Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word WASTE

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Definitions of WASTE

1. Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
2. Excrement or urine.
3. A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
4. A large tract of uncultivated land.
5. A vast expanse of water.
6. A disused mine or part of one.
7. The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
8. Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
9. Gradual loss or decay.
10. Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
11. Superfluous; needless.
12. Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
13. Unfortunate; disappointing.
14. A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
15. A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
16. Barren; desert; empty.
17. (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
18. (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".
19. (legal) 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.
20. (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
21. (MTE, slang, derogatory) Useless and contemptible.
22. (now, rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited.
23. (transitive) To devastate; to destroy.
24. (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
25. (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
26. (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.
27. (intransitive) To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
28. (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
29. (legal) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.

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Examples of Using WASTE in a Sentence

• Biologically, it is a common nitrogenous waste, and it contributes significantly to the nutritional needs of terrestrial organisms by serving as a precursor to fertilisers.
• Blood is a body fluid in the circulatory system of humans and other vertebrates that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells, and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells.
• The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, usually known as the Basel Convention, is an international treaty that was designed to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nations, and specifically to restrict the transfer of hazardous waste from developed to less developed countries.
• Bundaberg Rum originated because the local sugar mills had a problem with what to do with the waste molasses after the sugar was extracted.
• It is commonly prepared by decomposing plant and food waste, recycling organic materials, and manure.
• Indirect calorimetry calculates heat that living organisms produce by measuring either their production of carbon dioxide and nitrogen waste (frequently ammonia in aquatic organisms, or urea in terrestrial ones), or from their consumption of oxygen.
• It is not confined to dumpsters and skips specifically and may cover standard household waste containers, curb sides, landfills or small dumps.
• Unlike selection sort, heapsort does not waste time with a linear-time scan of the unsorted region; rather, heap sort maintains the unsorted region in a heap data structure to efficiently find the largest element in each step.
• Lysosomes are degradative organelles that act as the waste disposal system of the cell by digesting used materials in the cytoplasm, from both inside and outside the cell.
• Microliths are produced from either a small blade (microblade) or a larger blade-like piece of flint by abrupt or truncated retouching, which leaves a very typical piece of waste, called a microburin.
• Although environmental pollution can be caused by natural events, the word pollution generally implies that the contaminants have an anthropogenic source – that is, a source created by human activities, such as manufacturing, extractive industries, poor waste management, transportation or agriculture.
• A primitive sewer system, with "toilets" and drains in each house, included water used to flush waste into a drain and out to the ocean.
• The main cause of the UHI effect is from the modification of land surfaces while waste heat generated by energy usage is a secondary contributor.
• King Ecgfrith of Northumbria sends a punitive expedition to Ireland under his ealdorman Berht, laying waste to the territory of Meath, ruled by High King Fínsnechta Fledach.
• The pumped blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissue, while carrying metabolic waste such as carbon dioxide to the lungs.
• Radioactive waste is a result of many activities, including nuclear medicine, nuclear research, nuclear power generation, nuclear decommissioning, rare-earth mining, and nuclear weapons reprocessing.
• Maurice Duverger argued there were two main mechanisms by which plurality voting systems lead to fewer major parties: (i) small parties are disincentivized to form because they have great difficulty winning seats or representation, and (ii) voters are wary of voting for a smaller party whose policies they actually favor because they do not want to "waste" their votes (on a party unlikely to win a plurality) and therefore tend to gravitate to one of two major parties that is more likely to achieve a plurality, win the election, and implement policy.
• Hazardous waste is waste that must be handled properly to avoid damaging human health or the environment.
• Toilet humour is commonly an interest of toddlers and young children, for whom cultural taboos related to acknowledgement of waste excretion still have a degree of novelty.
• DSB-SC is basically an amplitude modulation wave without the carrier, therefore reducing power waste, giving it a 50% efficiency.
• Heating and cooling (HVAC), waste removal, and potable water delivery are among the most common uses for plumbing, but it is not limited to these applications.
• Particular issues include the costs and benefits of alternative environmental policies to deal with air pollution, water quality, toxic substances, solid waste, and global warming.
• A slurry pipeline is a specially engineered pipeline used to move ores, such as coal or iron, or mining waste, called tailings, over long distances.
• London borough councils provide the majority of local government services (schools, waste management, social services, libraries), in contrast to the strategic Greater London Authority, which has limited authority over all of Greater London.
• Biogas is a gaseous renewable energy source produced from raw materials such as agricultural waste, manure, municipal waste, plant material, sewage, green waste, wastewater, and food waste.

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