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# garbage

«garbage» in Mova's school dictionary: **Rubbish; food waste and other things you throw away** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (garbage — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (mainly US, Canada) Rubbish; food waste and other things you throw away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garbage/#m1)

2) (informal) Nonsense; things that are untrue or very bad: That film was garbage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garbage/#m2)

3) (computers) Useless or meaningless data. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garbage/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life in North America people take out the garbage and put it in the garbage can; in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand people say «rubbish» and «bin». In science lessons garbage is sorted for recycling. Phrases: «take out the garbage», «garbage truck», «garbage can», «talk garbage».

### examples

- It's your turn to take out the garbage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garbage/#x1)
- The garbage truck comes on Tuesdays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garbage/#x2)
- Put the banana peel in the garbage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garbage/#x3)
- Don't talk garbage — of course you can do it! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garbage/#x4)
- We sorted the garbage into paper, plastic and food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garbage/#x5)
- A family throws away about 20 kg of garbage a week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garbage/#x6)

### note

Uncountable: «some garbage», «a bag of garbage», never «garbages». US/Canada: garbage, trash; UK/Australia/Ireland/NZ: rubbish; Australia also «garbo» (slang for the garbage collector). Meaning 2 is informal.

### In the corpora

- ["Sanitation engineer" is a joking or puffed-up name for a rubbish or garbage collector (US).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/24/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «garbage» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/garbage/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.