦ talk a lot of trash ♦ talk trash ♦ trash bag ♦ trash barrel ♦ trash bin ♦ trash can ♦ trash collection ♦ trash dump ♦ trash heap ♦ Trash ice ♦ trash man ♦ trash pickup ♦ trash pile ♦ white trash. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "trash": Trash-80, trash-cans, trash-collecting, trash-filled, trash-heap, trash-ice, trash-strewn. | |
Ending with "trash": euro-trash, glam-trash, white-trash. | |
| 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 "trash"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shkarravira, plehra (dust, garbage, mullock, offal, offscourings, recrement, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, sweeping, sweepings, tailings, waste), gjepura (apple sauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blether, boloney, bosh, bunco, buncombe, bunk, bunko, claptrap, crap, drivel, drool, eyewash, fiddledeedee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flam, flannel, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, galimatias, gammon, hog-wash, hokum, humbug, jazz, jiggery pokery, moonshine, nonsense, palaver, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle, tosh, twaddle, vacuity, waffle, wish-wash). (various references) | |
Arabic | هراء (balderdash, baloney, boloney, bosh, bull, bunk, claptrap, drivel, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, fudge, hocus pocus, humbug, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, piffling, ramble, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, slush, tosh, trumpery, wind), نفاية (chaff, dump, garbage, junk, outcast, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scouring, short, slush, soil, swill, waste), قمامة (garbage, muck, mud, refuse, rubbish, soil, sweeping, sweepings, swill), قاذورات (garbage, rubbish, sweepings), سقط المتاع (junk, lumber, offal, raffle, rubbish, stuff, tat, write off), سرقة (larceny, lift, pilfering, pinch, plunder, robbery, steal, stealing, stealthiness, stick up, theft, thievery), زبالة (garbage, rubbish), رعاع (peat, rabble, riffraff), شخص تافه (bauble, black sheep, bugger, crumb, deformity, dog, insect, morsel, myrmidon, nitwit, peanut, pipsqueak, rag, sprat, swab, toad). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съчки (brushwood), кастря (carpet, crop, knife, lop, pare, pare off, prune, rap), клони, глупост (density, fatuity, fatuousness, fiddlestick, foolishness, foppery, hokum, inanity, ineptitude, insanity, nonsense, puerility, silliness, simplicity, stupidity, stupidness, thick skull, unreason, unwisdom), остатъци (debris, dregs, junk, leftovers, odd-come-shorts, oddments, odds and ends, offal, pickings, remainder, rinsings, waste), отпадъци (carrion, dregs, dross, garbage, husks, junk, leavings, litter, offal, pickings, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, scobs, scrapings, stock, throw out, throwaway, waste, write-offs), листа за кастрене, буламач (concoction, tripe), боклук (dirt, dross, dud, fug, garbage, junk heap, litter, mullock, odd-come-shorts, punk, raffle, rubbish, scrap heap, shoddy, spilth, tripe, waste), безвкусица, изхвърлям като ненужен, изметът на обществото. (various references) | |
Chinese | 垃圾 . (various references) | |
Czech | smetí (garbage, litter, rubbish, sweep, sweepings), odpadky (garbage, litter, oddments, offal, offscourings, refuse, rubbish, trimmings), nesmyslná řeè, klestí, brak (defective products, dog, junk, rubbish, waste), šmejd (dog, junk, shoddy, tripe, trumpery). (various references) | |
Danish | urenheder (companion elements, foreign body, foreign matter, impurities, impurity), ubrugelige plantedele, affald (arisings, detritus, discard, effluent, filter cake, garbage, going about, offcut, refuse, residue, salvage, scrap, waste). (various references) | |
Dutch | vuil (clippings, cuttings, debris, dirt, dirty, filth, filthy, foul, nasty, parings, refuse, rubbish, rubble, soiled, unclean, waste, windfall), onzuiverheden (congenerics, impurities), afval (apostasy, clippings, cuttings, debris, defection, garbage, leavings, parings, refuse, remainder, rest, rubbish, rubble, waste, windfall). (various references) | |
Farsi | مهمل (Nonsense, Preposterous, Trashy, Waggish), زواءدگیاهان , خاکروبه (Rummage), اشغال (Dump, Jakes, Junk, Litter, Occupancy, Occupation, Refuse, Riffraff, Rubbish, Scrap, Slag, Slither, Sliver, Swill, Tenure, Tot), بصورت اشغال دراوردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | törky (dirt, filth, garbage, refuse, rubbish), roska (litter, rubbish), rihkama (baubles, finery, frippery, gewgaws, knick-knacks). (various references) | |
French | vandalisme, saloperie, populace, ordure, impuretés, impureté, immondices, foutriquet, déchets, cochonneries, camelote (trumpery), blague (trick). (various references) | |
