waste

Definition of waste in English English dictionary: Gradually lose weight or weaken; A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect; Use up, diminish, reduce by gradual loss; decay; emaciate
After he lost hope, he wasted away.; Excrement (animal waste, human waste); Barren; desert; To devastate or destroy; A place that has been laid waste or destroyed; Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess; Large abundance of something, especially without it being used; Uncultivated, uninhabited
So whan Sir Galahad was departed frome the Castell of Maydyns he rode tyll he com to a waste forest .; Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish; Squander money or resources uselessly; spend time idly
We wasted millions of dollars and several years on that project.; A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness; Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste"; A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away; A vast expanse of water; Superfluous; needless; Gradual loss or decay; A large tract of uncultivated land; The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use
Her life seemed a waste.; Unfortunate; Disappointing; A disused mine or part of one; Kill; murder; {v} to spend, diminish, destroy, dwindle; {n} desolate ground, a wanton destruction; {a} desolate, wild, uncultivated, ruinated; A difficult-to-determine number, waste refers to the point at which it's no longer economically sound for a marketer to continue targeting a message at you For example, if an advertiser is looking for direct response and you've seen or heard their ad 40 times without buying, they might want to consider spending their money on a different customer Waste can also refer to extravagant media expenditures, like buying every ad on "Friends" for a month; the volume of timber left on the harvested area that should have been removed in accordance with the minimum utilization standards in the cutting authority It forms part of the allowable annual cut for cut-control purposes; Anything that is discarded, useless or unwanted; opposite of conserve, as in "to waste "; get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"; Unwanted materials remaining from manufacturing processes, or refuse from humans and animals; disposed of as useless; "waste paper"; Rock which is not ore Usually referred to that rock which has to be removed during the normal course of mining in order to get at the ore; get rid of; "We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer"; any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted; "they collect the waste once a week"; "much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers"; To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc; To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out; The abuse, destruction or permanent change to property by one who is merely in possesion of it as in the case of a tenant or a life tenant; Any activity which utilizes equipment, materials, parts, space, employee time or other corporate resource beyond the minimum amount required for value-added operations to insure manufacturability These activities could include waiting, accumulating semi-processed parts, reloading, passing materials from one hand to the other and other non-productive processes The seven basic categories of waste which a business should strive to eliminate: overproduction, waiting for machines, transportation time, process time, excess inventory, excess motion and defects; If you waste something such as time, money, or energy, you use too much of it doing something that is not important or necessary, or is unlikely to succeed. There could be many reasons and he was not going to waste time speculating on them I resolved not to waste money on a hotel The system wastes a large amount of water. Waste is also a noun. It is a waste of time going to the doctor with most mild complaints I think that is a total waste of money; {s} useless, leftover, unused; pertaining to rubbish; pertaining to animal waste; desolate, barren; desert; destroyed; A waste land; an unhabited desolate region; a wilderness; 1 Unwanted materials left over from a manufacturing process 2 Refuse from places of human or animal habitation; The medieval application of the term is much like its modern connotations, but it was used in a legal sense referring to land that was unoccupied, undeveloped or uncultivated As a result the land could not be the source of any tax or other revenue to its owner Borough governments were keen to obtain control (from the lord of the town) over wasteland within the town boundaries, since they could then a lease out plots of land The term was similarly applied to property that had been allowed to deteriorate, or had even been purposely damaged, so that its value (whether in terms of selling price or rentability) decreased; If something goes to waste, it remains unused or has to be thrown away. Mexican cookery is economical, she says. Nothing goes to waste; spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree; If you waste an opportunity for something, you do not take advantage of it when it is available. Let's not waste an opportunity to see the children It was a wasted opportunity; Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc; An output with no marketable value that is discharged to the environment Normally the term "waste" refers to solid or liquid materials; Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly; "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipation of natural resources"; That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness; High-level waste (HLW) is highly radioactive material arising from nuclear fission It is recovered from reprocessing spent fuel, though some countries regard spent fuel itself as HLW and plan to dispose of it in that form It requires very careful handling, storage and disposal; Waste is material which has been used and is no longer wanted, for example because the valuable or useful part of it has been taken out. Congress passed a law that regulates the disposal of waste Up to 10 million tonnes of toxic wastes are produced every year in the UK. the process of