garbage
gb/ɡˈɑɹbɪd͡ʒ/ us/ɡˈɑɹbɪd͡ʒ/
B1
Engleză
~ 8400
szemét, hulladék, ócskaság, egy rakás szemét, vacak, hülyeség, marhaság, szemétadat, szemét érték
B1
1
Tipar de utilizare:
to throw away [garbage]
Please take out the garbage before you go to bed.
Kérlek, vidd ki a szemetet, mielőtt lefekszel.
The smell of rotten garbage filled the alley.
A rothadó szemét szaga betöltötte a sikátort.
The city only collects household garbage on Mondays and Thursdays.
He forgot to put the garbage by the curb for the truck.
We separate our food waste from the rest of the garbage.
Exemple pentru cursanți
I put the garbage in a big plastic bag.
Egy nagy műanyag zacskóba tettem a szemetet.
The garbage truck comes to our street every morning.
A kukásautó minden reggel végigmegy az utcánkon.
She takes the garbage outside after dinner.
There is too much garbage in this room.
Please do not drop garbage on the ground.
Greșeală frecventă:
Learners sometimes treat 'garbage' as a countable noun and say *a garbage* or *many garbages*. In this sense, 'garbage' is almost always uncountable: say 'some garbage', 'a bag of garbage', or 'pieces of garbage'. Learners also sometimes confuse 'garbage' (AmE) and 'rubbish' (BrE); they mean the same thing, but the word choice depends on the variety of English.
Sens
waste thrown away from buildings
Colocații
take out the garbage
|throw away garbage
|household garbage
|garbage bag
|garbage truck
|garbage can
Sinonime
trash (Very common in American English; almost the same meaning in everyday use.)
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rubbish (More common in British English; slightly more formal than 'garbage' in some contexts.)
Antonime
recycling (Refers to waste materials that are collected to be processed and used again, not simply thrown away.)
Teme
daily life
|environment
|household
|daily_life
|housing
|core_vocabulary
Definiție
Things you do not want anymore, like food scraps or old packaging, that you put in a bag or bin to be taken away.
Waste material, especially from homes or businesses, that is thrown away because it is no longer wanted or useful.
B2
INFORMAL
2
Tipar de utilizare:
[something] is (total) garbage
This phone is complete garbage; the battery dies in two hours.
Ez a telefon egy rakás szemét; az akkumulátora két óra alatt lemerül.
Most people agreed that the sequel was garbage compared to the original movie.
A legtöbben egyetértettek abban, hogy a folytatás ócskaság volt az eredeti filmhez képest.
The customer reviews say the build quality is garbage.
I tried that restaurant once and the service was absolute garbage.
Anyone who treats their friends like that is garbage in my book.
Exemple pentru cursanți
This app is garbage. It always crashes.
Ez az app egy rakás szemét. Állandóan összeomlik.
The sound on these cheap headphones is garbage.
Ezeknek az olcsó fejhallgatóknak pocsék a hangja.
He says my idea is garbage, but I think it is good.
The Wi‑Fi in this hotel is garbage.
Many players think the new update is garbage.
Greșeală frecventă:
Learners may overuse this sense in polite situations; in many contexts, 'garbage' here sounds rude or very negative. In formal writing, it is better to say 'poor quality', 'bad', or 'not good'. Learners also sometimes try to make it countable (*many garbages*); instead say 'a piece of garbage', 'this is garbage', or 'these products are garbage'.
Sens
something extremely bad or worthless
Colocații
is garbage
|total garbage
|absolute garbage
|hot garbage
|piece of garbage
Sinonime
junk (Similar informal feel; often used for cheap or badly made things.)
|
trash (Very close in meaning; can be slightly less intense depending on tone.)
|
crap (More vulgar; stronger and more offensive in many situations.)
Antonime
excellent (Emphasizes very high quality, the opposite of 'extremely bad'.)
|
valuable (Focuses on having worth or usefulness, the opposite of being worthless.)
Teme
opinions
|quality
|entertainment
|core_vocabulary
|emotions
Definiție
A very bad thing or idea that someone thinks has no value or quality at all.
Something, such as a product, idea, performance, or sometimes a person, that is considered extremely bad, useless, or of no value.
B2
INFORMAL
3
Tipar de utilizare:
[someone] talks garbage
I stopped reading that article because it was full of conspiracy garbage.
Abbahagytam annak a cikknek az olvasását, mert tele volt összeesküvéses hülyeségekkel.
Don't listen to his garbage; he just wants attention.
Ne hallgass a hülyeségeire; csak figyelmet akar.
Social media is full of health garbage with no science behind it.
She called the comments 'sexist garbage' and refused to respond further.
I'm tired of hearing political garbage every time I turn on the TV.
