The word waste means

This article is about material waste. For the medical condition, see Wasting. For other uses, see Waste (disambiguation).

«Refuse» redirects here. For other meanings of this word, see Refusal.

Bucket loader dumping a load of waste at a waste depot

Sculpture of a crab made from discarded plastic

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 by-product, by contrast is a joint product of relatively minor economic value. A waste product may become a by-product, joint product or resource through an invention that raises a waste product’s value above zero.

Examples include municipal solid waste (household trash/refuse), hazardous waste, wastewater (such as sewage, which contains bodily wastes (feces and urine) and surface runoff), radioactive waste, and others.

Definitions

What constitutes waste depends on the eye of the beholder; one person’s waste can be a resource for another person.[1] Though waste is a physical object, its generation is a physical and psychological process.[1] The definitions used by various agencies are as below.

United Nations Environment Program

According to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal of 1989, Art. 2(1), «‘Wastes’ are substance or objects, which are disposed of or are intended to be disposed of or are required to be disposed of by the provisions of national law».[2]

United Nations Statistics Division

The UNSD Glossary of Environment Statistics[3] describes waste as «materials that are not prime products (that is, products produced for the market) for which the generator has no further use in terms of his/her own purposes of production, transformation or consumption, and of which he/she wants to dispose. Wastes may be generated during the extraction of raw materials, the processing of raw materials into intermediate and final products, the consumption of final products, and other human activities. Residuals recycled or reused at the place of generation are excluded.»

European Union

Under the Waste Framework Directive 2008/98/EC, Art. 3(1), the European Union defines waste as «an object the holder discards, intends to discard or is required to discard.»[4] For a more structural description of the Waste Directive, see the European Commission’s summary.

Types of Waste

Municipal Waste

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development also known as OECD defines municipal solid waste (MSW) as “waste collected and treated by or for municipalities”. [5] Typically this type of waste includes household waste, commercial waste, and demolition or construction waste. In 2018, the Environmental Protection Agency concluded that 292.4 tons of municipal waste was generated which equated to about 4.9 pounds per day per person. Out of the 292.4 tons, approximately 69 million tons were recycled, and 25 million tons were composted. [6]

Household Waste and Commercial Waste

Household waste more commonly known as trash or garbage are items that are typically thrown away daily from ordinary households. Items often included in this category include product packaging, yard waste, clothing, food scraps, appliance, paints, and batteries.[7] Most of the items that are collected by municipalities end up in landfills across the world. In the United States, it is estimated that 11.3 million tons of textile waste is generated. On an individual level, it is estimated that the average American throws away 81.5 pounds of clothes each year.[8] As online shopping becomes more prevalent, items such as cardboard, bubble wrap, shipping envelopes are ending up in landfills across the United States. The EPA has estimated that approximately 10.1 million tons of plastic containers and packaging ended up landfills in 2018. The EPA noted that only 30.5% of plastic containers and packaging was recycled or combusted as an energy source. Additionally, approximately 940,000 pounds of cardboard ends up in the landfill each year.[9]

Commercial waste is very similar to household waste. To be considered as commercial waste, it must come from a business or commercial occupancy. This can be restaurants, retail occupants, manufacturing occupants or similar businesses. Typically, commercial waste contains similar items such as food scraps, cardboard, paper, and shipping materials.[10] Generally speaking, commercial waste creates more waste than household waste on a per location basis.

Construction and Demolition Waste

The EPA defines this type of waste as “Construction and Demolition (C&D) debris is a type of waste that is not included in municipal solid waste (MSW).”[11] Items typically found in C&D include but are not limited to steel, wood products, drywall and plaster, brick and clay tile, asphalt shingles, concrete, and asphalt. Generally speaking, construction and demolition waste can be categorized as any components needed to build infrastructures. In 2018, the EPA estimated that the US generated approximately 600 million tons of C&D waste. [11]  The waste generated by construction and demolition is often intended to be reused or is sent to the landfill. Examples of reused waste is milled asphalt can be used again for the asphalt mixture or fill dirt can be used to level grade.

Hazardous Waste

The EPA defines hazardous waste as “a waste with properties that make it dangerous or capable of having a harmful effect on human health or the environment.”[12]  Hazardous Waste falls under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).  Under the RCRA, the EPA has the authority to control hazardous waste during its entire lifecycle. [13]This means from the point of creation to the point where it has been properly disposed of. The life cycle of hazardous waste includes generation, transportation, treatment, and storage and disposal. All of which are included in the RCRA. Some forms of hazardous waste include radioactive waste, explosive waste, and electronic waste.

Radioactive Waste

Radioactive waste, often referred to as nuclear waste, is produced by various industries such as nuclear power plants, nuclear reactors, hospitals, research centers, and mining facilities. Any activity that involves radioactive material can generate radioactive waste.[14] Furthermore, such waste emits radioactive particles, which if not handled correctly, can be both an environmental hazard as well as a human health hazard.[14] When dealing with radioactive waste, it is extremely important to understand the necessary protocols and follow the correct precautions. Failure to handle and recycle these materials can have catastrophic consequences and potentially damage the site’s ecosystems for years to come.[14]

Radioactive waste is monitored and regulated by multiple governmental agencies such as Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Department of Energy (DOE), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Transportation (DOT), and Department of the Interior (DOI).  Each agency plays an important role in creating, handling, and properly disposing of radioactive waste. A brief description of each agency’s role can be found below.

NRC: “Licenses and regulates the receipt and possession of high-level waste at privately owned facilities and at certain DOE facilities.” [15]

DOE: “Plans and carries out programs for sand handling of DOE-generated radioactive wastes, develops waste disposal technologies, and will design, construct and operate disposal facilities for DOE-generated and commercial high-level wastes.”[15]

EPA: “Develops environmental standards and federal radiation protection guidance for offsite radiation due to the disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level and transuranic radioactive wastes.”[15]

DOT: “Regulates both the packaging and carriage of all hazardous materials including radioactive waste.”[15]

DOI: “Through the U.S. Geological Survey, conducts laboratory and field geologic investigations in support of DOE’s waste disposal programs and collaborates with DOE on earth science technical activities.”[15]

The US currently defines five types of radioactive waste, as shown below.

