garbage (noun)
1garbage — noun ⇨ See also ↑rubbish, ↑trash 1 (esp. AmE) waste material ADJECTIVE ▪ household, kitchen (AmE) ▪ rotting … OF GARBAGE ▪ bag …
2garbage — ► NOUN chiefly N. Amer. 1) domestic rubbish or waste. 2) something worthless or meaningless. ORIGIN originally in the sense «offal»: from Old French …
3garbage collector — noun someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑garbage man, ↑garbageman, ↑garbage carter, ↑garbage hauler, ↑refuse collector, ↑dustman • Hypernyms: ↑ …
4garbage in, garbage out — garbage ˌin, garbage ˈout written abbreviation GIGO COMPUTING used to say that if you put bad information into a computer, you will get bad results * * * garbage in, garbage out UK US noun [U] ► GIGO(Cf. ↑ …
5garbage collector — noun a) An algorithm, procedure or thread dedicated to garbage collection: reclaiming resources which are no longer in use. b) A sanitation engineer; a worker who removes refuse. Syn: bin man, dustman, garbage man, garbo, refuse collector, sanit …
6garbage collection — noun a) A service, generally run by local government, for transporting household garbage to the appropriate facility. Automatic garbage collection isn’t foolproof, but it eliminates large classes of memory errors. b) A mechanism which ensures… …
7garbage — noun (U) 1 especially AmE waste material, such as paper, empty containers, and food thrown away; rubbish 1 (1) BrE: Can you take the garbage out when you go? 2 stupid words, ideas etc: You re talking garbage. 3 garbage in, garbage out used to say …
8garbage carter — noun someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse • Syn: ↑garbage man, ↑garbageman, ↑garbage collector, ↑garbage hauler, ↑refuse collector, ↑dustman • Hypernyms: ↑hauler, ↑ …
9garbage hauler — noun someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse • Syn: ↑garbage man, ↑garbageman, ↑garbage collector, ↑garbage carter, ↑refuse collector, ↑dustman • Hypernyms: ↑hauler, ↑ …
10garbage man — noun someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse • Syn: ↑garbageman, ↑garbage collector, ↑garbage carter, ↑garbage hauler, ↑refuse collector, ↑dustman • Hypernyms: ↑hauler, ↑ …
