litter
US: /ˈɫɪtɝ/
UK: /lˈɪtɐ/
UK: /lˈɪtɐ/
English Vietnamese dictionary
litter /'litə/
- danh từ
- rác rưởi bừa bãi
- ổ rơm (cho súc vật)
- lượt rơm phủ (lên cây non)
- rơm trộn phân; phân chuồng
- lứa đẻ chó, mèo, lợn)
- kiệu, cáng (để khiêng người bệnh, người bị thương)
- ngoại động từ
- rải ổ (cho súc vật)
- vứt rác rưởi bừa bãi lên; bày bừa lên
- đẻ (chó, mèo, lợn...)
- nội động từ
- đẻ (chó, mèo, lợn...)
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun
1 [U] small pieces of rubbish/garbage such as paper, cans and bottles, that people have left lying in a public place: There will be fines for people who drop litter.
2 [sing.] ~ of sth a number of things that are lying in an untidy way: The floor was covered with a litter of newspapers, clothes and empty cups.
3 [U] a dry substance that is put in a shallow open box for pets, especially cats, to use as a toilet when they are indoors: cat litter + (BrE) a litter tray + (AmE) a litter box
4 [C] a number of baby animals that one mother gives birth to at the same time: a litter of puppies / kittens + the runt (= the smallest and weakest baby) of the litter
5 [U] the substance, especially STRAW, that is used for farm animals to sleep on
6 [C] a kind of chair or bed that was used in the past for carrying important people
+ verb
1 [VN] to be spread around a place, making it look untidy: Piles of books and newspapers littered the floor. + Broken glass littered the streets.
2 ~ (sth) (with sth) [usually passive] to leave things in a place, making it look untidy: [VN] The floor was littered with papers. + [V] (AmE) He was arrested for littering.
3 [VN] (be littered with sth) to contain or involve a lot of a particular type of thing usually sth bad: Your essay is littered with spelling mistakes.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 rubbish, debris, refuse, fragments, odds and ends, US and Canadian trash, Colloq junk:
The room was strewn with food wrappers, cigarette butts, and other litter
2 brood, issue, offspring, young:
Note the differences in the young of the same litter.
3 stretcher, palanquin or palankeen, sedan chair:
The potentate was borne in on a litter carried by four huge Nubians.
v.
4 clutter, strew, scatter:
The streets were littered with bricks and broken glass.
Collocation dictionary
VERB + LITTER
drop, leave
Please do not leave litter after your picnic.
| clean up, clear up, pick up
LITTER + VERB
be strewn
Litter was strewn all over the field.
LITTER + NOUN
basket, bin | lout
The local council has pledged to clamp down on litter louts on the beach.
Concise English dictionary
litters|littered|littering'lɪtə(r)
noun
+the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal
+rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)
+conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers
+material used to provide a bed for animals
verb
+strew
+make a place messy by strewing garbage around
+give birth to a litter of animals
