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garbage - 5 dictionary results

gar⋅bage

[gahr-bij]
–noun
1. discarded animal and vegetable matter, as from a kitchen; refuse.
2. any matter that is no longer wanted or needed; trash.
3. anything that is contemptibly worthless, inferior, or vile: There's nothing but garbage on TV tonight.
4. worthless talk; lies; foolishness.
5. Slang. any unnecessary item added to something else, as for appearance only; garnish: I'll have an Old Fashioned, but without the garbage.
6. useless artificial satellites or parts of rockets floating in space, as satellites that are no longer transmitting information or rocket boosters jettisoned in flight.
7. Computers. meaningless or unwanted data: That program was not properly debugged and produced nothing but garbage.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME: discarded parts of butchered fowls; compared with garbelage the removal of waste from spices (< AF, OF; see garble, -age ) or OF garbage tax on sheaves of grain, though shift of sense, and form in first case, is unclear


2. litter, refuse, junk, rubbish.
gar·bage   (gär'bĭj)   
n.  
    1. Food wastes, as from a kitchen.
    2. Refuse; trash.
    3. Worthless or nonsensical matter; rubbish: Their advice turned out to be nothing but garbage.
    4. Inferior or offensive literary or artistic material.
  1. A place or receptacle where rubbish is discarded: tossed the apple core into the garbage.
    1. Worthless or nonsensical matter; rubbish: Their advice turned out to be nothing but garbage.
    2. Inferior or offensive literary or artistic material.
  2. Computer Science Incorrect, meaningless, or unwanted data.

[Middle English, offal from fowls.]

Garbage

Gar"bage\ (?; 48), n. [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.] Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome. --Grainger.

Garbage

Gar"bage\, v. t. To strip of the bowels; to clean. "Pilchards . . . are garbaged." --Holland.
Language Translation for : garbage
Spanish: basura,
German: der Abfall,
Japanese: ごみ

garbage 
1422, originally "giblets of a fowl, waste parts of an animal," later confused with garble in its sense of "siftings, refuse." Many M.E. cookery terms came from Anglo-Fr., so perhaps it is related to O.Fr. jarbage "a bundle of sheaves, entrails," from P.Gmc. *garba-, from PIE *ghrebh- "a handful, a grasp." Sense of "refuse" is first attested 1583. Garbology "study of waste as a social science" is from 1976.
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