High-level Waste: This type of radioactive waste is generated from nuclear reactors or reprocessing spent nuclear fuel.[14]

Transuranic Waste: This type of radioactive waste is man-made and has an atomic number of 92 or higher.[14]

Uranium or thorium mill tailings: This type of radioactive waste is a result after the mining or milling or uranium or thorium ore.[14]

Low-level waste: This type of radioactive waste is radioactively contaminated waste. It is typically generated from industrial processes or research. Examples of these items include paper, protective clothing, bags, and cardboard.[14]

Technologically enhanced naturally-occurring radioactive material (TENORM): This type of radioactive waste is created through human activity such as mining, oil and gas drilling, and water treatment where naturally-occurring radiological material (NORM) becomes concentrated.[14]

Energetic Hazardous Waste

The EPA defines energetic hazardous waste as “wastes that have the potential to detonate and bulk military propellants which cannot safely be disposed of through other modes of treatments.”[16] The items which typically fall under this category include munitions, fireworks, flares, hobby rockets, and automobile propellants.

Munitions

Munitions were added to hazardous waste in 1997 when the EPA finalized RCRA. A special rule was added to address munitions in waste. This new rule is commonly referred to as the Military Munitions Rule.[16] The EPA defines military munitions as “all types of both conventional and chemical ammunition products and their components, produced by or for the military for national defense and security (including munitions produced by other parties under contract to or acting as an agent for DOD—in the case of Government Owned/Contractor Operated [GOCO] operations).” [16] The entire rule can be found here. While a large percentage of munitions waste is generated by the government or governmental contractors, residents also throw away expired or faulty ammunition inside their household waste.

Fireworks, Flares, and Hobby Rockets

Every year, the US generates this type of waste from both the commercial and consumer aspects. This waste is often generated from fireworks, signal flares and hobby rockets which have been damaged, failed to operate or for other reasons. Due to their chemical properties, these types of devices are extremely dangerous.

Automobile Airbag Propellants

While automobile airbag propellants are not as common as munitions and fireworks, they share similar properties which makes them extremely hazardous. Airbag propellants characteristics of reactivity and ignitability are the characteristics which qualify for hazardous waste. When disposed undeployed, leaves these two hazardous characteristics intact. To properly dispose of these items, they must be safely deployed which removes these hazardous characteristics.[17]

The EPA includes the waste of automobile airbag propellants under the RCRA. In 2018, the EPA issued a final rule on handling of automobile airbag propellants. The “interim final rule”provides an exemption of entities which install and remove airbags. This includes automobile dealerships, salvage yards, automobile repair facilities and collision centers. The handler and transporter are exempt from RCRA, but the airbag waste collection facility is not exempt. Once the airbags have met the collection center, it will then be classified as RCRA hazardous waste and must be disposed or recycled at a RCRA disposal facility.[17]

Electronic Waste

Electronic waste, often referred to as “E-Waste” or “E-Scrap,” are often thrown away or sent to a recycler. E-Waste continues to end up in landfills across the world. The EPA estimates that in 2009, 2.37 million tons of televisions, computers, cell phones, printers, scanners, and fax machines were discarded by US consumers. Only 25% of these devices were recycled; the remainder ended up in landfills across the US.

E-Waste contains many elements that can be recycled or re-used. Typically speaking, electronics are encased in a plastic or light metal enclosure. Items such as computer boards, wiring, capacitors, and small motor items are common types of E-waste. Of these items, the internal components include oil, iron, gold, palladium, platinum, and copper. All of which are mined from the earth’s core. For these items to be mined, it requires massive amounts of energy to operate the equipment, which emits greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Donating e-waste to recycling centers or refurbishing this equipment can reduce the greenhouse gases emitted through the mining process. It will also lower the usage of our naturally formed products to ensure future generations will have sufficient natural resources.

As this issue continued to grow, President Obama established the Interagency Task Force on Electronics Stewardship in November 2010. The overall goal for this task was to develop a national strategy for handling and proper disposal of electronic waste. The task force would work with the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), EPA, and the US General Services Administration (GSA). The task force released the final product, the National Strategy for Electronics Stewardship report. The report focuses on four goals of the federal government’s plan to enhance the management of electronics, as shown below.[18]

1.     Incentivizing greener design of electronics

2.     Leading by example

3.     Increasing domestic recycling

4.     Reducing harmful exports of e-waste and building capacity in developing countries.[18]

E-Waste is not only a problem in the US, but also a global issue. To tackle this issue, requires collaboration from multiple agencies across the world. Some agencies include U.S. EPA, Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration (Taiwan EPA), International E-Waste Management Network (IEMN), and environmental offices from Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and North America.[19]

Mixed Waste

Mixed waste is a term that has different definitions based its context. Most commonly, Mixed Waste refers to hazardous waste which contains radioactive material. In this context, the management of mixed waste is regulated by the EPA and RCRA and Atomic Energy Act. The Hazardous materials content is regulated by RCRA while the radiological component is regulated by the Department of Energy (DOE) and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

Mixed waste can also be defined as a type of waste which includes recyclable materials and organic materials.[20]  Some examples of mixed waste in this context include a combination of broken glassware, floor sweepings, non-repairable household goods, non-recyclable plastic and metal, and clothing and furnishings. Additionally, ashes and soot, residential renovation waste materials are also included under this definition.[20]

Medical Waste

This type of waste is typically generated from hospitals, physicians’ offices, dental practices, blood banks, veterinary offices, and research facilities. This waste has often been contaminated with bodily fluids from humans or animals. Examples of this type of contamination can include blood, vomit, urine, and other bodily fluids. Concerns started to generate when medical waste was appearing on east coast beaches in the 1980’s. This forced congress to pass the Medical Waste Tracking Act. This act was only in effect for approximately 3 years after the EPA concluded the “disease-causing medical waste was greatest at the point of generation and naturally tapers off after that point.”[21]

Prior to the Hospital Medical Infectious Waste Incinerator (HMIWI) standard, approximately 90% of the infectious waste was incinerated before 1997. Due to the potential of negatively affect air quality, alternative treatment and disposal technologies for medical waste was developed. These new alternatives include:

  • Thermal Treatment, such as microwave technologies
  • Steam sterilization, such as autoclaving
  • Electropyrolysis
  • Chemical mechanical systems [21]

Reporting

Waste generation, measured in kilograms per person per day.

