trash
noun/træʃ/
[uncountable]Слово англійською: trash
Переклад trash українською: сміття́, халту́ра, брак (нея́кісний това́р), сміттє́вий бак
Детальний опис
- (North American English) things that you throw away because you no longer want or need them
- Don't forget to take out the trash.
British/American rubbish / garbage / trash / refuserubbish / garbage / trash / refusesee also garbage- Rubbish is the usual word in British English for the things that you throw away because you no longer want or need them. Garbage and trash are both used in North American English. Inside the home, garbage tends to mean waste food and other wet material, while trash is paper, card and dry material.
- In British English, you put your rubbish in a dustbin in the street to be collected by the dustmen. In North American English, your garbage and trash goes in a garbage can/trashcan in the street and is collected by garbage men/collectors.
- Refuse is a formal word and is used in both British English and North American English. Refuse collector is the formal word for a dustman or garbage collector.
- (informal, disapproving) objects, writing, ideas, etc. that you think are of poor quality
- What's this trash you're watching?
- (especially British English) He's talking trash (= nonsense).
- (North American English, informal) an offensive word used to describe people that you do not respect see also trailer trash, white trash
Word Originlate Middle English: of unknown origin. The verb is first recorded (mid 18th cent.) as meaning ‘to strip (sugar canes) of their outer leaves to ripen faster’; the current senses have arisen in the 20th cent.