Exemple pentru cursanți
He talks garbage when he is angry.
Hülyeségeket beszél, amikor mérges.
I don't believe that garbage on the internet.
Nem hiszem el azt a hülyeséget, amit az interneten olvastam.
She says my work is garbage, but she is wrong.
There is a lot of garbage in the comments section.
I am tired of this racist garbage on the news.
Greșeală frecventă:
Learners sometimes confuse this with the physical-waste meaning and create unclear sentences like *There is a lot of garbage in the news* when they are first learning. Context usually shows that this sense is about ideas or talk. Also, in polite or formal situations, 'nonsense' or 'untrue information' is usually better than 'garbage'.
Sens
speech or ideas seen as nonsense
Colocații
talk garbage
|listen to garbage
|believe that garbage
|political garbage
|racist garbage
Sinonime
nonsense (Neutral in register; focuses on the idea of something not making sense.)
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rubbish (Common in British English for ideas or talk that are considered wrong or silly.)
Antonime
truth (Stresses that what is said is correct and real, the opposite of false or empty talk.)
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sense (As in 'makes sense'; emphasizes ideas that are reasonable and logical.)
Teme
opinions
|communication
|emotions
|core_vocabulary
Definiție
Words or ideas that someone thinks are very bad, very wrong, or not worth listening to.
Speech, writing, or ideas that someone considers completely false, stupid, or offensive, and not worth listening to.
C1
TECHNICAL
4
szemétadat
C1
szemét érték
C1
Tipar de utilizare:
[something] contains garbage data
If you read from uninitialized memory, you'll probably get garbage.
Ha inicializálatlan memóriából olvasol, valószínűleg szemétadatot kapsz.
The debugger showed that the variable contained garbage after the function returned.
A hibakereső azt mutatta, hogy a változó szemét értéket tartalmazott, miután a függvény visszatért.
Garbage in, garbage out: if your training data is garbage, your model will be too.
The garbage collector frees memory that is filled with old, unused objects.
The log file was full of garbage after the crash and was impossible to parse.
Exemple pentru cursanți
The program used garbage from memory and crashed.
A program a memóriából származó szemétadatot használt, és összeomlott.
This number is garbage because the sensor failed.
Ez a szám szemétadat, mert az érzékelő meghibásodott.
If the input is garbage, the result will be wrong.
The tool cleans garbage data from the file.
The variable has garbage in it after the error.
Sens
meaningless or unused computer data
Colocații
garbage data
|garbage value
|garbage collection
|garbage in, garbage out
Sinonime
invalid data (More formal technical term; stresses that the data does not meet the expected format or rules.)
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junk data (Informal technical phrase; similar image to 'garbage', but slightly less standard.)
Antonime
valid data (Emphasizes data that is correct and in the expected form.)
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clean data (Focuses on data that has been checked and corrected to remove errors or noise.)
Teme
technology
|computing
|science
Definiție
In computers, data in memory that a program does not need anymore, or that has no clear meaning, but is still there.
In computing, data in memory or storage that is meaningless, invalid, or no longer used by a program but still occupies space.
Gramatică
Forma de dicționar
garbage
IPA
GB/ɡˈɑɹbɪd͡ʒ/
US/ɡˈɑɹbɪd͡ʒ/
Silabe și accent
garbage (1 silabă)
Stress on 1st syllable (garbage)
Forme ale cuvântului
Noun
- Base: garbage
- Plural: garbage
Familie de cuvinte
Expresii
garbage bag
1/ɡˈɑɹbɪd͡ʒ bˈæɡ/
fixed phrase
plastic bag for garbage
A large plastic bag that you put garbage in.
Exemple
- He tied up the full garbage bag and carried it outside.
- We need to buy more garbage bags at the store.
garbage can
1/ɡˈɑɹbɪd͡ʒ kən/
fixed phrase
container for garbage
A bin or container where you put garbage.
Exemple
- Please put your empty cup in the garbage can.
- The garbage can by the bus stop is overflowing.
garbage collector
1/ɡˈɑɹbɪd͡ʒ kəlˈɛktɚ/
fixed phrase
technical
program that frees unused memory
In some programming languages, a part of the system that finds and removes data in memory that programs are not using anymore.
Exemple
- The garbage collector runs in the background and can pause the application.
- Developers tuned the garbage collector to reduce latency.
garbage collector
1/ɡˈɑɹbɪd͡ʒ kəlˈɛktɚ/
fixed phrase
person who collects household trash
a person who takes away trash
Exemple
- The garbage collectors start early in the morning.
- We thanked the garbage collector for picking up the extra bags.
- A strike by garbage collectors caused trash to pile up downtown.
