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gar⋅bage
[gahr-bij] 
bɪdʒ
–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. |
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| gar·bage (gär'bĭj) n.
[Middle English, offal from fowls.] |
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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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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