waste
IPA: wˈeɪst
noun
- Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
- Excrement or urine.
- A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
- A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
- A large tract of uncultivated land.
- (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
- A vast expanse of water.
- A disused mine or part of one.
- The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
- Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
- Gradual loss or decay.
- A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
- (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".
- (law) 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.
- (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
verb
- (transitive) To devastate; to destroy.
- (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
- (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
- (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
- (intransitive) To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
- (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
- (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
adjective
- (MTE, slang, derogatory) Useless and contemptible.
- (now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited.
- Barren; desert; empty.
- Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
- Superfluous; needless.
- Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
- Unfortunate; disappointing.
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Examples of "waste" in Sentences
- It is a waste of time for the layman.
- The commentaries are the waste of time.
- This waste is the same for employer-based health insurance.
- This article is a nightmare and waste of time for the layman.
- As it is the page is a nightmare and waste of time for the layman.
- How can we have an article about waste bins without oscar the grouch
- It was valuable time of the TrueColour that was wasted by the deleters.
- OK, if 13% admin waste is not enough to establish my point, then say 40%.
- Presumably the cause of this waste is the government's democratic deficit.
- Growing up, the expression "waste not, want not" was branded into my brain.
- Do you think that over a £billion a year in waste is a good thing in this system?
- During the decomposition process in the biodigester, the waste is also sterilized.
- The disposal of this waste is a big problem and the waste leaves a huge carbon footprint.
- 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.
- 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
- 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