Difference between Trash and Scum

What is the difference between Trash and Scum?

Trash as a noun is useless things to be discarded while Scum as a noun is a layer of impurities that accumulates at the surface of a liquid (especially molten metal or water).

Trash

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Useless things to be discarded A container into which things are discarded Something of poor quality Lower 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: My mother used to laugh that if they asked me to clean up my room, I would spend so much time reading every tiny bit of paper, a receipt or whatever, instead of throwing it in the trash.

Scum

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A layer of impurities that accumulates at the surface of a liquid (especially molten metal or water).A greenish water vegetation (such as algae), usually found floating on the surface of pondsThe topmost liquid layer of a cesspool or septic tank.A person or persons considered to be reprehensible.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To remove the layer of scum from (a liquid etc.).To scour (the land, sea etc.).

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

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