Junk vs. Garbage
Difference Between Junk and Garbage
Junknoun
Discarded material, such as glass, rags, paper, or metal, some of which may be reused in some form.
Garbagenoun
Food wastes, as from a kitchen.
Junknoun
Articles that are worn-out or fit to be discarded
broken furniture and other junk in the attic.Garbagenoun
Refuse; trash.
Junknoun
Cheap or shoddy material.
Garbagenoun
A place or receptacle where rubbish is discarded
tossed the apple core into the garbage.Junknoun
Something meaningless, fatuous, or unbelievable
nothing but junk in the annual report.Garbagenoun
Worthless or nonsensical matter; rubbish
Their advice turned out to be nothing but garbage.Junknoun
The genitals.
Garbagenoun
Inferior or offensive literary or artistic material.
Junknoun
The buttocks.
Garbagenoun
(obsolete) The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
Junknoun
(Slang) Heroin.
Garbagenoun
Food waste material of any kind.
Garbage is collected on Tuesdays; rubbish on FridaysJunknoun
Hard salt beef for consumption on board a ship.
Garbagenoun
Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.Junknoun
A traditional Chinese sailing vessel having a high poop and usually two or more masts bearing battened lugsails.
Garbagenoun
A place or receptacle for waste material.
He threw the newspaper into the garbage.Junkverb
To discard as useless or sell to be reused as parts; scrap.
Garbagenoun
Nonsense; gibberish.
Junkadjective
Cheap, shoddy, or worthless
junk jewelry.Garbagenoun
Something or someone worthless.
Junkadjective
Having a superficial appeal or utility, but lacking substance
"the junk issues that have dominated this year's election" (New Republic).Garbageverb
to eviscerate
Junkadjective
Relating to or similar to junk bonds, especially in having a high risk of default
debt of junk status.Garbagenoun
food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
Junknoun
Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.
Garbagenoun
a worthless message
Junknoun
A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
Garbagenoun
a receptacle where garbage is discarded;
she tossed the moldy bread into the garbageJunknoun
(slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
Junknoun
(slang) The clothed genitalia.
Junknoun
(nautical) Salt beef.
Junknoun
Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
Junknoun
(dated) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
Junknoun
(attributive) Material or resources of a kind lacking commercial value.
junk fish; junk treesJunknoun
(nautical) A Chinese sailing vessel.
Junkverb
(transitive) To throw away.
Junkverb
(transitive) To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junk shop)
(On Facebook, a record collector wrote:) "The newest addition to my Annette Hanshaw collection, I junked this beautiful flawless E-copy within walking distance from my house."Junknoun
the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
Junknoun
any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails
Junkverb
dispose of (something useless or old);
trash these old chairsjunk an old carscrap your old computer
