different between rubbish vs recycle

English

Etymology

From Middle English r?b?us (“rubbish, building rubble”), further origin uncertain; possibly from Anglo-Norman rubous, rubouse, rubbouse (“refuse, waste material; building rubble”), and compare Late Latin rebbussa, robousa, robusium, robusum, rubisum, rubusa, rubusium (although the Anglo-Norman and Latin words may be derived from the English word instead of the other way around). The English word may be related to rubble, though the connection is unclear.

The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???b??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???b??/, /???-/
• Hyphenation: rub?bish

Noun

rubbish (usually uncountable, plural rubbishes)

1. (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain) Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:trash
2. (by extension, chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain) An item, or items, of low quality.
3. (by extension, chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain) Nonsense.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:nonsense
4. (archaic) Debris or ruins of buildings.

Alternative forms

• rubbage (now dialectal)

Derived terms

Related terms

• rubble (possibly)

Translations

Adjective

rubbish (comparative more rubbish, superlative most rubbish)

1. (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain, colloquial) Exceedingly bad; awful.

   Synonyms: abysmal, crappy, horrendous, shitty, terrible; see also Thesaurus:bad, Thesaurus:low-quality

Translations

Interjection

rubbish (chiefly Australia, Britain, New Zealand, colloquial)

1. Used to express that something is exceedingly bad, awful, or terrible.

2. Used to express that what was recently said is nonsense or untrue; balderdash!, nonsense!

   Synonyms: bollocks, bullshit

Translations

Verb

rubbish (third-person singular simple present rubbishes, present participle rubbishing, simple past and past participle rubbished)

1. (transitive, chiefly Australia, Britain, New Zealand, colloquial) To criticize, to denigrate, to denounce, to disparage. [from c. 1950s (Australia, New Zealand)]

Derived terms

• rubbisher

Translations

References

Further reading

• waste on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “rubbish”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

English

Etymology

From re- +? cycle.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???sa?k?l/, /???sa?k?l/, /?i?sa?k?l/
• Rhymes: -a?k?l

Verb

recycle (third-person singular simple present recycles, present participle recycling, simple past and past participle recycled)

1. (transitive) To break down and reuse component materials.

2. (transitive) To reuse as a whole.
   • 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift

     Jokes are recycled so frequently, it’s as if comedy writing was eating a hole in the ozone layer: If the audience had a nickel for every time a character on one side of the frame says something could never happen as it simultaneously happens on the other side of the frame, they’d have enough to pay the surcharge for the movie’s badly implemented 3-D.
3. (transitive) To collect or place in a bin for recycling.
   • 1990, Laurence Sombke, The Solution to Pollution: 101 Things You Can Do to Clean Up Your Environment, Sandy, Oregon: MasterMedia, p 22:

     Most cans, bottles, and jars need to be rinsed, so recycle while you are doing dishes.

   • 2003, The Complete Guide to Easy Woodworking Projects: 50 Projects You Can Build With Hand Power Tools, Minneapolis: Creative Publishing International, p 270:

     Recycling is no longer a chore when this convenient recycling center is a fixture in your kitchen.

   • 2006, Elaine Martin Petrowski, Design Ideas for Home Storage, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Creative Homeowner, p 133:

     You'll find many configurations, including models that hide behind a single cabinet door and conceal from one to three bins, so you can recycle at the same spot where you dispose of trash.

4. (intransitive, ergative) To be recycled.

5. (US) To discard into a recycling bin.
6. (US, military, transitive) To put (a person) through a course of training again.
   • 2006, Barbara Schading, Richard Schading, A Civilian's Guide to the U.S. Military (page 102)

     Recruits cannot fail this portion of their training and become a Marine. Anyone who fails may be “recycled” through training up to three more times to try again, but will be sent home if success in this program is not achieved.

Hyponyms

• downcycle
• upcycle

Derived terms

• recyclable
• recyclability
• recycle bin
• recycling

Translations

Noun

recycle (plural recycles)

1. An act of recycling.
   • 2011, C. P. Leslie Grady, Jr., Glen T. Daigger, Nancy G. Love, Biological Wastewater Treatment, Third Edition (page 189)

     First, there will be little reaction in the settler so that the concentrations of soluble constituents in the recycle stream are the same as those in the bioreactor. Because all soluble concentrations are the same, the recycle of soluble constituents around the system has no impact on system performance.

   • 2020, Gary Gray, MUD on MY BADGE

     If the agency does not approve recycle of the cadet who failed to qualify, the cadet is sent home and is not hired by the department who sponsored him or her in the academy.

Further reading

• recycling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.sikl/

Verb

recycle

1. first-person singular present indicative of recycler
2. third-person singular present indicative of recycler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of recycler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of recycler
5. second-person singular imperative of recycler

German

Pronunciation

Verb

recycle

1. inflection of recyceln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative