Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - waste
Waste
waste
v., adj., & n. --v. 1 tr. use to no purpose or for inadequate result or extravagantly (waste time). 2 tr. fail to use (esp. an opportunity). 3 tr. (often foll. by on) give (advice etc.), utter (words etc.), without effect. 4 tr. & intr. wear gradually away; make or become weak; wither. 5 tr. ravage, devastate. 6 tr. treat as wasted or valueless. 7 intr. be expended without useful effect. --adj. 1 superfluous; no longer serving a purpose. 2 (of a district etc.) not inhabited or cultivated; desolate (waste ground). 3 presenting no features of interest. --n. 1 the act or an instance of wasting; extravagant or ineffectual use of an asset, of time, etc. 2 waste material or food; refuse; useless remains or by-products. 3 a waste region; a desert etc. 4 the state of being used up; diminution by wear and tear. 5 Law damage to an estate caused by an act or by neglect, esp. by a life-tenant. 6 = waste pipe. Phrases and idioms go (or run) to waste be wasted. lay waste ravage, devastate. waste-basket esp. US = waste-paper basket. waste one's breath see BREATH. waste not, want not extravagance leads to poverty. waste paper spoiled or valueless paper. waste-paper basket esp. Brit. a receptacle for waste paper. waste pipe a pipe to carry off waste material, e.g. from a sink. waste products useless by-products of manufacture or of an organism or organisms. waste words see WORD. Derivatives wastable adj. wasteless adj. Etymology: ME f. ONF wast(e), var. of OF g(u)ast(e), f. L vastus
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I. noun see: vast Date: 13th century 1. a sparsely settled or barren region ; desert, uncultivated land, a broad and empty expanse (as of water), the act or an instance of wasting ; the state of being ~d, 3. loss through breaking down of bodily tissue, gradual loss or decrease by use, wear, or decay, 4. damaged, defective, or superfluous material produced by a manufacturing process: as, material rejected during a textile manufacturing process and used usually for wiping away dirt and oil , scrap, an unwanted by-product of a manufacturing process, chemical laboratory, or nuclear reactor , refuse from places of human or animal habitation: as, garbage, rubbish, excrement, sewage, material derived by mechanical and chemical weathering of the land and moved down sloping surfaces or carried by streams to the sea, II. verb (~d; wasting) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French ~r, gaster, from Latin vastare, from vastus desolate, ~ Date: 13th century transitive verb to lay ~, to cause to shrink in physical bulk or strength ; emaciate, enfeeble , to wear away or diminish gradually ; consume, 4. to spend or use carelessly ; squander , to allow to be used inefficiently or become dissipated , kill, intransitive verb to lose weight, strength, or vitality, 2. to become diminished in bulk or substance, to become consumed, to spend money or consume property extravagantly or improvidently, see: ravage III. adjective Etymology: Middle English ~, wast, from Anglo-French wast Date: 14th century 1. a. being wild and uninhabited ; desolate, arid, empty, not cultivated ; not productive, being in a ruined or devastated condition, 3. ~ (I)] discarded as worthless, defective, or of no use ; refuse , excreted from or stored in inert form in a living body as a byproduct of vital activity , serving to conduct or hold refuse material , ~d 4 ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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