There are many issues that surround reporting waste. It is most commonly measured by size or weight, and there is a stark difference between the two. For example, organic waste is much heavier when it is wet, and plastic or glass bottles can have different weights but be the same size.[22] On a global scale it is difficult to report waste because countries have different definitions of waste and what falls into waste categories, as well as different ways of reporting. Based on incomplete reports from its parties, the Basel Convention estimated 338 million tonnes of waste was generated in 2001.[23] For the same year, OECD estimated 4 billion tonnes from its member countries.[24] Despite these inconsistencies, waste reporting is still useful on a small and large scale to determine key causes and locations, and to find ways of preventing, minimizing, recovering, treating, and disposing waste.

Costs

Environmental costs

Inappropriately managed waste can attract rodents and insects, which can harbour gastrointestinal parasites, yellow fever, worms, the plague and other conditions for humans, and exposure to hazardous wastes, particularly when they are burned, can cause various other diseases including cancers. [25]Toxic waste materials can contaminate surface water, groundwater, soil, and air which causes more problems for humans, other species, and ecosystems.[26] A form of waste disposal involving combustion creates a significant amount of greenhouse gases. When the burned waste contains metals, it can create toxic gases. On the other hand, when the waste contains plastics, the gases produce contain CO2.[27] As global warming and CO2 emission increase, soil begins to become a larger carbon sink and will become increasingly volatile for our plant life. [28]

Waste management is a significant environmental justice issue. Many of the environmental burdens cited above are more often borne by marginalized groups, such as racial minorities, women, and residents of developing nations. NIMBY (not in my back yard) is the opposition of residents to a proposal for a new development because it is close to them.[29] However, the need for expansion and siting of waste treatment and disposal facilities is increasing worldwide. There is now a growing market in the transboundary movement of waste, and although most waste that flows between countries goes between developed nations, a significant amount of waste is moved from developed to developing nations.[30]

Economic costs

The economic costs of managing waste are high, and are often paid for by municipal governments;[31] money can often be saved with more efficiently designed collection routes, modifying vehicles, and with public education. Environmental policies such as pay as you throw can reduce the cost of management and reduce waste quantities. Waste recovery (that is, recycling, reuse) can curb economic costs because it avoids extracting raw materials and often cuts transportation costs. «Economic assessment of municipal waste management systems – case studies using a combination of life-cycle assessment (LCA) and life-cycle costing (LCC)».[32] The location of waste treatment and disposal facilities often reduces property values due to noise, dust, pollution, unsightliness, and negative stigma. The informal waste sector consists mostly of waste pickers who scavenge for metals, glass, plastic, textiles, and other materials and then trade them for a profit. This sector can significantly alter or reduce waste in a particular system, but other negative economic effects come with the disease, poverty, exploitation, and abuse of its workers.[33]

Affecting communities

People in developing countries suffer from contaminated water and landfills caused by unlawful government policies that allow first-world countries and companies to transport their trash to their homes and oftentimes near bodies of water. Those same governments do not use any waste trade profits to create ways to manage landfills or clean water sources. Photographer Kevin McElvaney[34] documents the world’s biggest e-waste dump called Agbogbloshie in Accra, Ghana, which used to be a wetland. The young men and children that work in Agbogbloshie smash devices to get to the metals, obtain burns, eye damage, lung and back problems, chronic nausea, debilitating headaches, and respiratory problems and most workers die from cancer in their 20s (McElvaney).[34]In McElvaney’s photos, kids in fields burning refrigerators and computers with blackened hands and trashed clothes and animals, such as cows with open wounds, in the dumpsite. There are piles of waste used as makeshift bridges over lakes, with metals and chemicals just seeping into the water and groundwater that could be linked to homes’ water systems. The same unfortunate situation and dumps/landfills can be seen in similar countries that are considered the third world, such as other West African countries and China. Many Advocating for waste management, stop waste trade, create wastewater treatment facilities, and ultimately provide a clean and accessible water source. The health of all these people in landfills and water are human necessities/rights that are being taken away.[34]

Management

A specialized trash collection truck providing regular municipal trash collection in a neighborhood in Stockholm, Sweden

Waste pickers burning e-waste in Agbogbloshie, a site near Accra in Ghana that processes large volumes of international electronic waste. The pickers burn the plastics off of materials, and collect the metals for recycling. However this process exposes pickers and their local communities to toxic fumes.

Containers for consumer waste collection at the Gdańsk University of Technology

A recycling and waste-to-energy plant for waste that is not exported

Waste management or waste disposal includes the processes and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal.[35]
This includes the collection, transport, treatment and disposal of waste, together with monitoring and regulation of the waste management process and waste-related laws, technologies, economic mechanisms.

Waste can be solid, liquid, or gases and each type has different methods of disposal and management. Waste management deals with all types of waste, including industrial, biological, household, municipal, organic, biomedical, radioactive wastes. In some cases, waste can pose a threat to human health.[36] Health issues are associated throughout the entire process of waste management. Health issues can also arise indirectly or directly: directly through the handling of solid waste, and indirectly through the consumption of water, soil and food. Waste is produced by[37] human activity, for example, the extraction and processing of raw materials.[38] Waste management is intended to reduce adverse effects of waste on human health, the environment, planetary resources and aesthetics.

The aim of waste management is to reduce the dangerous effects of such waste on the environment and human health. A big part of waste management deals with municipal solid waste, which is created by industrial, commercial, and household activity.

Waste management practices are not uniform among countries (developed and developing nations); regions (urban and rural areas), and residential and industrial sectors can all take different approaches.[39]

Proper management of waste is important for building sustainable and liveable cities, but it remains a challenge for many developing countries and cities. A report found that effective waste management is relatively expensive, usually comprising 20%–50% of municipal budgets. Operating this essential municipal service requires integrated systems that are efficient, sustainable, and socially supported.[40] A large portion of waste management practices deal with municipal solid waste (MSW) which is the bulk of the waste that is created by household, industrial, and commercial activity.[41] According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), municipal solid waste is expected to reach approximately 3.4 Gt by 2050; however, policies and lawmaking can reduce the amount of waste produced in different areas and cities of the world.[42] Measures of waste management include measures for integrated techno-economic mechanisms[43] of a circular economy, effective disposal facilities, export and import control[44][45] and optimal sustainable design of products that are produced.

In the first systematic review of the scientific evidence around global waste, its management and its impact on human health and life, authors concluded that about a fourth of all the municipal solid terrestrial waste is not collected and an additional fourth is mismanaged after collection, often being burned in open and uncontrolled fires – or close to one billion tons per year when combined. They also found that broad priority areas each lack a «high-quality research base», partly due to the absence of «substantial research funding», which motivated scientists often require.[46][47] Electronic waste (ewaste) includes discarded computer monitors, motherboards, mobile phones and chargers, compact discs (CDs), headphones, television sets, air conditioners and refrigerators. According to the Global E-waste Monitor 2017, India generates ~ 2 million tonnes (Mte) of e-waste annually and ranks fifth among the e-waste producing countries, after the United States, the People’s Republic of China, Japan and Germany.[48]

Wastewater facilities

Wastewater treatment facilities remove pollutants and contaminants physically and chemically to clean water to be returned to society. The South Gippsland Water Organization breaks down the three steps of waste-water treatment. The primary treatment is to sift through the water to remove large solids to leave oils and small particles in the water. Secondary treatment to dissolve/remove oils, particles, and micro-organisms from the water to be prepared for tertiary treatment to chemically disinfect the water with chlorine or with UV light. “For most industrial applications, a 150,000 GPD capacity WWTS would cost an estimated $500,000 to $1.5 million inclusive of all necessary design, engineering, equipment, installation, and startup”[49]. With such a simple solution that has been proven to clean our water to be reused and is relatively inexpensive, there is no excuse why there should not be a waste-water treatment facility in every country, every state, and every town.

Benefits

“Right now, according to a NASA-led study, many of the world’s freshwater sources are being drained faster than they are being replenished. The water table is dropping all over the world. There’s not an infinite supply of water”.[50] There is a need to preserve every resource, every finite water source that we do have left to maintain our lives and lifestyles. Able countries helping under-developed countries with their creation of wastewater treatments benefits society. With the addition of wastewater treatment facilities with spending a few million dollars and infrastructure to clean our areas and freshwater to reuse instead of over-using our land and water supply, which would be the greatest cost. Another cost of not adding wastewater treatments in countries is that people have no choice but to clean with, cook with, or drink the contaminated water which has caused millions of disease cases and deaths. “Between 400,000 and 1 million people die each year in developing countries because of diseases caused by mismanaged waste, estimates poverty charity Tearfund”[51]. Society has the means to decrease or even eliminate this way of death and save millions of lives by providing the simple human necessity of clean water.

Utilization

Resource recovery

Resource recovery is using wastes as an input material to create valuable products as new outputs. The aim is to reduce the amount of waste generated, thereby reducing the need for landfill space, and optimising the values created from waste.[52] Resource recovery delays the need to use raw materials in the manufacturing process. Materials found in municipal solid waste, construction and demolition waste,[53] commercial waste and industrial wastes can be used to recover resources for the manufacturing of new materials and products. Plastic, paper, aluminium, glass and metal are examples of where value can be found in waste.

Resource recovery goes further than just the management of waste. Resource recovery is part of a circular economy, in which the extraction of natural resources and generation of wastes are minimised, and in which materials and products are designed more sustainably for durability, reuse, repairability, remanufacturing and recycling.[54] Life-cycle analysis (LCA) can be used to compare the resource recovery potential of different treatment technologies.

Resource recovery can also be an aim in the context of sanitation. Here, the term refers to approaches to recover the resources that are contained in wastewater and human excreta (urine and feces). The term «toilet resources» has come into use recently.[55] Those resources include: nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus), organic matter, energy and water. This concept is also referred to as ecological sanitation. Separation of waste flows can help make resource recovery simpler. Examples include keeping urine separate from feces (as in urine diversion toilets) and keeping greywater and blackwater separate.

People who earn their living by collecting and sorting garbage and selling them for recycling (waste pickers), Smokey Mountain, Philippines.

Energy recovery

Energy recovery from waste is using non-recyclable waste materials and extracting from it heat, electricity, or energy through a variety of processes, including combustion, gasification, pyrolyzation, and anaerobic digestion.[56] This process is referred to as waste-to-energy.

There are several ways to recover energy from waste. Anaerobic digestion is a naturally occurring process of decomposition where organic matter is reduced to a simpler chemical component in the absence of oxygen.[56] Incineration or direct controlled burning of municipal solid waste to reduce waste and make energy. Secondary recovered fuel is the energy recovery from waste that cannot be reused or recycled from mechanical and biological treatment activities.[56] Pyrolysis involves heating of waste, with the absence of oxygen, to high temperatures to break down any carbon content into a mixture of gaseous and liquid fuels and solid residue.[56] Gasification is the conversion of carbon rich material through high temperature with partial oxidation into a gas stream.[56] Plasma arc heating is the very high heating of municipal solid waste to temperatures ranging from 3,000 to 10,000 °C, where energy is released by an electrical discharge in an inert atmosphere.[56]

Using waste as fuel can offer important environmental benefits. It can provide a safe and cost-effective option for wastes that would normally have to be dealt with through disposal.[56] It can help reduce carbon dioxide emissions by diverting energy use from fossil fuels, while also generating energy and using waste as fuel can reduce the methane emissions generated in landfills by averting waste from landfills.[56]