German | Abfall (apostasy, breakaway, breaking away, declension, defection, drop, garbage, litter, offal, offall, refuse, rubbish, slide, wastage, waste), Schund (muck, rubbish, shoddy), Plunder (deadwood, junk, plunder, rubbish), Kitsch (hokum, kitsch, slush), Ausschuss (board, caucus, committee, exit point, exit wound, reject, rejects). (various references) | |
Greek | σκύβαλα (refuse), σκουπίδια (garbage, junk, litter, refuse, rubbish, sweepings), ξένες ύλες, άχρηστα (discard, offcut, scrap, waste), ακαθαρσία (dirt, filth, impureness, impurity, lousiness, ordure, soil), απορρίμματα (dross, litter, offal, offscourings, refuse). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שטויות (applesauce, balderdash, baloney, bunk, drivel, moonshine, nonsense, nuts, rot, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, tommyrot, tosh, trumpery), פסולת (dregs, junk, litter, offal, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, sweepings, waste), פח אשפה (dustbin, garbage can), אשפה (dirt, dung, dunghill, garbage, litter, refuse, rubbish, sweepings, waste), זבל (compost, dung, excrement, garbage, manure, ordure, rubbish), אספסוף (hoi polloi, mob, rabble, ragtag, riffraff). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szemét (dreck, dross, garbage, have no end of money, litter, offal, punk, rubbish, rubbishy, scum, sleaze, sleazo, sleazy, snotty, sodding, stinky, sweepings), limlom (bric-a-brac, junk, lumber, odds and ends, rattletraps, rummage, stuff), söpredék (dregs, offscourings, rabble, raff, ragtag, riff raff, scum, scurf, sweepings), ponyvairodalom (dross), ponyva (dreadful, penny dreadful, sheet, shilling dreadful, yellow-back), ostoba beszéd (bilge, fooling about, rot, tosh), giccs (hokum, kitsch, mush, slush, sob stuff, squish), alja nép. (various references) | |
Indonesian | sampah (carrion, garbage, litter, rubbish), ampas (dregs, less, settlings, waste). (various references) | |
Italian | spazzatura (dust, garbage, junk mail, rubbish), sciocchezza (balderdash, flapdoodle, Folly, foolish thing, foolishness, idiocy, malarkey, nonsense, silliness, stupidity, trifle), schifezza (disgusting thing, filth), robaccia (rubbish), rifiuti (cull, garbage, litter, offal, refuse, rubbish, sweepings, swill), porcheria (dirt, dirtiness, dirty trick, disgusting food, filth, muck, obscenity, rubbish), pezzente (crook, ragamuffin, tramp, villain), impurità (impure, impurity), immondizie (litter, refuse, rubbish), ciarpame (rubbish), cascami (garbage, refuse, waste). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 駄物 (low-grade stuff), 選り屑 , 瓦落多 (junk, rubbish), トラック競技 (track events, trad, trap, trapping), 廃物 (useless article), 廃棄物 (garbage, waste, waste matter), 塵芥 (rubbish), 塵 (dirt, dust, garbage, rubbish). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がらくた (junk, rubbish), トラッシュ , ごみ (garbage, rubbish), よりくず, じんかい (rubbish, this drab world), はいきぶつ (garbage, waste, waste matter), ちりあくた (rubbish), えりくず, だもの (low-grade stuff). (various references) | |
Korean | 쓰레기 (garbage, junk). (various references) | |
Manx | trustyr (deads, debris, dirt, dross, filth, garbage, junk, muck, muckiness, nastiness, refuse, rubbish, scrap, trash rubbish), orch (clutter, debris, leaving of fodder, refuse, trash rubbish, wastage). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ashtray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | refugo (cull, dirt, garbage, jetsam, mullock, offal, offscourings, raffle, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scum, spoilage, trumpery, waste). (various references) | |
Romanian | vechituri (junk, lumber, odds and ends, pedlary, rubbish), rebut (jetsam, refuse, reject, rubbish, scrap, scum, spoilage), prostii (apple-sauce, balderdash, bosh, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, fudge, gammon, moonshine, mush, nonsense, poppy-cock, rats, rubbish, skittles, stuff and nonsense, tosh, tripe), operã de artã fãrã valoare, fleac (a piece of cake, bauble, bunkum, chaff, doit, fillip, flapdoodle, flea-bite, flummery, fribble, kickshaw, knick knack, nil, nothing, nothingness, peppercorn, pin head, push over, rot, rubbish, rubble, small beer, stiver, tittle tattle, trifle, trinket), brac (harrier, refuse), boarfã (rags, togs). (various references) | |
Russian | халтура (bust, hackwork, potboiler, quickie, schlock), мусор (garbage, gubbish, litter, ordure, refuse, rubbish, slop, sweepings), макулатура (waste paper, wastepaper, waste-paper), дрянь (draff, gunk, nit, rotter, schlock, stuff). (various references) | |
Scottish | trog (raise), trealaich (baggage, lumber), smolamas, draos, bròchlaid. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | smeće (garbage, litter, offscourings, raff, refuse), pokopati (bury, dig, inhume), otpadak (recrement, refuse, rubbish), otpaci (dross, litter, odds and ends, offal, refuse, sewage, stuff), ološ (canaille, rabble, ragtag, riff raff, riffraff, scrum, scum, wreckage), lom (breakage, breaking, rubble, ruckus, rumpus), demolirati (demolish), bofl, đubre (dung, fertilizer, garbage, junk, laystall, muck, offscourings, ordure, rubbish, sweepings), šund (pap). (various references) | |
