litter
noun · verb · adjectiveA2Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(uncountable)Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.
Quen he had made me hale and fere
- 2.
(countable)A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs.
... In a lytter made tho full royall...
- 3.
(obsolete, uncountable)Synonym of straw, grass, etc. more generally, particularly in plaster, thatch, and mulch.
Đồng nghĩa: straw, grass
- 4.
(countable, obsolete)An act of giving birth to a number of live young at the same time.
- 5.
(collective, countable)The whole group of live young born at the same time, typically in reference to mammals or (figurative, derogatory) unpleasant people or objects.
Strongly-marked differences occasionally appear in the young of the same litter.
The runt of the litter is the smallest or weakest of a group of puppies born together.
- 6.
(uncountable)Waste or debris, originally any mess but now particularly trash left or thrown on the ground.
Near-synonyms: garbage; see also Thesaurus:trash
What are you doing?! There's a litter bin not three feet away.
In the case of a simple problem such as littering, the success or failure of a solution can immediately be assessed once and for all. A successful solution is one that results in no litter being present. Assuming the solution did not involve summarily executing anyone suspected of being about to drop litter, it is unlikely to have significant second-order effects.
Đồng nghĩa: garbage, cultch, crap, debris, dreck, drek, garbage, gash, junk, litter, pelf, piece of crap, piece of garbage, piece of shit, pile of crap, pile of shit, piece of trash, rubbish, refuse, roughage, service item, shit, stuff, trash, waste
- 7.
(countable, uncommon)A bed, a substrate formed from loose materials.
- 8.
(uncountable)The layer of fallen leaves and other loose organic material on the ground in a forest.
Litter, that portion of the forest floor which is not in an advanced state of decomposition.
Forest animals use leaf litter in a variety of ways, including as food, shelter, nesting material, bedding, and camouflage.
- 9.
(uncountable)Fuller's earth, clay pellets, wood chips, or other similar loose absorbent materials used for the waste of pet animals.
Change the cat litter fer chrissakes. This place reeks.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
By tossing the bottle out the window, he was littering.
- 2.
(transitive)To scatter carelessly about.
- 3.
(transitive)To strew (a place) with scattered articles.
- 4.
(transitive)To give birth to, in the manner of animals.
- 5.
(intransitive)To produce a litter of young.
- 6.
(transitive)To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
- 7.
(intransitive)To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(comparative, form of)comparative form of lit: more lit
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