Exemple pentru cursanți
- The garbage collector takes our trash every Tuesday.
garbage collector
2/ɡˈɑɹbɪd͡ʒ kəlˈɛktɚ/
fixed phrase
technical
program that frees unused memory
software that cleans up unused memory
Exemple
- The garbage collector pauses the application to reclaim memory.
- A memory leak can happen even with a garbage collector if objects are still referenced.
- They tuned the garbage collector to reduce latency.
garbage in, garbage out
1/ɡˈɑɹbɪd͡ʒ ˈɪn | ɡˈɑɹbɪd͡ʒ ˈaʊt/
idiom
technical
bad input produces bad output
If you use bad or wrong information in a system, you will get bad or wrong results from it.
Exemple
- When it comes to statistics, remember: garbage in, garbage out.
- Even the best AI model will fail if you feed it garbage in, garbage out.
garbage man
1/ɡˈɑɹbɪd͡ʒ mˈæn/
fixed phrase
informal
worker who collects garbage
A person whose job is to pick up garbage from homes and streets and take it away.
Exemple
- The garbage man comes very early in the morning.
- As a child, he wanted to be a garbage man because he liked the big trucks.
garbage time
1/ɡˈɑɹbɪd͡ʒ tˈaɪm/
idiom
informal
unimportant late period of a game
The last part of a sports game when one team is clearly winning and what happens next does not change the result much.
Exemple
- The star players sat out the garbage time in the fourth quarter.
- He scored most of his points during garbage time when the game was already over.
garbage truck
1/ɡˈɑɹbɪd͡ʒ tɹˈʌk/
fixed phrase
truck that collects garbage
A large truck that comes to pick up garbage from houses and streets.
Exemple
- The garbage truck arrives every Tuesday morning.
- Children watched the garbage truck lift the bins into the air.
hot garbage
1/hˈɑt ɡˈɑɹbɪd͡ʒ/
idiom
slang
extremely bad or awful
A slang way to say that something is extremely bad.
Exemple
- The new update is hot garbage; nothing works now.
- Fans called the movie 'hot garbage' on social media.
piece of garbage
1/pˈis əv ɡˈɑɹbɪd͡ʒ/
idiom
informal
insult for worthless person or thing
A very strong and rude way to call a person or thing completely bad and without value.
Exemple
- Anyone who hurts animals like that is a piece of garbage.
- This old laptop is a piece of garbage; it barely turns on.
take out the garbage
1/tˈeɪk ˈaʊt ðə ɡˈɑɹbɪd͡ʒ/
fixed phrase
remove garbage from a building
To carry the garbage bag from inside your home to the outside bin or place where it is collected.
Exemple
- It's your turn to take out the garbage tonight.
- She forgot to take out the garbage, so the kitchen smells bad now.
talk garbage
1/tˈɔk ɡˈɑɹbɪd͡ʒ/
idiom
informal
speak nonsense or offensive ideas
To say things that someone thinks are very stupid, wrong, or offensive.
Exemple
- He talks garbage when he's drunk, so I just ignore him.
- Stop talking garbage about people you don't even know.
garbage collection
1/ɡˈɑɹbɪd͡ʒ kəlˈɛkʃən/
fixed phrase
Removal of household waste
The job of taking away waste from houses and other places.
Exemple
- Garbage collection is on Thursday in our neighborhood.
- The city improved its garbage collection service.
garbage collection
2/ɡˈɑɹbɪd͡ʒ kəlˈɛkʃən/
fixed phrase
technical
automatic reclaiming of unused memory
In computing, the automatic process of finding and freeing memory that a program does not need anymore.
Exemple
- Garbage collection makes programming easier but can affect performance.
- Languages like Java and C# use automatic garbage collection.
garbage disposal
1/ɡˈɑɹbɪd͡ʒ dɪspˈoʊzəl/
fixed phrase
sink device for food waste
A machine in a kitchen sink that cuts food waste into very small pieces so it can go down the drain.
Exemple
- Our new apartment has a garbage disposal, which makes cleaning up much easier.
- Don't put chicken bones in the garbage disposal.
- Never put glass in the garbage disposal, or you could damage it.
- The garbage disposal is jammed and making a strange noise.
- He flipped the switch, and the garbage disposal started with a loud noise.
garbage dump
1/ɡˈɑɹbɪd͡ʒ dˈʌmp/
fixed phrase
place where garbage is dumped
A big open place where trucks bring and leave large amounts of garbage.
Exemple
- The smell from the garbage dump carries across the whole valley.
- The town's old garbage dump has been turned into a park.
- Trucks lined up to unload at the garbage dump.
- Birds were circling above the garbage dump looking for food.
- They closed the old garbage dump and opened a new landfill.