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WasteWaste Waste, a. [OE. wast, OF. wast, from L. vastus,
influenced by the kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosti, G.
w["u]st, OS. w?sti, D. woest, AS. w[=e]ste. Cf. Vast.]
1. Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary;
dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
The dismal situation waste and wild. --Milton.
His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into
the waste darkness of futurity. --Sir W.
Scott.
2. Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse;
rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.
But his waste words returned to him in vain.
--Spenser.
Not a waste or needless sound, Till we come to
holier ground. --Milton.
Ill day which made this beauty waste. --Emerson.
3. Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.
And strangled with her waste fertility. --Milton.
Waste gate, a gate by which the superfluous water of a
reservoir, or the like, is discharged.
Waste paper. See under Paper.
Waste pipe, a pipe for carrying off waste, or superfluous,
water or other fluids. Specifically:
(a) (Steam Boilers) An escape pipe. See under Escape.
(b) (Plumbing) The outlet pipe at the bottom of a bowl,
tub, sink, or the like.
Waste steam.
(a) Steam which escapes the air.
(b) Exhaust steam.
Waste trap, a trap for a waste pipe, as of a sink. Waste
Waste Waste, v. i.
1. To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength,
value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle;
to grow less.
The time wasteth night and day. --Chaucer.
The barrel of meal shall not waste. --1 Kings
xvii. 14.
But man dieth, and wasteth away. --Job xiv. 10.
2. (Sporting) To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; --
said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.
Waste
Waste Waste, n. (Phys. Geog.)
Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the
land, carried by streams to the sea.
Meaning of Waste from wikipedia
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Waste (or
wastes) are
unwanted or
unusable materials.
Waste is any
substance discarded after primary use, or is worthless,
defective and of no use. A...
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WASTE is a peer-to-peer and friend-to-friend
protocol and
software application developed by
Justin Frankel at
Nullsoft in 2003 that
features instant messaging...
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Waste management or
waste disposal includes the
processes and
actions required to
manage waste from its
inception to its
final disposal. This includes...
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waste container, also
known as a dustbin,
rubbish bin,
trash can, and
garbage can,
among other names, is a type of
container intended to
store waste that...
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Radioactive waste is a type of
hazardous waste that
contains radioactive material.
Radioactive waste is a
result of many activities,
including nuclear...
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wasted in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Wasted may
refer to:
Wasted:
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Judge Wasted: A
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process of
converting waste materials into new
materials and objects. This
concept often includes the
recovery of
energy from
waste materials. The recyclability...
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Electronic waste (or e-
waste)
describes discarded electrical or
electronic devices. It is also
commonly known as
waste electrical and
electronic equipment...
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Hazardous waste is
waste that must be
handled properly to
avoid damaging human health or the environment.
Waste can be
hazardous because it is toxic,...
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wasting, also
known as
wasting syndrome,
refers to the
process by
which a
debilitating disease causes muscle and fat
tissue to "
waste" away.
Wasting is...