eliminating body waste; Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea; (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect; act of squandering, as in: For the sake of our budget, we must cut down on waste in this office; use inefficiently or inappropriately; "waste heat"; "waste a joke on an unappreciative audience"; The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc; to go to decay; spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"; To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc; to waste no time: see time; An improper use or an abuse of a property by a possessor who holds less than fee ownership, such as a tenant, life tenant, mortgagor or vendee Such waste ordinarily impairs the value of the land or the interest of the person holding the title or the reversionary rights; Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc; Devastate or destroy; lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away"; an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"; Waste is the use of money or other resources on things that do not need it. The packets are measured to reduce waste I hate waste; unwanted materials left over from manufacturing or converting processes
waste away: To lose energy and become weak and feeble
She watched him wasting away from lack of food or exercise.
waste breath: To speak in a manner which is needless or futile; in discussion or argument to make points which are not appreciated or heeded
Please don't waste your breath asking me ridiculous questions, he says.
waste not, want not: If one is not wasteful then one will not be needy
I'm a believer in “waste not, want not”, and we roast our leftover bread, finely sliced and brushed with olive oil, in a low oven.
waste of space: An utterly worthless person, one unworthy of the space which he occupies
waste of time: A meaningless or fruitless activity
Asking him for money is a waste of time — he won't give you any.
waste pipe: a pipe that carries off liquid waste; a drain or drainpipe
waste product: an unwanted material produced during some manufacturing process, especially radioactive material from nuclear reactors
waste product: the unwanted results of metabolism, expelled in the urine and faeces
waste products: plural form of waste product
waste time: To allow time to elapse in an unproductive manner
waste tray: A tray placed in such a way as to collect waste (garbage) as it is produced
waste heat: Waste heat refers to heat produced by machines and technical processes for which no useful application is found, and is regarded as a waste by-product. A fraction of input energy is always converted to heat by friction between machine parts and other dissipative processes such as liquid friction (see: viscosity). Heat production in bearings can be minimised by the use of rolling-element bearings
waste heat boiler: A boiler that receives all or a substantial portion of its energy input from the combustible exhaust gases from a separate fuel-burning process
waste management: Waste management is the collection, transport, processing, recycling or disposal of waste materials, usually ones produced by human activity, in an effort to reduce their effect on human health or local aesthetics or amenity. A subfocus in recent decades has been to reduce waste materials' effect on the natural world and the environment and to recover resources from them
waste paper: Paper discarded after use
Waste Land: a long poem by T.S. Eliot. It is written in a style that was new and unusual at that time, and it has had a great influence on modern poetry (1922)
waste away: If someone wastes away, they become extremely thin or weak because they are ill or worried and they are not eating properly. Persons dying from cancer grow thin and visibly waste away
waste basket: basket for garbage, trash can
waste breath: {f} achieve or accomplish nothing by speaking
waste coal: coal that is not usable, coal that cannot be put to any use
waste disposal: A waste disposal or a waste disposal unit is a small machine in a kitchen sink that chops up vegetable waste
waste ground: an empty, unattractive piece of land that is not used for anything
waste heat: Heat energy produced in an energy conversion or transfer process that is lost during conversion or transfer and is not available for useful purposes
waste heat: an unusable form of energy which inevitably results from energy transformation
waste heat: is energy that must be dissipated to the atmosphere from a process such as the heat transferred from condensing steam in the condenser of a steam power plant is energy that must be dissipated to the atmosphere from a process such as the heat transferred from condensing steam in the condenser of a steam power plant
waste heat: (heat) Heat that is left after useful ENERGY generation F - chaleur perdue [1] S - calor perdido
waste heat: Any heat produced in excess of useful heat required in a process that has to be exhausted or is allowed to dissipate
waste land: wilderness, uncultivated land
waste of effort: a useless effort
waste of effort: effort that is useless
waste of material: a useless consumption of material
waste of money: money spent for inadequate return; "the senator said that the project was a waste of money
waste of money: unnecessary spending of money, unnecessary expense
waste of money: money spent for inadequate return; "the senator said that the project was a waste of money"
waste of resources: lack of reusing of existing resources
waste of space: person who is stupid or useless
waste of time: the devotion of time to a useless activity; "the waste of time could prove fatal"
waste of time: passing of time in a useless fashion, not putting time to good use
waste of time: the devotion of time to a useless activity; "the waste of time could prove fatal
waste one's breath: talk to the wall, talk in vain
waste one's words: speak to the wall, say things without anyone listening
waste paper: paper that has already been used
waste paper: paper that has been used and thrown away
waste pipe: pipe that carries waste liquids from a sink or bathtub
waste pipe: A pipe that carries off liquid waste