Spanish | basura (catlap, dirt, draff, dregs, dust, dustbin, garbage, junk, leak, litter, mullock, refuse, rubbish, scourings, tat, waste). (various references) | |
Swedish | skräp (debris, dross, duffer, garbage, junk, kitsch, litter, lumber, pulp, rubbish, shoddy, waste). (various references) | |
Turkish | saçmalık (absurdity, applesauce, balderdash, bilge, blather, blatherskite, blether, bosh, drivel, extravagance, eyewash, farce, fatuity, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, gab, galimatias, gassing, gibberish, guff, hog-wash, hokum, hooey, inanity, ineptitude, ineptness, insanity, irrationality, lark, malarkey, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, shenanigan, silliness, spinach, stuff, talkee-talkee, the irrational, triviality, twaddle, vacuity, whimsicality, whimsicalness, wind, wishy-wash), saçma (absurd, applesauce, balls, baloney, blind, boloney, bunk, bunkum, chimerical, claptrap, cockeyed, dissemination, eradiation, fantastic, fantastical, farcical, fatuous, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlesticks, foolish, for the birds, froth, frothy, fudge, go on, hog-wash, hooey, impertinent, inane, incongruous, inept, irrational, jabber wocky, kibosh, laugh, malarkey, nonsense, nonsensical, outlandish, paltry, pointless, poppycock, raving, rhubarb, rot, scattering, senseless, shot, shucks, skittles, small shot, smearcase, sorry, spinach, stuff, tommyrot, tosh, trifling, tripe, trivial, trumpery, unreasonable, wacky, waffle, whacky), işe yaramaz şey (offcast, rubbish), fasa fiso (nonsense, rush), beş para etmez adam, çerçöp (brushwood, crap, dirt, offal, offscourings), çöp (brushing, chip, crud, discard, dregs, garbage, junk, leavings, litter, mullock, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, straw, waste). (various references) | |
Turkmen | zibil (garbage, litter), hapa (dirt, dirty, mud). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | халтура (bungling, hackwork, potboiler, quickie, slapdash, snobbery), очищати від сміття, покидьки (cast, cull, dross, offal, offscum, outcast, overcast, paltry, peltry, refuse, rejectamenta, scruff), дурниця (absurdity, absurdness, applesauce, balderdash, ballyhoo, bosh, buncombe, froth, humbug, mush, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, porridge, rigmarole, rubbish, sappiness, shucks, slum, tripe). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bã (cane-trash), đồ cặn bã. (various references) | |
Welsh | ysbwriel (refuse, rubbish), sothach (garbage, refuse, rubbish), gwehilion (refuse, riff-raff). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | noga, nugaces, nugas, purgamentum, quisquiliae, quisquiliae, quisquiliarum, scruta. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "trash": trashed, trashes, trashier, trashiest, trashily, trashiness, trashinesses, trashing, trashman, trashmen, trashy. (additional references) | |
Words containing "trash": ultrasharp, ultrashort. (additional references) | |
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"Trash" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Drazh, Krash, Kryazh, strash, tash, trach, trah, transh, transhe, trask, trasn, trassi, trast, traz, traze, treash, treh, Tresch, tresh, trich, trish, trisy, trohs, Tropsch, truch, trush. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "trash" (pronounced tra"sh) |
| 3 | -r a" sh | brash, crash, precrash, rash, thrash. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: harts, tahrs. | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: arts, hart, hast, hats, rash, rath, rats, star, tahr, tars, tsar. | |
-2 letters: ars, art, ash, has, hat, rah, ras, rat, sat, sha, tar, tas. | |
-3 letters: ah, ar, as, at, ha, sh, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: airths, arhats, charts, earths, garths, haters, hearts, starch, strath, swarth, tharms, thrash, thraws, torahs, trashy, wraths. | |
+2 letters: aethers, anthers, ashtray, athirst, authors, bathers, berthas, breaths, chaster, dearths, earshot, fathers, gathers, hafters, halters, hamster, hardest, hardset, harlots, harpist, harslet, hartals, harvest, hastier, hatreds, hatters, hearths, heaters, kashrut, lathers, rachets, rashest, ratches, ratfish, rattish, reheats, scratch, shatter, shortia, slather, starchy, straths, swarths, swarthy, swather, tarbush, tarnish, tartish, tephras, thairms, thalers, thawers, thenars, thirams, thorias, thralls, thraves, threads, threaps, threats, throats, thwarts, trashed, trashes, trishaw, warmths, wraiths, wreaths. | |
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