What's the difference between garbage and junk?

Garbage


Definition:

  • (n.) Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome.
  • (v. t.) To strip of the bowels; to clean.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Apparent digestibility of dry matter, crude protein, ether extract, crude fiber, and nitrogen-free extract in garbage and control diets averaged 54.2 and 47.4, 50.0 and 41.3, 62.0 and 65.1, 53.1 and 42.3, and 61.8 and 54.5% as determined by chromium oxide technique.
  • (2) In a week that has witnessed Rachel Dolezal’s return , the Ashley Madison hack and those Gawker resignations , we didn’t need any more garbage news – and it’s only Wednesday.
  • (3) Is Mexico the diplomatic equivalent of the Pacific garbage patch: the place where failed negotiations go to die?
  • (4) But then a mismanaged clean-up in an underground garbage dump ignited a seam of anthracite eight miles long that proved impossible to extinguish.
  • (5) That’s when my attorney came.” Police arrested another man, whom the Guardian will call Anthony, in 2006 on charges of starting a garbage fire, and moved him to Homan Square.
  • (6) Other cities, such as London, have cleaned their rivers not just of visual garbage but also invisible pollutants.
  • (7) The clogged sewage drains, road-side garbage dumps and unplanned industrial waste management pose severe health hazards.
  • (8) I watched them drag him out like a piece of garbage.” Police say Robinson died after arriving at a local hospital, but Ennis disputed this.
  • (9) According to the New York Times , he told its reporter Emily Steel that if he did not approve of her resulting article “I’m coming after you with everything I have,” adding: “You can take it as a threat.” The 65-year-old anchor – who earlier dismissed the Mother Jones article as “total bullshit”, “disgusting”, “defamation” and “a piece of garbage” – had promised that the archive tapes would comprehensively disprove the charges against him.
  • (10) The river used to bring nothing but pollution but in the last five years or so there is cleaner water, more nutrients and less garbage,” he said, adding that other conservation and protection measures elsewhere in the region have also improved the ocean waters considerably.
  • (11) Dani Alves, who this week called the Spanish media “garbage” for the way it covers soccer, came off the bench in the second half and was loudly cheered by the Barcelona fans.
  • (12) It is composed of a garbage bin plus lid, attractant and insecticide-treated offal.
  • (13) So, the fans will be cold, but other than that, it seems the biggest impact this Arctic snap will have on the region will be down I-43 in the city of Sheboygan where garbage collection has been delayed.
  • (14) As chair of the campaign in Epping (population: 6,411), he spends 30 hours each week making phone calls, attending Republican meetings in his and surrounding towns, and visiting the local garbage dump to evangelize Trump as more than a flash in the pan.
  • (15) I can already feel it piling into the garbage segment of my political memory, so that one day in the future, Javid’s oaths will have become I, the undersigned, do hereby promise to defend John Major’s cones around Theresa May’s racist vans , protect them from the vandalism of ridicule, because that is the British way; to tolerate views you disagree with, including this stupid oath.
  • (16) It's significantly less garbage-tasting, and potent enough to suitably end the evening.
  • (17) I want a pile of powder meth, 500 hits of acid, a garbage bag filled with mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in.
  • (18) Terkel won a Pulitzer prize for these stories, like that of Hobart Foote, or Babe Secoli the supermarket checker, who described customers engaged in something less like shopping than dodgem cars with trolleys, and garbage man Nick Salerno, discoursing on his long experience of how people pack their rubbish: "You get just like the milkman's horse — used to it."
  • (19) That said, everyone in this election is literal garbage, even the candidates who aren’t publicly in denial about their own garbage bodies and brains.
  • (20) Read more “My street is cleaner,” people say, ignoring the fact that the 6,000 tonnes of garbage collected is being moved unsustainably to other parts of the city.

Junk


Definition:

  • (n.) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece. See Chunk.
  • (n.) Pieces of old cable or old cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
  • (n.) Old iron, or other metal, glass, paper, etc., bought and sold by junk dealers.
  • (n.) Hard salted beef supplied to ships.
  • (n.) A large vessel, without keel or prominent stem, and with huge masts in one piece, used by the Chinese, Japanese, Siamese, Malays, etc., in navigating their waters.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We propose that "junk" DNA in eucaryotes functions to maintain total DNA at an optimum concentration.
  • (2) People are eating a lot of junk food and rejecting traditional food,” he told the BBC .
  • (3) Russia’s credit rating has been downgraded to junk status for the first time in a decade due to the collapsing oil price, the tumbling value of the rouble and sanctions imposed because of its intervention in Ukraine.
  • (4) ITV's investment in children's programming has also been damaged by the ban on advertising junk food.
  • (5) At half-time time Pardew acted, junking his entire left side, bringing on Martin Kelly and Bakary Sako.
  • (6) • The following correction was published on 5 February 2012: "Downgrades, debt and junk: key questions about the eurozone crisis answered" (Business), said: "The [Eurozone financial stability facility] fund has already committed large sums to Greece, Ireland and Portugal and will need to raise more money should Italy and Spain need the same kind of help."
  • (7) Myths that suggest that the obese are inactive, eat differently, or eat more junk food suggest that obese individuals are socially deviant and justifies the intense discrimination directed against them.
  • (8) Long stretches of DNA previously dismissed as "junk" are in fact crucial to the way our genome works, an international team of researchers said on Wednesday.
  • (9) These include a mechanism to assess which shows have an "above average" appeal to under-16s and therefore cannot run any junk food ads.
  • (10) Russia is spending 2.3tn roubles (£22bn) to shore up its economy as sanctions bite and after its debt was downgraded to junk.
  • (11) Conservatives blame the problems of sexual violence on western values, immodest dress or even on the over-consumption of junk food.
  • (12) And who is leading the charge to junk our membership of the single market?
  • (13) For each trial of the DNMS task, two stimuli were randomly selected from a pool of 250 small "junk" objects; one member of the pair was designated as the sample.
  • (14) The Real Junk Food Project , a charity which operates a chain of “pay as you feel” cafés using surplus food, now has two Sharehouse food stores connected to its operations in Leeds and Sheffield.
  • (15) Numerous documents prove that executives at leading banks, credit agencies, and mortgage brokers were falsely touting assets as sound that knew were junk: the very definition of fraud.
  • (16) Spain defied renewed pressure to accept an international bailout on Thursday, a stance that could last for several more weeks or even months despite the humiliation of having its credit rating cut to near junk status.
  • (17) Stock markets around the world plunged today after Standard & Poor's cut Greece's credit rating to junk status and downgraded its view of Portugal in the clearest evidence yet that the European sovereign debt crisis is spreading.
  • (18) Any evidence of a fresh split among European policymakers will increase anxiety in the financial markets, which were rattled on Wednesday by news that ratings agency Moody's had downgraded Portugal's debt to junk status.
  • (19) Dr Aseem Malhotra, an NHS cardiologist who campaigns against junk food, said the study "adds further fuel to the fire that sugar really is the 'silent killer' and is independent of body weight".
  • (20) The attack happened in a normal part of Delhi, at 9pm and no one can possibly allege that she was behaving in a way that was 'not in keeping with Indian traditions' and all that junk," Gupta said.