The difference between Litter and Waste

When used as nouns, 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, whereas waste means excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products.

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

Waste is also adjective with the meaning: uncultivated, uninhabited.

check bellow for the other definitions of Litter and Waste

  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.

  1. Waste as a noun:

    Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.

  2. Waste as a noun:

    Excrement or urine.

    Examples:

    "The cage was littered with animal waste"

  3. Waste as a noun:

    A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.

  4. Waste as a noun:

    A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.

  5. Waste as a noun:

    A large tract of uncultivated land.

  6. Waste as a noun (historical):

    The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.

  7. Waste as a noun:

    A vast expanse of water.

  8. Waste as a noun:

    A disused mine or part of one.

  9. Waste as a noun:

    The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.

    Examples:

    "That was a waste of time"

    "Her life seemed a waste"

  10. Waste as a noun:

    Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.

  11. Waste as a noun:

    Gradual loss or decay.

  12. Waste as a noun:

    A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away.

  13. Waste as a noun (rare):

    Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste"

  14. Waste as a noun (legal):

    A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.

  15. Waste as a noun (geology):

    Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.

  1. Waste as an adjective (now, rare):

    Uncultivated, uninhabited.

  2. Waste as an adjective:

    Barren; desert.

  3. Waste as an adjective:

    Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.

  4. Waste as an adjective:

    Superfluous; needless.

  5. Waste as an adjective:

    Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

  6. Waste as an adjective:

    Unfortunate; disappointing.

  1. Waste as a verb (transitive):

    to devastate, destroy

  2. Waste as a verb (transitive):

    To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.

    Examples:

    "We wasted millions of dollars and several years on that project."

  3. Waste as a verb (transitive, slang):

    To kill; to murder.

  4. Waste as a verb (transitive):

    To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.

  5. Waste as a verb (intransitive):

    Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.

  6. Waste as a verb (intransitive):

    To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.

  7. Waste as a verb (legal):

    To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.

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