Difference between Rubbish and Trash

What is the difference between Rubbish and Trash?

Rubbish as a noun is garbage, junk, refuse, waste. while Trash as a noun is useless things to be discarded

Rubbish

Part of speech: interjection

Definition: Expresses that something is exceedingly bad, terrible or awful. Expresses that what was recently said is untruth or nonsense.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Garbage, junk, refuse, waste. Nonsense.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Exceedingly bad; awful; terrible; crap.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To denounce, to criticise.

Example sentence: Salman Khan did not help me get movie offers. What rubbish! Will any producer take a risk of millions of rupees at the instance of any person? Everyone knows that the film industry is highly competitive, and one gets a job on one's talent only and not on any recommendation.

Trash

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Useless things to be discardedA container into which things are discardedSomething of poor qualityLower class people (as in white trash)Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To discard.To make into a mess.To beat soundly in a game.To disrespect someone or something

Example sentence: I used to throw stuff out of the window and trash hotel rooms - and superglue all the drawers shut and superglue the toilet seat down and superglue the phone to the nightstand - and all kinds of stuff. I had a chain saw for a while. I didn't really use it but once or twice.

We hope you now know whether to use Rubbish or Trash in your sentence.

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