I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a litter bin (= a bin in a public place )
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Please put all your rubbish in the litter bin.
cat litter (= small grains for a cat to use as a toilet inside the house )
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You should change cat litter daily.
cat litter
litter bin
litter of pups (= several pups born to the same mother at the same time )
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a litter of pups
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bin
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The mess of pizza fragments, uneaten chips, beer-cans, papers, had been swept into the litter bin .
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Eventually I threw up into a litter bin attached to a crowded bus shelter on St George's Road.
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He remembered Woil staying by the bench and the litter bin where the Men could reach him.
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And when I pretended to be a horse I got so excited I bumped into this litter bin and fell over.
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The worse for drink, he lurches away, staggering to a litter bin where he is sick.
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Amid the clattering trams and the hurrying crowds at the Hackescher Markt, the golden litter bin stands out.
cat
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You can use a large plastic cat litter tray as a dirt-box.
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Fill this with a small amount of cat litter , having lined it first with newspaper.
leaf
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We measured things other than fire, such as leaf litter .
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In the fall, they are buried in the leaf litter .
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Some materials have the animals in them to begin with. Leaf litter , soil and rotting timber contain small animals.
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A wren scrabbled in leaf litter a few yards away: tiny, rufous-brown, pert tailed.
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It begins with a fluttering in the mould and rot of the leaf litter .
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A third marked contrast, of enormous ecological and economic significance, is in leaf litter .
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Tallis could see how invisible feet kicked up the leaf litter , broke and trampled bracken.
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The leaf litter of this remarkable plant is therefore bulky and relatively persistent.
tray
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The secret in such cases is to increase the rate of emptying and cleaning the litter tray .
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A final factor has to do with the position of the litter tray .
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Cats hate to defecate where they eat and some people place the litter tray too near the animal's food dish.
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So if a litter tray is in too public a place, this too may drive them elsewhere.
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When you first introduce the litter tray , place the puppy here if you suspect that it is likely to use it.
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The cats shared their room with an overflowing litter tray .
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You can use a large plastic cat litter tray as a dirt-box.
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This means leaving faeces in a prominent place, rather than covering them up in the litter tray .
■ VERB
drop
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Always clear up after a picnic and never drop litter 9 Help to keep all water clean.
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But what if they drop litter ?
produce
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A week ago he was successful ... 13 baby boas were produced in the same litter , 12 of them survived.
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The whole menagerie produced just a single litter .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a picnic area with large wooden tables and litter bins
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I am tired of picking up litter thrown by other people.
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Our cat, Elsie, just had a litter of six kittens.
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The vacant lot across the street is filled with litter .
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The vet asked how many litters the dog had had.
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These streets are full of litter .
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You can be fined £100 for dropping litter .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If we were to introduce a new toy to a litter of puppies, they would play with it.
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Never throw litter into ponds or streams. 10 Protect wildlife, plants and trees.
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People who lived and worked near the building complained of crime, litter and other problems associated with the feeding program.
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The gutter between the sidewalk and granite slabs is cleared of leaves and litter .
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There is litter on the seats of the train I take to Westminster.
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Therefore, it pays a hungry hamster or a weak deer to miscarry a male-biased litter and retain a female-biased one.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
floor
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Discarded clothing began to litter the floor .
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Crates and cardboard boxes still littered the floor .
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Drawers littered all over the floor , cushions ripped open.
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The windows are now boarded up, but the rocks which came through them still litter the floor .
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Car springs and axles littered the floor .
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They eat their prey at their roosts, littering the cave floor with the broken up remains of their meals.
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One day Bernard arrived to find crisp wrappers littering the floor and the assistants sitting around smoking.
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Clothes, newspapers and nameless rubbish littered the floor and over everything a radio blasted away at fall strength.
ground
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Heaps of garbage littered the grounds .
street
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Here and there old cars littered the streets like debris from a civil war.
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When it snows in Boston, residents litter the streets with old furniture, barrels and a rusty washing machine or two.
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In downtown Olympia, shattered shop windows and rubble littered the streets .
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But any illegal littering of city streets is the domain of the four litter cops.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dirty plates littered the kitchen.
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The sign says, "Please do not litter ."
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although telephone lines to the city remain severed, a Sarajevo radio reporter said corpses littered the pavement next to the town hall.
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Although the pet database is littered with a cat entry here and there, cat registration is not required in San Francisco.
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Shreds of plastic, old iron, glass, animal bones littered both sides of the path.
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Stirling himself took over his brother's flat again where the floor would be littered with maps and bits of equipment.
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The breeze fanning in off the ocean was dense with brine and the beach was littered with debris.
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The yard in front of the cottage was littered with discarded buckets, an old bath, a mangle and a pile of driftwood.