What's the difference between garbage and trash?

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.

Trash


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse.
  • (n.) Especially, loppings and leaves of trees, bruised sugar cane, or the like.
  • (n.) A worthless person.
  • (n.) A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.
  • (v. t.) To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop, as to trash the rattoons of sugar cane.
  • (v. t.) To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.
  • (v. t.) To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.
  • (v. i.) To follow with violence and trampling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) William Burroughs called the film director John Waters "the pope of trash".
  • (2) The public servants’ ethos, their attachment to the civic realm, has been systematically trashed as mere unionised self-interest.
  • (3) The phrase "Frankenfood" entered tabloid English at the turn of the last century when protesters, backed by the green movement, trashed GM crops wearing white overalls and face masks as an emotive PR tactic.
  • (4) I was told the Guardian had been too negative about Playboy in the past, and that they were also wary after a recent "trashing in the Sunday Times magazine – where Mr Hefner underwent a complete character assassination".
  • (5) "It's as if they are trying to trash the Copenhagen accord."
  • (6) It does not give people the right to come on to a green belt … and to trash it.
  • (7) There was trash talking though – motherflippers and Bad Words must fly about on court all the time ... Now and again you'd get trash talkers.
  • (8) Two years later, the offices of Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood were trashed after an all-night siege , with looters seizing door-labels of prominent Brotherhood leaders as trophies.
  • (9) We should be proud, actually, of what we've done, and we need to defend it a bit more, because they try to trash it, don't they?
  • (10) Putin could have been forgiven for allowing himself a wry grin, as another court comprehensively trashed Berezovsky's reputation.
  • (11) Adrian Clark, style director of Shortlist , is throwing a trailer-trash curveball: "a pair of vintage black leather Versace jeans with zips – wrong in all the right ways – Gucci biker boots and bespoke tailoring by Gieves & Hawkes , Richard James and Mr Start".
  • (12) The then education minister, Christopher Pyne, dismissed the call, saying the government didn’t as a rule trash funding agreements already in place.
  • (13) Iceland This strange and beautiful country is now as flooded with satellite trash as everywhere else, but is listed in the futile hope that the suppression it once practised might be revived.
  • (14) Hawaii, however, is in line for several deposits of tsunami trash.
  • (15) This is a guy whose last feature, Trash Humpers , was 80 minutes of old people shagging foliage.
  • (16) The potential for production of fine particulate from botanical trash materials plus lint and linters was determined in the laboratory by an abrasive milling test.
  • (17) "Mr Hester's job at RBS in the last three years has not been made any easier by the incompetence of EU politicians, whose inept and moribund approach to the sovereign debt crisis has trashed the banking sector's value.
  • (18) Coe claimed that Britain's international reputation would be "trashed" if it reneged on a promise given to retain the track that was made during the bidding process.
  • (19) The Greens argued the government was “trashing long-established legal norms”.
  • (20) In any case, the young woman, also a student at Florida State (or she was until she left campus earlier this year) is getting trashed all over the place : on sports sites, in newspaper comment sections, in bars where fans hang out.