Litter

  • 21litter — noun 1》 rubbish left in public.     ↘a collection of things lying about untidily. 2》 a number of young born to an animal at one time. 3》 (also cat litter) granular absorbent material lining a tray for a cat to urinate and defecate in indoors. 4》… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 22litter — 1. noun 1) never drop litter Syn: garbage, refuse, junk, waste, debris, scraps, leavings, fragments, detritus, trash, rubbish 2) the litter of papers around her Syn: clutter …

    Thesaurus of popular words

  • 23litter — 1. A stretcher or portable couch for moving the sick or injured. 2. A group of animals of the same parents, born at the same time. SYN: brood (1). [Fr. litière; fr. lit, bed] * * * lit·ter lit ər n 1) a device (as a stretcher) for carrying a sick …

    Medical dictionary

  • 24litter — n 1. rubbish, scattered rubbish, refuse, debris, junk, trash, motley collection; tumble, tangle, shreds, odds and ends, hodgepodge, hash, mishmash, muddle, rummage; ollapodrida, Inf. stew, Inf.Duke s mixture, accumulation. 2. disorder, untidiness …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • 25litter — 1. noun 1) never drop litter Syn: rubbish, refuse, junk, waste, debris; N.Amer. trash, garbage 2) the litter of glasses around her Syn: clutter, jumble, muddle, mess, h …

    Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

  • 26Litter —    (Heb. tsab, as being lightly and gently borne), a sedan or palanquin for the conveyance of persons of rank (Isa. 66:20). In Num. 7:3, the words covered wagons are more literally carts of the litter kind. There they denote large and commodious… …

    Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • 27litter — Synonyms and related words: air mattress, arsy varsiness, be confined, bear, bear a child, bear young, bed, bed down, bedding, bedstead, bier, bolster, brancard, break, bridle, brood, brush, bunk, cacolet, calve, camel litter, cast, clamjamfry,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 28litter — [13] The word litter has come a long way semantically since it was born, from ‘bed’ to 313 lobster ‘rubbish scattered untidily’. It goes back ultimately to Latin lectus ‘bed’, a distant relative of English lie and source of French lit ‘bed’… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 29litter — [ˈlɪtə] noun I 1) [U] things that people have dropped on the ground in a public place, making it untidy 2) [C] a group of baby animals that are born at the same time II verb [T] litter [ˈlɪtə] 1) be littered with if a place is littered with… …

    Dictionary for writing and speaking English

  • 30litter — kraikas statusas Aprobuotas sritis gyvulininkystė apibrėžtis Medžiagos, tinkamos gyvūnų laikymo vietoms kreikti. atitikmenys: angl. bedding; litter vok. Streu, f rus. подстилка pranc. litière, f ryšiai: sinonimas – pakratai šaltinis Lietuvos… …

    Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)