The difference between Junk and Litter

When used as nouns, junk means discarded or waste material, whereas litter means a platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.

When used as verbs, junk means to throw away, whereas litter means to drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).

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  1. Junk as a noun:

    Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.

  2. Junk as a noun:

    A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.

  3. Junk as a noun (slang):

    Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.

  4. Junk as a noun (slang):

    The clothed genitalia.

  5. Junk as a noun (nautical):

    Salt beef.

  6. Junk as a noun:

    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.

  7. Junk as a noun (dated):

    A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.

    Examples:

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  1. Junk as a verb (transitive):

    To throw away.

  2. Junk as a verb (transitive):

    To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junk shop)

    Examples:

    "(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."

  1. Junk as a noun (nautical):

    A Chinese sailing vessel.

  1. Litter as a noun (countable):

    A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.

  2. Litter as a noun (collective, countable):

    The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.

  3. Litter as a noun (uncountable):

    Material used as bedding for animals.

  4. Litter as a noun (uncountable):

    Collectively, items discarded on the ground.

  5. Litter as a noun (uncountable):

    Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray

  6. Litter as a noun (uncountable):

    Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.

  7. Litter as a noun:

    A covering of straw for plants.

  1. Litter as a verb (intransitive):

    To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).

  2. Litter as a verb (transitive):

    To scatter carelessly about.

  3. Litter as a verb (transitive):

    To strew (a place) with scattered articles.

  4. Litter as a verb (transitive):

    To give birth to, used of animals.

  5. Litter as a verb (intransitive):

    To produce a litter of young.

  6. Litter as a verb (transitive):

    To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.

  7. Litter as a verb (intransitive):

    To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.

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