There is some debate in the classification of certain biomass feedstock as wastes. Crude Tall Oil (CTO), a co-product of the pulp and papermaking process, is defined as a waste or residue in some European countries when in fact it is produced “on purpose” and has significant value add potential in industrial applications. Several companies use CTO to produce fuel,[57] while the pine chemicals industry maximizes it as a feedstock “producing low-carbon, bio-based chemicals” through cascading use.[58]

Education and awareness

Education and awareness in the area of waste and waste management is increasingly important from a global perspective of resource management. The Talloires Declaration is a declaration for sustainability concerned about the unprecedented scale and speed of environmental pollution and degradation, and the depletion of natural resources. Local, regional, and global air pollution; accumulation and distribution of toxic wastes; destruction and depletion of forests, soil, and water; depletion of the ozone layer and emission of «green house» gases threaten the survival of humans and thousands of other living species, the integrity of the earth and its biodiversity, the security of nations, and the heritage of future generations. Several universities have implemented the Talloires Declaration by establishing environmental management and waste management programs, e.g. the waste management university project. University and vocational education are promoted by various organizations, e.g. WAMITAB and Chartered Institution of Wastes Management.

Gallery

  • Vegetable waste being dumped in a market in Hyderabad

    Vegetable waste being dumped in a market in Hyderabad

  • Weapon scraps

    Weapon scraps

  • Agobox; Bio-medical Waste

    Agobox; Bio-medical Waste

  • Hospital waste

  • Waste collected in a tricycle

    Waste collected in a tricycle

  • used cigarette boxes

    used cigarette boxes

  • Recycling point at the Gdańsk University of Technology

  • Containers for selective waste collection at the Gdańsk University of Technology

    Containers for selective waste collection at the Gdańsk University of Technology

See also

  • Biological hazard
  • Chemical hazards
  • Environmental dumping
  • Fly-tipping
  • Garbage truck
  • Global waste trade
  • Human waste
  • List of waste management acronyms
  • Litter
  • Midden
  • Recycling
  • Scrap
  • Waste Atlas
  • Waste by country
  • Waste collection
  • Waste converter
  • Waste management

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Источник

отходы, потери, лом, пустыня, терять, тратить впустую, негодный, отработанный

существительное ↓

- растрачивание, ненужная или излишняя трата; расточительство

waste of time — напрасная трата времени 
waste of fuel — перерасход топлива 
what a waste of energy! — какая пустая /бессмысленная/ трата сил! 
to go /to run/ to waste — а) тратиться непроизводительно; б) оставаться неиспользованным; в) идти в отходы 
to cut to waste — а) кроить (ткань) нерасчётливо /неэкономно/; б) сл. напрасно тратить (время) 

- потери, убыль; ущерб, убыток
- юр. повреждение, порча; небрежное отношение (арендатора к нанятому имуществу и т. п.)
- отходы (тж. waste products); обрезки, обрывки (бумаги и т. п.) выжимки
- концы, обтирочный материал

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глагол ↓

- расточать, растрачивать, непроизводительно расходовать, напрасно тратить (деньги и т. п.); терять (время и т. п.)

to waste words /breath/ — говорить на ветер 
to waste one’s life — прожигать /проводить бесцельно/ жизнь 
his efforts were wasted — его усилия пропали даром 
to be wasted on /upon/ smb. — остаться непонятым, непризнанным, не произвести впечатления на кого-л. 
actor wasted on provincial audiences — актёр, загубивший свой талант в провинциальных театрах 
my joke was wasted on him — моя шутка до него не дошла 
all advice will be wasted on him — давать ему советы бесполезно 

- пропадать попусту; растрачиваться без пользы

turn the water off, don’t let it waste — закрой кран, чтобы вода зря не текла 

- упускать

to waste an opportunity — упустить возможность 

- опустошать; разорять; портить; разрушать

Roman legions wasted their country — римские легионы опустошили /разорили/ их страну 

- юр. портить арендованное имущество

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прилагательное ↓

- пустынный; незаселённый; невозделанный; непроизводительный, неплодородный; засушливый

to lie waste — быть неиспользованной /невозделанной, необработанной/ (о земле) 
waste life — бесплодно прожитая жизнь 
the waste periods of history — образн. бедные событиями исторические периоды 

- опустошённый

to lay waste — опустошать, разорять 
to be waste — амер. сл. промотаться, сидеть без денег 

- излишний, ненужный; напрасный

waste stowage /tonnage/ — мор. неиспользованный тоннаж 

- негодный; бракованный

waste products — отходы (производства) 
waste iron — железный лом, скрап 
waste wood — щепа, отходы древесины 

- тех. отработанный

waste steam — отработанный пар 
waste heat — отработанное тепло 

Мои примеры

Словосочетания

the trackless wastes of the desert — непроходимые и бесплодные земли пустыни  
regulations on the disposal of waste — нормативные акты по утилизации отходов  
the discharge of toxic waste into the sea — сброс токсичных отходов в море  
the off-site disposal of harmful waste — внеплощадочная утилизация вредных отходов  
to waste / spend one’s breath — пускать слова на ветер, попусту тратить слова  
toxic waste dump — свалка токсичных отходов  
fervent waste — знойная пустыня  
to recover the waste heat — рекуперировать отбросное тепло  
to waste a neutron — терять нейтрон  
purposeless waste of time — бессмысленная трата времени  
waste water reclamation — очистка промышленных вод  
filling by waste rock — закладка попутной породы  
tailings go to waste — хвосты идут в отвал  

Примеры с переводом

He was not going to waste time. 

Он не собирался терять время даром.

Don’t waste your money on that junk! 

Не стоит тратить деньги на эту рухлядь!

I decided not to waste money on a hotel. 

Я решил не тратить денег на гостиницу.

All his efforts were wasted. 

Все его усилия были безрезультатны. / Все его усилия были тщетны.

Haste makes waste. посл. 

Поспешишь — людей насмешишь.

The afternoon wasted away. 

День угас.

Please pitch your waste paper in here. 

Пожалуйста, бросайте использованную бумагу сюда.