waste product: An unusable or unwanted substance or material produced during or as a result of a process, such as metabolism or manufacturing. a useless material or substance that is produced during the process of making something else by-product
waste products: debris that results form a process that is not useful any more to the system that produces it
waste steam: steam that escapes air; exhaust steam
waste stream: Waste, from the point of generation to a final destination
waste stream: The byproduct or product produced during the life cycle of any given product or material This material may be a contaminant that may or may not exceed maximum acceptable contaminant levels
waste stream: Different types of waste materials separated into different ‘streams’ depending on their source The most common streams referred to are Municipal (from domestic and council dwellings), Commercial and Industrial and Construction and Demolition
waste stream: the total flow of waste from a community, region, or facility
waste stream: is the flow or movement of wastes from the point of generation (ie household or commercial premises) to final disposal (ie landfill) A waste stream may reduce significantly over time as valuable items are separated for recycling and are recovered through resource recovery
waste stream: A term describing the total flow of solid waste from homes, businesses, institutions, and manufacturing plants that must be recycled, burned, or disposed of in landfills; or any segment thereof, such as the "residential waste stream" or the "recycled waste stream " The total waste produced by a community or society, as it moves from original to disposal
waste stream: Any waste discharged from a facility
waste stream: The total flow of solid waste from homes, businesses, institutions and manufacturing plants that is recycled, composted, burned or disposed of in landfills, or segments thereof such as the "residential waste stream" or the "recyclable waste stream "
waste stream: The steady flow of varied wastes, from domestic garbage and yard wastes to industrial, commercial, and construction refuse
waste stream: flow of a specific waste from source to deposition
waste stream: A term describing the total flow of solid waste from homes, businesses, and institutions that must be recycled, incinerated, or disposed of in landfills
waste stream: The total flow of solid waste from homes, businesses, institutions, and manufacturing plants that are recycled, burned, or disposed of in landfills, or segments thereof such as the "residential waste stream" or the "recyclable waste stream "
waste stream: the waste output of any area Top
waste stream: the "stream" of materials thrown away, including items which could be recycled or burned for energy recovery
waste stream: The total flow of solid waste from homes, businesses, institutions, and manufacturing plants that is recycled, burned, or disposed of in landfills, or segments thereof such as the "residential waste stream" or the "recyclable waste stream "
waste stream: Terminology used to refer to waste leaving a facility or operation
waste stream: overall waste disposal cycle for a given population
waste stream: All the waste a community or a society produces as goods are made, used, and thrown away
waste stream: The total waste material output of a community, region, facility, private residence, etc
waste stream: The waste material output of a community, region, or facility
waste stream: Waste material output of a community, region, or state
waste stream: The flow of waste material from generation to disposal
waste time: squander time
waste water: Water leaving a processing plant or production facility
waste water: Water that carries wastes from homes, businesses, and industries, for which disposal is more economical than use at the time and point of its occurrence Waste water to one user may be a desirable supply to the same or another user at a different location It may be waste water because of its quality, quantity, or the time of its occurrence
waste water: Water for which disposal is more economical than use at the time and point of its occurrence Waste water to one user may be a desirable supply to the same or another user at a different location It may be waste water because of its quality, quantity, or the time of its occurrence
waste water: A liquid (including storm water) that discharges into a tunnel, drain, ditch, or stream
waste water treatment: Water that is discharged from homes and businesses from sinks, toilets, washers, showers, etc It is treated through a series of separation and aeration processes A small amount of chlorine is added to Austin's wastewater before it enters the Colorado River
waste water treatment: The processing of wastewater for the removal or reduction of contained solids or other undesirable constituents Often chlorine is added to wastewater before it is returned to a source (river, etc )
waste water treatment: Any of the mechanical, chemical, or biological processes used to modify the quality of waste water in order to make it more compatible or acceptable to humans and their environment
waste-book: scrap book, book for writing rough sketches or drafts
affirmative waste: Any structural change made to an estate in land that intentionally or negligently causes harm to the estate or depletes its resources, unless this depletion is a continuation of a pre-existing use
ameliorative waste: An improvement to an estate that changes its character such that a holder of a future interest in the estate can recover damages against the owner who permitted the improvement to be be made, even if the change actually increases the value of the estate
e-waste: discarded electronic equipment
food waste disposer: a machine, built into the waste tube of a domestic sink, that shreds unwanted food and flushes it away
haste makes waste: One makes mistakes when being too hasty
laid waste: Simple past tense and past participle of lay waste
lay waste: To completely destroy
The hurricane laid waste to the better part of several counties.
laying waste: Present participle of lay waste
lays waste: Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lay waste
nuclear waste: The more or less radioactive waste produced by nuclear reactors and others
