different between refuse vs throwout
refuse
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed into late Middle English from Middle French refusé, past participle of refuser (“to refuse”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?f?yo?os, IPA(key): /???fju?s/
Adjective
refuse (comparative more refuse, superlative most refuse)
- Discarded, rejected.
Noun
refuse (uncountable)
- Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
Synonyms
- discards
- garbage (US)
- rubbish (UK)
- trash (US)
- See also Thesaurus:trash
Translations
Etymology 2
From Old French refuser, from Vulgar Latin *refusare, a blend of Classical Latin refut? and recus?.
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?fyo?oz?, IPA(key): /???fju?z/
- Rhymes: -u?z
Verb
refuse (third-person singular simple present refuses, present participle refusing, simple past and past participle refused)
- (transitive) To decline (a request or demand).
- (intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
- (military) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy.
- (obsolete, transitive) To disown.
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Synonyms
- (decline): decline, reject, nill, say no to, turn down, veto, withsake, withsay
- (decline a request or demand): say no, forbear
Translations
Noun
refuse
- (obsolete) refusal
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairfax to this entry?)
Etymology 3
re- +? fuse
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?fyo?oz?, IPA(key): /?i??fju?z/
- Rhymes: -u?z
Verb
refuse (third-person singular simple present refuses, present participle refusing, simple past and past participle refused)
- To melt again.
Related terms
- refusion
French
Verb
refuse
- inflection of refuser:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
- férues
Latin
Participle
ref?se
- vocative masculine singular of ref?sus
References
- refuse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
refuse From the web:
- what refuse mean
- what refuse disposal
- what refuse bin mean
- what refuse tips are open
- what refuse sites are open
- what refuse collector
- what's refuse in tagalog
- what's refuse chute
throwout
English
Etymology
From throw out, in the sense of having been thrown out of society.
Noun
throwout (plural throwouts)
- (printing) A folded sheet that opens out to one side; half a gatefold.
- (rare) One who has been rejected by society; an outcast.
- 1963, Fred Majdalany, State of Emergency: The Full Story of Mau Mau (page 228)
- The first category were throwouts of the Police Reserve and the prisons organization who avenged themselves on these bodies that had rejected them by inventing and spreading accusations of malpractices.
- 1963, Fred Majdalany, State of Emergency: The Full Story of Mau Mau (page 228)
Anagrams
- outthrow, outworth
throwout From the web:
- what's a throwout bearing
- what does throwout bearing do
- what are throwout sales
- what does throwout bearing
- what is a throwout bearing in a car
- what grease for throwout bearing
- what are factory throwout cigars
- what causes a throwout bearing to fail
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- refuse vs throwout
- desertion vs taxonomy
- awol vs desertion
- defection vs desertion
- desertion vs abandonment
- ethnomedicinal vs ethnomedicinally
- stepfamily vs taxonomy
- mercurial vs nonmercurial
- mercury vs nonmercurial
- mercurialism vs hydrargyrism
- mercury vs intramercurial
- sun vs intramercurial
- unpredictable vs mercurial
- mercurialise vs taxonomy
- mercurialize vs taxonomy
- mercurialism vs taxonomy
- mercuriality vs taxonomy
- bathometers vs bathymeters
- breadcrumbing vs taxonomy
- breadcrumbed vs taxonomy