Difference between litter and wastepaper
Definitions
verb
- strew
- give birth to a litter of animals
- make a place messy by strewing garbage around
noun
- 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
- the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal
Examples
In many places, glittering among the clothes, were gold and silver coins, a few silver ornaments such as buckles, and watches -- things not missed by the pirates in the transport of their flight.
The nearby street was littered with shattered vehicles, pieces of glass, bricks, mangled steel and scraps of clothing.
The city of Palermo was also distinguishable; and Julia, as she gazed on its glittering spires; would endeavour in imagination to depicture its beauties, while she secretly sighed for a view of that world, from which she had hitherto been secluded by the mean jealousy of the marchioness, upon whose mind the dread of rival beauty operated strongly to the prejudice of Emilia and Julia.