permissive waste: The legally compensable destruction of the value of property through the failure of a life tenant to maintain the property to the point where it falls into disrepair
radioactive waste: A waste type containing radioactive chemical elements that does not have a practical purpose
soda waste: the alkaline waste material that is a byproduct of the Leblanc process
toxic waste: Any waste that can cause death or injury to living creatures, especially poisonous chemical compounds
toxic-waste: Attributive form of toxic waste
toxic-waste laws.
voluntary waste: Any structural change made to an estate in land that intentionally or negligently causes harm to the estate or depletes its resources, unless this depletion is a continuation of a pre-existing use
wasted: Simple past tense and past participle of waste
wasted: Not profitably used
wasted: very drunk or stoned
wasted: Ravaged or deteriorated
wasting: Referring to something that cause a waste, particularly a wasting disease which causes pronounced loss of body mass
space waste: Space debris, also known as orbital debris, space junk, and space waste, is the collection of defunct objects in orbit around Earth. This includes everything from spent rocket stages, old satellites, fragments from disintegration, erosion, and collisions
a waste: {n} harass
wast: {v} second person singular
wasteful: {a} lavish, destructive, unoccupied
wastefully: {a} lavishly, prodigally, dissolutely
wastefulness: {n} prodigality, a needless expense
waste time: hack around
wasted: (deyim) 1. Drugged, natural high, stoned2. Badly injured, bruised, beat up
wast: (Archaic) was, second person singular past tense of the verb "be
wast: The second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense; now used only in solemn or poetical style
wast: A second person singular past tense of be. thou wast you were (was)
wast: Second-person singular simple past tense indicative of be
waste of money: money down the drain
wasted: made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape"
wasted: Emaciated and haggard
wasted: (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use; "partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm"
wasted: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"
wasted: A wasted action is one that is unnecessary. I'm sorry you had a wasted journey
wasted: Someone who is wasted is very tired and weak, often because of an illness. They look too wasted to care about much
wasted: Completely stoned, oot yer face, veggied, zonked, spaced, nuggeted, wrecked,etc
wasted: past of waste
wasted: In a deep drug stupor; very Stoned
wasted: killed
wasted: serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"
wasted: not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort"
wasted: {s} squandered; withered; fatigued (Slang); drunk (Slang)
wasteful: tending to squander and waste
wasteful: Inclined to waste or squander money or resources
wasteful: laying waste; "when wasteful war shall statues overturn"- Shakespeare
wasteful: Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful person; a wasteful disposition
wasteful: Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled
wasteful: Action that is wasteful uses too much of something valuable such as time, money, or energy. This kind of training is ineffective, and wasteful of scarce resources Try to avoid wasteful duplication of effort. using more of something than you should, especially money, time, or effort
wasteful: Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses
wasteful: laying waste; "when wasteful war shall statues overturn"- Shakespeare tending to squander and waste
wasteful: inefficient in use of time and effort and materials; "a clumsy and wasteful process"; "wasteful duplication of effort"; "uneconomical ebb and flow of power"
wasteful: {s} using more than is required; extravagant
wastefully: to a wasteful manner or to a wasteful degree; "we are still prodigally rich compared to others
wastefully: in a manner that uses more than is required, squanderingly
wastefully: to a wasteful manner or to a wasteful degree; "we are still prodigally rich compared to others"
wastefully: in a wasteful manner
wastefulness: {i} squandering, immoderation
wastefulness: imprudent or excessive expenditure or the waste of resources
wastefulness: the trait of wasting resources; "a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste"; "the wastefulness of missed opportunities"
wastefulness: useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly; "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipation of natural resources"
wastefulness: {i} thriftlessness
wastes: third-person singular of waste
wastes: plural of waste
wasting: When a child has a very low weight compared to other children of the same height (The technical definition is two standard deviations or more below the median weight for height of the reference population ) Wasting is an indicator of short-term or acute malnutrition
wasting: Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune
wasting: A term depicting how an option's value decreases over time; as each day after acquisition passes a portion of the option's time value is lost or wasted

waste

Turkish pronunciation

weyst

Synonyms

decay, desolation, destruction, devastation, dilapidation, dissipation, disuse, exhaustion, expenditure, extravagance, fritter, havoc, improvidence, lavishness, loss

Antonyms

hoarding, saving, development, possessions, hoard, save, build, create, preserve

Pronunciation

/ˈwāst/ /ˈweɪst/

Etymology

[ 'wAst ] (noun.) 13th century. From Middle English waste (noun, “a waste”), from Old Northern French wast, waste (“a waste”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *wastjo (“a waste”), derivative of *wastjan (“to waste”), possibly from Latin vastō (“to waste”), merging with Low Frankish *wōstin, *wōstinna (“a waste, wasteland”), from Proto-Germanic *wōstin- (“a waste, wasteland”), from Proto-Indo-European *wāsto- (“empty, wasted”). Cognate with Old High German waste (“a waste”), Old High German wuostī (German Wüste, “a waste”), Old High German wuostinna (“a desert, waste”), Old English wēsten (“a waste, wasteland”).