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Примеры, ожидающие перевода

His talents were being wasted as a lawyer.  

…waste acreage that was not fit for anything…  

Being unemployed is such a waste of your talents.  

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Возможные однокоренные слова

wastage  — потери, убыль, утечка, усушка, изнашивание
wasteful  — расточительный, нерасчетливый
waster  — расточитель, брак, беспризорный ребенок, никудышный человек, бездомный человек
wasting  — атрофия, исхудание, упадок сил, опустошительный, изнурительный
wasted  — привыкший к наркотикам
wasteless  — безотходный, неистощимый, неисчерпаемый

Формы слова

verb
I/you/we/they: waste
he/she/it: wastes
ing ф. (present participle): wasting
2-я ф. (past tense): wasted
3-я ф. (past participle): wasted

noun
ед. ч.(singular): waste
мн. ч.(plural): wastes

Источник

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 ❋ Thomas William Lawson (1891)

Do you think that over a £billion a year in waste is a good thing in this system? ❋ Not A Sheep (2009)

OK, if 13% admin waste is not enough to establish my point, then say 40%. ❋ Nick Anthis (2006)

Growing up, the expression «waste not, want not» was branded into my brain. ❋ Hayley Linfield (2011)

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. ❋ AP (2011)

This waste is the same for employer-based health insurance. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Presumably the cause of this waste is the government’s democratic deficit. ❋ J.H. Snider (2010)

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 ❋ Unknown (2008)

The disposal of this waste is a big problem and the waste leaves a huge carbon footprint. ❋ Unknown (2008)

During the decomposition process in the biodigester, the waste is also sterilized. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Well this is what I call a waste of shuttle space. ❋ Scifirantergirl (2007)

What to do with the waste is a huge problem with nuclear power. ❋ Unknown (2005)

She is even taking on other issues, such as the Beijing Olympics, which she describes as a waste of resources in a country where millions still live without access to clean drinking water, decent education or health care. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Doreen had fetched Meg and had driven into Hertford, annoyed at what she called the waste of her precious time, but excited too, and Cora had driven herself from Kent, excited in a controlled way, anxious to get the business over and get back to her modern, split-level house with its well-kept garden and the double garage. ❋ Neels, Betty (1987)

‘Well, I dare say; but a man of very bad character, Dr. Bryerly says; and he has written to Mr. Danvers about it — for that is what they call waste, cutting down and selling the timber, and the oakbark, and burning the willows, and other trees that are turned into charcoal. ❋ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1843)

Reform Committee, has been especially critical of what he calls waste in Obama’s economic stimulus spending. ❋ Unknown (2011)

1/ That [session] was waste2/That [trick] was waste ❋ HeDgEs18 (2005)

[Dave] you are a [waste of flesh] dont [talk to me]. ❋ Jon (2005)

Manun: Man, my [drawing] is [horrible]!!
Mike: You are suck [a waste]. ❋ Lizardman154 (2006)

I just [realized] waste was [another word] for [doop]. ❋ Speedy (2003)

[Loneliness] is [a waste] of [time] ❋ Dia Spora (2019)

Yo I Wasted Him Yo! That Mutha Fukka Be Gone Yo! Word Up G-Dog, Betta [Cova] Yo Hole For You Get Wasted By That [Mutha’s] [Bretta] Yo! ❋ Sowhatman973 (2003)

1. Laura: I cant believe he still aint got a job Paris: Hes [waste man].
Random girl walks in Random girl: i [lashed] three boys today Laura & Paris: [Errrrrr] your a waste girl.
2. Paris walks up to Rival. Paris: DEOXYRYBONUCLEIC ACID!!!!!! (this means DNA) Rival: :O Why would you do that ? Your Actually WASTE!
P.S: The two girls writing this are also actually waste! (the second version) ❋ Paris And Laura =D (2008)

I’m gonna go to [my house] and waste for [a few] [hours]. ❋ Joe (2004)

[Chuck] is going to waste [Timmy] [after school] today. ❋ BigJeff375 (2004)

He was [so drunk] that he [wasted] his [daiquiri] all over the floor. ❋ Nola2014 (2014)

Источник

waste

to use carelessly; lose; squander: It’s not good to waste food.

Not to be confused with:

waist – the narrow middle part of an object: She wore a sash at her waist.

Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree Copyright © 2007, 2013 by Mary Embree

waste

 (wāst)

v. wast·ed, wast·ing, wastes

v.tr.

1. To use, consume, spend, or expend thoughtlessly or carelessly.

2. To cause to lose energy, strength, or vigor; exhaust, tire, or enfeeble: Disease wasted his body.

3. To fail to take advantage of or use for profit; lose: waste an opportunity.

4.

a. To destroy completely: The invaders wasted the village.

b. Slang To kill; murder.

v.intr.

1. To lose energy, strength, weight, or vigor; become weak or enfeebled: wasting away from an illness.

2. To pass without being put to use: Time is wasting.

n.

1. The act or an instance of wasting or the condition of being wasted: a waste of talent; gone to waste.

2. A place, region, or land that is uninhabited or uncultivated; a desert or wilderness.

3. A devastated or destroyed region, town, or building; a ruin.

4.

a. An unusable or unwanted substance or material, such as a waste product: industrial wastes.

b. Something, such as steam, that escapes without being used.

5. Garbage; trash.

6. The undigested residue of food eliminated from the body; excrement.

adj.

1. Regarded or discarded as worthless or useless: waste trimmings.

2. Used as a conveyance or container for refuse: a waste bin.

3. Excreted from the body: waste matter.

Idiom:

waste (one’s) breath

To gain or accomplish nothing by speaking.

[Middle English wasten, from Old North French waster, from Latin vāstāre, to make empty, from vāstus, empty; see euə- in Indo-European roots.]

Synonyms: waste, blow1, dissipate, fritter1, squander
These verbs mean to spend or expend without restraint and often to no avail: wasted my inheritance; blew a fortune at the casino; dissipated their energies in pointless argument; frittering away her entire allowance; squandered his talent on writing jingles.

