different between litter vs exhaust

English

Etymology

From French litière, from lit (“bed”), from Latin lectus; confer Ancient Greek ??????? (léktron). Had the sense ‘bed’ in very early English, but then came to mean ‘portable couch’, ‘bedding’, ‘strewn rushes (for animals)’, etc.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l?t?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?t?/, [?l???]
• Rhymes: -?t?(r)
• Homophone: lidder (US)

Noun

litter (countable and uncountable, plural litters)

1. (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. (collective, countable) The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.
3. (uncountable) Material used as bedding for animals.

4. (uncountable) Collectively, items discarded on the ground.
   • 1730, Jonathan Swift, s:The Lady's Dressing Room

     Strephon [...] / Stole in, and took a strict survey / Of all the litter as it lay.
5. (uncountable) Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray

6. (uncountable) Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.
7. A covering of straw for plants.

Synonyms

• (platform designed to carry a person or a load): palanquin, sedan chair, stretcher, cacolet
• (items discarded on the ground): waste, rubbish, garbage (US), trash (US), junk

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

litter (third-person singular simple present litters, present participle littering, simple past and past participle littered)

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

2. (transitive) To scatter carelessly about.
3. (transitive) To strew (a place) with scattered articles.
4. (transitive) To give birth to, used of animals.
5. (intransitive) To produce a litter of young.
6. (transitive) To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
   • 1693, John Hacket, Scrinia reserata: a Memorial offered to the great Deservings of John Williams

     Tell them how they litter their jades.

   • For his ease, well litter'd was the floor.

7. (intransitive) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
   • 1634, William Habington, Castara

     The inn where he and his horse litter'd.

Derived terms

• litterer

Translations

Anagrams

• retilt, tilter, titler

Norman

Etymology

From Old French luitier, loitier, luiter (compare French lutter), from Vulgar Latin luct?re, from Latin luctor, luct?r? (“struggle, wrestle, fight”).

Verb

litter

1. (Jersey) to wrestle

Derived terms

• litteux (“wrestler”)

English

Etymology

From Latin exhaustus, past participle of exhaur?re (“to draw out, drink up, empty, exhaust”), from ex (“out”) + haur?re (“to draw (especially water), drain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???z??st/
• Rhymes: -??st

Verb

exhaust (third-person singular simple present exhausts, present participle exhausting, simple past and past participle exhausted)

1. (transitive) To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely

2. (transitive) To empty by drawing or letting out the contents

3. (transitive, figuratively) To drain; to use up or expend wholly, or until the supply comes to an end

4. (transitive) to tire out; to wear out; to cause to be without any energy
5. (transitive) To bring out or develop completely
6. (transitive) to discuss thoroughly or completely

7. (transitive, chemistry) To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives

Synonyms

• spend, consume
• tire out, weary
• See also Thesaurus:fatigue

Related terms

• exhausted
• exhausting
• exhaustion
• exhaustive
• exhaustible

Translations

Noun

exhaust (plural exhausts)

1. A system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged; see also exhaust system.
2. The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.
3. The dirty air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.
4. An exhaust pipe, especially on a motor vehicle.
5. exhaust gas.

Derived terms

Translations

Descendants

• ? Gulf Arabic: ?????? (igz?z)
• ? Hebrew: ????????? (egzóz)
• ? Persian: ??????

Adjective

exhaust (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Exhausted; used up.

Further reading

• exhaust in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• exhaust in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• exhaust at OneLook Dictionary Search

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin exhaustus.

Adjective

exhaust (feminine exhausta, masculine plural exhausts or exhaustos, feminine plural exhaustes)

1. out of (no longer in possession of)
2. exhausted

Related terms

• exhaurir
• exhaustió
• exhaustiu

Further reading

• “exhaust” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “exhaust” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “exhaust” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “exhaust” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.