Litter vs. Kilo: What's the Difference?

Carelessly discarded refuse, such as wastepaper

A kilogram.

A disorderly accumulation of objects; a pile. “An iron washstand [stood] in the corner amidst a litter of soap and soiled towels” (Molly Gloss).

Clipping of kilogram

The group of offspring produced at one birth by a mammal.

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Material, such as straw, used as bedding for animals.

An abbreviation of Kilogram.

An absorbent material for covering the floor of an animal's cage or litterbox.

One thousand grams; the basic unit of mass adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites;

An enclosed or curtained couch mounted on shafts and used to carry a single passenger.

A flat supporting framework, such as a piece of canvas stretched between parallel shafts, for carrying a disabled or dead person; a stretcher.

Fallen leaves and other decaying organic matter that make up the top layer of a forest floor.

To give birth to (a litter).

To make untidy by discarding rubbish carelessly

To scatter about

To be scattered about (an area)

To include certain items such as expressions throughout (a speech or piece of writing, for example)

(Archaic) To supply (animals) with litter for bedding or floor covering.

To give birth to a litter.

To scatter litter.

(countable) A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.

The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.

(uncountable) Material used as bedding for animals.

(uncountable) Collectively, items discarded on the ground.

(uncountable) Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray

(uncountable) Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.

A covering of straw for plants.

(intransitive) To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).

(transitive) To scatter carelessly about.

(transitive) To strew (a place) with scattered articles.

(transitive) To give birth to, used of animals.

(intransitive) To produce a litter of young.

(transitive) To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.

(intransitive) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.

A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.

Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.

Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish.

Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter.

The young brought forth at one time, by a cat, dog, sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig.

To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.

To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.

To give birth to; to bear; - said of brutes, esp. those which produce more than one at a birth, and also of human beings, in abhorrence or contempt.

To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.

To produce a litter.

The offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal

Rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)

Conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers

Material used to provide a bed for animals

Strew;

Make a place messy by strewing garbage around

Give birth to a litter of animals