Antonym: save1

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

waste

(weɪst)

vb

1. (tr) to use, consume, or expend thoughtlessly, carelessly, or to no avail

2. (tr) to fail to take advantage of: to waste an opportunity.

3. (Medicine) (when: intr, often foll by away) to lose or cause to lose bodily strength, health, etc

4. to exhaust or become exhausted

5. (tr) to ravage

6. (tr) informal to murder or kill: I want that guy wasted by tomorrow.

n

7. the act of wasting or state of being wasted

8. a failure to take advantage of something

9. anything unused or not used to full advantage

10. anything or anyone rejected as useless, worthless, or in excess of what is required

11. garbage, rubbish, or trash

12. (Physical Geography) (usually plural) a land or region that is wild or uncultivated

13. (Physical Geography) obsolete a land or region that is devastated or ruined

14. (Physiology) physiol

a. the useless products of metabolism

b. indigestible food residue

15. (Physical Geography) disintegrated rock material resulting from erosion

16. (Law) law reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect, esp by a life-tenant

adj

17. rejected as useless, unwanted, or worthless

18. produced in excess of what is required

19. not cultivated, inhabited, or productive: waste land.

20. (Physiology)

a. of or denoting the useless products of metabolism

b. of or denoting indigestible food residue

21. destroyed, devastated, or ruined

22. designed to contain or convey waste products

23. lay waste to devastate or destroy

[C13: from Anglo-French waster, from Latin vastāre to lay waste, from vastus empty]

ˈwastable adj

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

waste

(weɪst)

v. wast•ed, wast•ing,
n., adj. v.t.

1. to consume or use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste natural resources.

2. to fail or neglect to use.

3. to destroy or consume gradually; wear away: waves wasting the rocky shore.

4. to wear down or reduce in bodily substance or strength; emaciate; enfeeble: to be wasted by disease.

5. to devastate or ruin: a country wasted by a long futile war.

6. Slang. to kill or murder.

v.i.

7. to be consumed or employed uselessly or inadequately.

8. to become gradually used up or worn away.

9. to become physically worn, esp. emaciated or enfeebled.

10. to diminish gradually, as wealth or power; dwindle.

n.

11. useless consumption or expenditure; an act or instance of wasting: a complete waste of my time.

12. neglect, instead of use.

13. gradual impairment or decay.

14. devastation or ruin.

15. an area devastated or ruined: a blackened waste where timberland had stood.

16. anything unused, inadequately used, or unproductive.

17. desolate country, as desert.

18. something left over or superfluous: salvaging factory wastes.

19. material derived by mechanical and chemical disintegration of rock, as the detritus transported by streams, rivers, etc.

20. garbage; refuse.

21. wastes, excrement.

adj.

22. not used or in use: waste energy.

23. (of land, regions, etc.) wild; desolate.

24. (of regions, towns, etc.) in a state of desolation and ruin.

25. left over; superfluous: to utilize the waste products of manufacture.

26. rejected as useless or worthless; refuse.

27. Physiol. pertaining to material unused by or unusable to the organism.

28. designed or used to receive or carry away useless material (often in combination): a waste pipe.

Idioms:

1. go to waste, to be wasted, rather than used or consumed.

2. lay waste, to devastate; destroy.

[1150–1200; Middle English < Old North French waster (Old French g(u)aster) < Latin vāstāre, derivative of vāstus desolate; Old North French w-, Old French gu- by influence of c. Frankish *wōsti desolate (c. Old High German wuosti)]

wast′a•ble, adj.

Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

waste

  • wastrel — Pronounced WAYS-trul, it is either a wasteful or worthless person, derived from the verb «waste,» from Latin vastus, «desert, waste.»
  • bratwurst — From German Brat, «meat without waste,» and Wurst, «sausage.»
  • eat your heart out — Goes back as far as Diogenes Laertius, who credited Pythagoras with saying «Do not eat your heart»—meaning «Don’t waste your life worrying about something»—2,500 years ago.
  • sullage — Waste from household sinks, showers, and baths—but not toilets; it also figuratively means filth or refuse.

Farlex Trivia Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.

Waste

 

  1. In delay we waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day —William Shakespeare
  2. Wasted his wealth like spittle —Stephen Vincent Benet
  3. Wasted more money in a day than a Boeing 747 full of proverbial welfare queens could have squandered in a century —Hodding Carter III, Wall Street Journal March 30, 1986

    Carter’s simile referred to new defense spending policies.

  4. Wasteful as drunkenness at undue times —Robert Browning
  5. Wasteful as regrets —Anon

Similes Dictionary, 1st Edition. © 1988 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

waist

– waste

These words are both pronounced /weɪst/.

1. ‘waist’

Waist is a noun. Your waist is the middle part of your body, above your hips.

She tied a belt around her waist.

He was naked from the waist up.

2. ‘waste’ used as a verb

Waste is most commonly a verb. If you waste time, money, or energy, you use it on something that is unimportant or unnecessary.

You‘re wasting time asking him to help – he won’t.

We wasted money on a computer that didn’t work.

3. ‘waste’ used as a noun

You can also say that something is a waste of time, money, or energy.

I’ll never do that again. It’s a waste of time.

It’s a waste of money buying a new washing machine when we could repair the old one.

Waste also refers to material that has been used and is no longer wanted, for example because the useful part has been removed.

The river was full of industrial waste.

Your kidneys help to remove waste from your body.

