Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To use, consume, spend, or expend thoughtlessly or carelessly.
- intransitive verb To cause to lose energy, strength, or vigor; exhaust, tire, or enfeeble.
- intransitive verb To fail to take advantage of or use for profit; lose.
- intransitive verb To destroy completely.
- intransitive verb Slang To kill; murder.
- intransitive verb To lose energy, strength, weight, or vigor; become weak or enfeebled.
- intransitive verb To pass without being put to use.
- noun The act or an instance of wasting or the condition of being wasted.
- noun A place, region, or land that is uninhabited or uncultivated; a desert or wilderness.
- noun A devastated or destroyed region, town, or building; a ruin.
- noun An unusable or unwanted substance or material, such as a waste product.
- noun Something, such as steam, that escapes without being used.
- noun Garbage; trash.
- noun The undigested residue of food eliminated from the body; excrement.
- adjective Regarded or discarded as worthless or useless.
- adjective Used as a conveyance or container for refuse.
- adjective Excreted from the body.
- idiom (waste (one's) breath) To gain or accomplish nothing by speaking.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In stone-cutting, to take off projecting irregularities of, as in preparing the stone for crating and transportation. Usually with off.
- Desert; desolate; uninhabited.
- In a state of desolation and decay; ruined; ruinous; blank; cheerless; dismal; dreary.
- Unused; untilled; unproductive.
- Rejected as unfit for use, or spoiled in the using; refuse; hence, of little or no value; useless: as, waste paper; waste materials.
- Idle; empty; vain; of no value or significance.
- Exuberant; over-abundant; hence, super-fluous; useless.
- Wasteful; prodigal; profuse.
- noun In physical geography, detritus derived by the superficial disintegration of rock-masses and in process of removal by transporting agencies; rock-waste.
- noun An old spelling of
waist . - To lay waste; devastate; destroy; ruin.
- In law, to damage, injure, or impair, as an estate, voluntarily, or by allowing the build ings, fences, etc., to fail into decay.
- To diminish or reduce in bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, as by continued use, wear, loss, decay, or disease; consume or wear away; use up; spend.
- To expend without adequate return; spend uselessly, vainly, or foolishly; employ or use lavishly, prodigally, improvidently, or carelessly; squander; throw away.
- Synonyms To ravage, pillage, plunder, strip.
- To dissipate, fritter away.
- To be consumed or grow gradually less in bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like; wear or pine away; decay or diminish gradually; dwindle.
- To cudgel.
- noun A wild, uninhabited, or desolate place or region; a desert; a wilder ness.
- noun Unfilled or uncultivated ground; a tract of land not in a state of cultivation, and producing little or no herbage or wood.
- noun In coal-mining, gob; also, the fine coal made in mining and preparing coal for the market; culm; coal-dirt; dirt: in the Pennsylvania an thracite region, used to signify both the mine-waste (or coal left in the mine in pillars, etc.) and the breaker waste.
- noun Gradual loss, diminution, or decay, as in bulk, substance, strength, or value, from continued use, wear, disease, etc.: as, waste of tissue; waste of energy.
- noun Consumption; decline; a pining away.
- noun Broken, spoiled, useless, or superfluous material; stuff that is left over, or that is unfitted or cannot readily be utilized for the purpose for which it was intended; overplus, useless, or rejected material; refuse, as the overflow water from a dam or reservoir, broken or spoiled castings in a foundry, paper scraps in a printing-office or bindery, or shreds of yarn in a cotton- or woolen-mill.
- noun Rubbish; trash; nonsense.
- noun A weir or sluice for carrying off the over flow from a dam, reservoir, or canal.
- noun A waste-pipe, or any contrivance for allowing waste matter or surplus water, steam, etc., to escape.
- noun Unnecessary or useless expenditure: as, waste of time, labor, or money.
- noun A superfluity.
- noun In law, anything suffered by a tenant in the nature of permanent injury to the inheritance, not occasioned by the act of God or a public enemy; the result of any act or omission by the tenant of a particular estate by which the estate of the remainder-man or reversioner is rendered less valuable.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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We have the total waste of $225,496,741 and this, reduced to its actual significance, means that of the total actual terminations, 83.6 per cent. was _actual waste_ and only 16.4 per cent. legitimate terminations, while the great bulk of the last item of
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Do you think that over a £billion a year in waste is a good thing in this system?
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OK, if 13% admin waste is not enough to establish my point, then say 40%.
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Growing up, the expression "waste not, want not" was branded into my brain.
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Issa, the incoming chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has been especially critical of what he calls waste in Obama's economic stimulus spending.
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This waste is the same for employer-based health insurance.
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Presumably the cause of this waste is the government's democratic deficit.
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Hopefully marvel does have a problem with this (hopefully it doesnt turn out to be something silly like an actual iron fist (tho i beleive it could work)) instead of ripping off a name why not just do a movie based on the actual character its still cool seems like a waste is all not to
Eli Roth and RZA Teaming for The Man with the Iron Fist « FirstShowing.net
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The disposal of this waste is a big problem and the waste leaves a huge carbon footprint.
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During the decomposition process in the biodigester, the waste is also sterilized.
oroboros commented on the word waste
W - As - Te (tungsten, arsenic, tellurium)
February 2, 2013