litter

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

   material used to provide a bed for animals

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

   (uncountable)Animal bedding together with its dung.

3. (countable)A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs.

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

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

5. (broadly, countable)Any of the other similar conveyances, such as sedan chairs, hammock litters, and the like.

   Sänfte, Trage, Bahre

   паланки́нpalankín, носи́лкиnosílki

   паланкі́нpalankín, носи́лкиnosýlky, носи́лкаnosýlka

6. (collective, countable)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.

   Wurf

   припло́дpriplód, помётpomjót, вы́водокvývodok

   ви́водокvývodok

7. (uncountable)Waste or debris, originally any mess but now particularly trash left or thrown on the ground.

   Near-synonyms: garbage; see also Thesaurus:trash

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

8. (countable, uncommon)A bed, a substrate formed from loose materials.

9. (uncountable)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.

10. (uncountable)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.

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

    (countable, obsolete)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)

12. (obsolete, uncountable)Synonym of straw, grass, etc. more generally, particularly in plaster, thatch, and mulch.

1. The beach was littered with debris.

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2. The streets were littered with debris.

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3. You can have the pick of the litter.

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4. This puppy was the runt of the litter.

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5. How do you train a cat to use a litter box?

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