litter

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.

   “Quen he had made me hale and fere”

2. isim A bed, especially a pile of straw (sometimes also with blankets) used as a bed.

   “Near-synonyms: pallet, straw bed, hay bed (all broadly synonymous)”

3. isim Animal bedding together with its dung.

   “Silkworms... must be well cleansed from the litter.”

4. isim A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs.

   “... In a lytter made tho full royall...”

5. isim Synonym of stretcher, such a vehicle used for transporting the sick and injured, inclusive of designs carried in the hand.

   “He ordeyned lyttyers for the wounded knyghtes.”

6. isim Any of the other similar conveyances, such as sedan chairs, hammock litters, and the like.

   “When they went out, they sat in litters, which were curtained.”

7. isim Synonym of straw, grass, etc. more generally, particularly in plaster, thatch, and mulch.
8. isim An act of giving birth to a number of live young at the same time.

   “Let new planted Elms be kept moist by frequent refreſhings upon ſome half-rotten Fern, or Litter laid about the foot of the ſtem...”

9. isim The whole group of live young born at the same time, typically in reference to mammals or (figurative, derogatory) unpleasant people or objects.

   “The runt of the litter is the smallest or weakest of a group of puppies born together.”

10. isim Waste or debris, originally any mess but now particularly trash left or thrown on the ground.

    “What are you doing?! There's a litter bin not three feet away.”

11. isim A bed, a substrate formed from loose materials.

    “Having first made a litter of shingles, planks or billets, with a layer of charcoal powder several inches in thickness...”

12. isim The layer of fallen leaves and other loose organic material on the ground in a forest.

    “Forest animals use leaf litter in a variety of ways, including as food, shelter, nesting material, bedding, and camouflage.”

13. isim Fuller's earth, clay pellets, wood chips, or other similar loose absorbent materials used for the waste of pet animals.

    “Change the cat litter fer chrissakes. This place reeks.”

14. fiil To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).

    “By tossing the bottle out the window, he was littering.”

15. fiil To scatter carelessly about.
16. fiil To strew (a place) with scattered articles.

    “Their Clamour, 'lighting from their Chairs, / Grew lowder, all the way up Stairs; / At Entrance louder, where they found, / The Room with Volumes litter'd round; […]”

17. fiil To give birth to, in the manner of animals.

    “We might conceive that dogs were created blind, because we observe they were littered so with us.”

18. fiil To produce a litter of young.

    “A desert […] where the she-wolf still littered.”

19. fiil To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.

    “Tell them how they litter their jades.”

20. fiil To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.

    “The inn where he and his horse litter'd.”

21. sıfat comparative form of lit: more lit