Waste vs. Litter
Difference Between Waste and Litter
Wastenoun
Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
Litternoun
(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.
Wastenoun
Excrement or urine.
The cage was littered with animal wasteLitternoun
The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.
Wastenoun
A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
Litternoun
(uncountable) Material used as bedding for animals.
Wastenoun
A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
Litternoun
(uncountable) Collectively, items discarded on the ground.
Wastenoun
A large tract of uncultivated land.
Litternoun
(uncountable) Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray
Wastenoun
(historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
Litternoun
(uncountable) Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.
Wastenoun
A vast expanse of water.
Litternoun
A covering of straw for plants.
Wastenoun
A disused mine or part of one.
Litterverb
(intransitive) To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
Wastenoun
The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
That was a waste of timeHer life seemed a wasteLitterverb
(transitive) To scatter carelessly about.
Wastenoun
Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
Litterverb
(transitive) To strew (a place) with scattered articles.
Wastenoun
Gradual loss or decay.
Litterverb
(transitive) To give birth to, used of animals.
Wastenoun
A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away.
Litterverb
(intransitive) To produce a litter of young.
Wastenoun
(rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste"
Litterverb
(transitive) To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
Wastenoun
(legal) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
Litterverb
(intransitive) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
Wastenoun
(geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
Litternoun
the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal
Wasteadjective
Uncultivated, uninhabited.
Litternoun
rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)
Wasteadjective
Barren; desert.
Litternoun
conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers
Wasteadjective
Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
Litternoun
material used to provide a bed for animals
Wasteadjective
Superfluous; needless.
Litterverb
strew;
Cigar butts littered the groundWasteadjective
Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
Litterverb
make a place messy by strewing garbage around
Wasteadjective
Unfortunate; disappointing. en
Litterverb
give birth to a litter of animals
Wasteverb
(transitive) to devastate, destroy
Wasteverb
(transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
We wasted millions of dollars and several years on that project.Wasteverb
To kill; to murder.
Wasteverb
(transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
Wasteverb
(intransitive) Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
Wasteverb
(intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
Wasteverb
(legal) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
Wastenoun
any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted;
they collect the waste once a weekmuch of the waste material is carried off in the sewersWastenoun
useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly;
if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a wastemindless dissipation of natural resourcesWastenoun
the trait of wasting resources;
a life characterized by thriftlessness and wastethe wastefulness of missed opportunitiesWastenoun
an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation;
the barrens of central Africathe trackless wastes of the desertWastenoun
(law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect
Wasteverb
spend thoughtlessly; throw away;
He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friendsYou squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degreeWasteverb
use inefficiently or inappropriately;
waste heatwaste a joke on an unappreciative audienceWasteverb
get rid of;
We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewerWasteverb
run off as waste;
The water wastes back into the oceanWasteverb
get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing;
The mafia liquidated the informerthe double agent was neutralizedWasteverb
spend extravagantly;
waste not, want notWasteverb
lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief;
After her husband died, she just pined awayWasteverb
cause to grow thin or weak;
The treatment emaciated himWasteverb
devastate or ravage;
The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasionWasteverb
waste away;
Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the worldWasteadjective
disposed of as useless;
waste paperWasteadjective
located in a dismal or remote area; desolate;
a desert islanda godforsaken wilderness crossroadsa wild stretch of landwaste places
