different between trash vs residue

English

Etymology

From Middle English trasch, trassh, probably a dialectal form of *trass (compare Orkney truss, English dialectal trous), from Old Norse tros (“rubbish, fallen leaves and twigs”). Compare Norwegian trask (“lumber, trash, baggage”), Swedish trasa (“rag, cloth, worthless fellow”), Swedish trås (“dry fallen twigs, wood-waste”). Compare also Old English þreahs, þreax (“rottenness, rubbish”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?sh, IPA^(key): /t?æ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

trash (countable and uncountable, plural trashes)

1. (chiefly Canada, US) Useless things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.

   • A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin.

2. (chiefly Canada, US) A container into which things are discarded.
3. (chiefly Canada, US) Something worthless or of poor quality.

4. (chiefly Canada, US) (slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
5. (chiefly Canada, US) (fandom slang, humorous, uncountable) A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.

6. (computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.

Synonyms

• garbage (1-3), junk (1,3), refuse (1), rubbish, waste
• (container): trash can
• (storage for deleted files): recycle bin
• See also Thesaurus:trash

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

trash (third-person singular simple present trashes, present participle trashing, simple past and past participle trashed)

1. (US) To discard.
   • 1989, InfoWorld (18 December 1989, page 66)

     Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.

2. (US) To make into a mess.

3. (US) To beat soundly in a game.
4. (US) To disrespect someone or something
   • 20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along?

     It is a British tradition for the media to celebrate an upcoming royal wedding by trashing the incoming in-laws, from Diana’s stepmother, Raine Spencer, to Kate Middleton’s Uncle Gary and his memorably named Ibizan villa, Maison de Bang Bang.

5. To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
   • 1793, Bryan Edwards, History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies

     the ancient practice of trashing ratoons i.e. stripping them of their outward leaves

6. To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.
7. To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.

   • I fled too; But not so fast , —your jewel had been lost then, Young Hengo there; he trashed ' me

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:junk

Derived terms

• trash out

Translations

See also

recycle bin

Anagrams

• Arths, HARTs, Stahr, harts, raths, shart, tahrs, thars

Albanian

Etymology

See Albanian trashë (“thick, fat, massive”) (from Proto-Albanian *trauša, according to Vladimir Orel).

Verb

• (active) trash (first-person singular past tense trasha, participle trashur)

1. (transitive) I thicken, I fatten, I plump up (something)

   Synonym: majm

2. (figuratively) I magnify, inflate (an object)

   Synonyms: zmadhoj, lartësoj, fryj

   I exaggerate (a sotry)

   Synonyms: ekzagjeroj, teproj

   I strengthen, deepen (a friendship, relationship, conversation)

   Synonyms: forcoj, thelloj

• (passive) tráshem (first-person singular past tense u trasha, participle trashur)

1. (passive, reflexive) I gain weight, I become thick, fat
2. (passive, 3rd person) is/are getting lower, deeper (voice, sound, volume)
3. (passive, 3rd pers.) is/are getting worse (problem(s), disagreement(s), quarrel(s))
4. (passive, 3rd pers.) becomes more frequent, denser, thicker; thickens (a larger scale of particles)

   Synonym: dendësoj

5. (passive, figuratively, 3rd pers.) is/are getting tired; lose(s) (strength, ability or sharpness)
6. (passive, figuratively, 3rd pers.) is/are stubborn, headstrong, pigheaded, foolish, stupid, bigheaded, arrogant (when associated with a person's intelligence or behaviour)

Conjugation

(conjugation type 14²)

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• [1] active verb trash (aorist trasha; participle trashur) • Fjalor Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)
• [2] passive verb trashem (tráshem) (aorist u trasha; participle trashur) • Fjalor Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)
• Oda Buchholz, Wilfried Fiedler, Gerda Uhlisch (2000) Langenscheidt Handwörterbuch Albanisch, Langenscheidt Verlag, ?ISBN, page 576 (verb trash (14²))

References

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English trash.

Adjective

trash (invariable)

1. of an unrefined or vulgar taste; trash

Noun

trash m (invariable)

1. art movement that emphasizes what is ugly, grotesque, or vulgar; trash

Middle English

Noun

trash

1. Alternative form of trasch

English

Etymology

From Middle English residue, from Old French residu, from Latin residuum, neuter of residuus (“remaining”), from reside? (“I remain behind”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???z?du?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???z?dju?/

Noun

residue (countable and uncountable, plural residues)

1. Whatever remains after something else has been removed.
2. (chemistry) The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.
3. (biochemistry) A molecule that is released from a polymer after bonds between neighbouring monomers are broken, such as an amino acid in a polypeptide chain.
4. (law) Whatever property or effects are left in an estate after payment of all debts, other charges and deduction of what is specifically bequeathed by the testator.
5. (mathematics) A form of complex number, proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function along a path enclosing one of its singularities.

Synonyms

• (whatever remains): lave, remnant; See also Thesaurus:remainder

Derived terms

Related terms

• residuum

Translations

Anagrams

• diuerse, diurese, ureides

Italian

Adjective

residue f pl

1. feminine plural of residuo

Anagrams

• suderei

Latin

Adjective

residue

1. vocative masculine singular of residuus