Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Food wastes, as from a kitchen.
- noun Refuse; trash.
- noun A place or receptacle where rubbish is discarded.
- noun Worthless or nonsensical matter; rubbish.
- noun Inferior or offensive literary or artistic material.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To eviscerate; disembowel; gut; clean by removing the entrails of.
- noun Originally, the entrails of fowls, and afterward of any animal; now, offal or refuse organic matter in general; especially, the refuse animal and vegetable matter from a kitchen.
- noun Hence Any worthless, offensive matter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To strip of the bowels; to clean.
- noun Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Useless ordisposable material;waste material of any kind. - noun
Nonsense ;gibberish . - noun Something or someone
worthless . - noun computing
Data that cannot or will not beaccessed by a program, but are still taking up space. - noun computing Data that make no sense to the
program trying to use them. - verb transitive, obsolete To
eviscerate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a worthless message
- noun food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
- noun a receptacle where waste can be discarded
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Many times you'll hear the expression "garbage in, garbage out" when organizations talk about data in their CRM system.
Site Home Valerie Woolley 2011
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"When I first heard the phrase 'garbage patch,' I imagined something dense," he says.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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TM: The whole notion is that, with the right technology, there's value to be had from what we call garbage, that is taken to landfill -- if you can capture, sort, clean, and reintroduce it to the supply chain.
TreeHugger 2010
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Presumably ownership of the garbage is then with the City.
SCC: No Privacy Interest in Things We Throw Out : Law is Cool 2009
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Otherwise sealing the garbage is about the only way to go.
I have a GREAT German Shorthair whom i love to death. He is my right hand man, my best friend. 2009
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Otherwise sealing the garbage is about the only way to go.
I have a GREAT German Shorthair whom i love to death. He is my right hand man, my best friend. 2009
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Middle East, or the opportunities those wars provided for the oil-producing countries to organize and establish monopoly prices, the current price ratio between the monopoly price of oil and the price of sugar on what we call the garbage dump of the world market .... [changes thought] A large part of the sugar in the world is marketed through agreements, through prices set by agreement and not by the world market.
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He says the trash can be turned into treasure and he's proving it with what he calls the "garbage bank".
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This kind of garbage is entirely contrived by the media.
Matthew Yglesias » Dowd: Obama Should Act Like “Strong Father Who Protects the Home from Invaders” 2010
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I could care less about Sarah Palin, but this kind of garbage is the reason your party is in tatters.
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If, as they used to say, everyone has a book in them, AI has created a world where tech utopianists dream openly about excising the human part of writing a book — any amount of artistry or craft or even just sheer effort — and replacing it with machine-generated streams of text; as though putting in the labor of writing is a sucker’s game; as though caring whether or not what you’re reading is nonsense is only for elitists. The future is now, and it is filled with trash books that no one bothered to really write and that certainly no one wants to read. The saddest part about it, though, is that the garbage books don’t actually make that much money either. It’s even possible to lose money generating your low-quality ebook to sell on Kindle for $0.99. The way people make money these days is by teaching students the process of making a garbage ebook. It’s grift and garbage all the way down — and the people who ultimately lose out are the readers and writers who love books.
Amazon is filled with garbage ebooks. Here’s how they get made. Constance Grady 2024
chained_bear commented on the word garbage
Usage/historical note in comment on umble pie.
January 8, 2017