Collins COBUILD English Usage © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 2004, 2011, 2012

waste

Past participle: wasted
Gerund: wasting

Imperative
waste
waste
Present
I waste
you waste
he/she/it wastes
we waste
you waste
they waste
Preterite
I wasted
you wasted
he/she/it wasted
we wasted
you wasted
they wasted
Present Continuous
I am wasting
you are wasting
he/she/it is wasting
we are wasting
you are wasting
they are wasting
Present Perfect
I have wasted
you have wasted
he/she/it has wasted
we have wasted
you have wasted
they have wasted
Past Continuous
I was wasting
you were wasting
he/she/it was wasting
we were wasting
you were wasting
they were wasting
Past Perfect
I had wasted
you had wasted
he/she/it had wasted
we had wasted
you had wasted
they had wasted
Future
I will waste
you will waste
he/she/it will waste
we will waste
you will waste
they will waste
Future Perfect
I will have wasted
you will have wasted
he/she/it will have wasted
we will have wasted
you will have wasted
they will have wasted
Future Continuous
I will be wasting
you will be wasting
he/she/it will be wasting
we will be wasting
you will be wasting
they will be wasting
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been wasting
you have been wasting
he/she/it has been wasting
we have been wasting
you have been wasting
they have been wasting
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been wasting
you will have been wasting
he/she/it will have been wasting
we will have been wasting
you will have been wasting
they will have been wasting
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been wasting
you had been wasting
he/she/it had been wasting
we had been wasting
you had been wasting
they had been wasting
Conditional
I would waste
you would waste
he/she/it would waste
we would waste
you would waste
they would waste
Past Conditional
I would have wasted
you would have wasted
he/she/it would have wasted
we would have wasted
you would have wasted
they would have wasted

Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun 1. waste - any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwantedwaste — 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»

waste material, waste matter, waste product

material, stuff — the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; «coal is a hard black material»; «wheat is the stuff they use to make bread»

dross, impurity — worthless or dangerous material that should be removed; «there were impurities in the water»

exhaust, exhaust fumes, fumes — gases ejected from an engine as waste products

body waste, excrement, excreta, excretory product, excretion — waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body

filth, skank, crud — any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant

sewage, sewerage — waste matter carried away in sewers or drains

effluent, sewer water, wastewater — water mixed with waste matter

food waste, garbage, refuse, scraps — food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

pollutant — waste matter that contaminates the water or air or soil

rubbish, trash, scrap — worthless material that is to be disposed of

slop — (usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand; «she carried out the sink slops»

toxic industrial waste, toxic waste — poisonous waste materials; can cause injury (especially by chemical means)
2. waste - useless or profitless activitywaste — 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, dissipation

boondoggle — work of little or no value done merely to look busy

activity — any specific behavior; «they avoided all recreational activity»

waste of effort, waste of energy — a useless effort

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 time — the devotion of time to a useless activity; «the waste of time could prove fatal»

high life, highlife, lavishness, prodigality, extravagance — excessive spending

squandering — spending resources lavishly and wastefully; «more wasteful than the squandering of time»
3. waste - the trait of wasting resourceswaste — the trait of wasting resources; «a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste»; «the wastefulness of missed opportunities»

thriftlessness, wastefulness

improvidence, shortsightedness — a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources
4. waste - an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivationwaste — an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; «the barrens of central Africa»; «the trackless wastes of the desert»

barren, wasteland

heathland, heath — a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation

wild, wilderness — a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition; «it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers»
5. waste — (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect

permissive waste

human action, human activity, act, deed — something that people do or cause to happen

law, jurisprudence — the collection of rules imposed by authority; «civilization presupposes respect for the law»; «the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order»
Verb 1. waste — spend thoughtlessly; throw away; «He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends»; «You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree»

squander, blow

expend, use — use up, consume fully; «The legislature expended its time on school questions»

blow — spend lavishly or wastefully on; «He blew a lot of money on his new home theater»

burn — spend (significant amounts of money); «He has money to burn»

economize, husband, economise, conserve — use cautiously and frugally; «I try to economize my spare time»; «conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit»
2. waste — use inefficiently or inappropriately; «waste heat»; «waste a joke on an unappreciative audience»

apply, employ, use, utilise, utilize — put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose; «use your head!»; «we only use Spanish at home»; «I can’t use this tool»; «Apply a magnetic field here»; «This thinking was applied to many projects»; «How do you utilize this tool?»; «I apply this rule to get good results»; «use the plastic bags to store the food»; «He doesn’t know how to use a computer»
3. waste — get rid of; «We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer»

chuck out, discard, cast aside, cast away, throw away, toss away, toss out, put away, throw out, cast out, dispose, fling, toss — throw or cast away; «Put away your worries»
4. waste — run off as waste; «The water wastes back into the ocean»

run off

course, flow, run, feed — move along, of liquids; «Water flowed into the cave»; «the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi»
5. waste — get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; «The mafia liquidated the informer»; «the double agent was neutralized»

do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralise, neutralize

kill — cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; «This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank»; «The farmer killed a pig for the holidays»
6. waste - spend extravagantlywaste — spend extravagantly; «waste not, want not»

ware, squander, consume

fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, fool, dissipate, shoot — spend frivolously and unwisely; «Fritter away one’s inheritance»

luxuriate, wanton — become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously

lavish, shower — expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns; «He was showered with praise»

overspend — spend at a high rate

expend, spend, drop — pay out; «spend money»

splurge, fling — indulge oneself; «I splurged on a new TV»
7. waste — lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; «After her husband died, she just pined away»

languish, pine away

weaken — become weaker; «The prisoner’s resistance weakened after seven days»
8. waste — cause to grow thin or weak; «The treatment emaciated him»

emaciate, macerate

debilitate, enfeeble, drain — make weak; «Life in the camp drained him»
9. waste — cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; «The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion»

devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, desolate

ruin, destroy — destroy completely; damage irreparably; «You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!»; «The tears ruined her make-up»

ruin — reduce to ruins; «The country lay ruined after the war»
10. waste — become physically weaker; «Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world»

rot

degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, drop — grow worse; «Her condition deteriorated»; «Conditions in the slums degenerated»; «The discussion devolved into a shouting match»

gangrene, necrose, sphacelate, mortify — undergo necrosis; «the tissue around the wound necrosed»
Adj. 1. waste - located in a dismal or remote areawaste — located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; «a desert island»; «a godforsaken wilderness crossroads»; «a wild stretch of land»; «waste places»

godforsaken, wild

inhospitable — unfavorable to life or growth; «the barren inhospitable desert»; «inhospitable mountain areas»

Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.

waste

verb

1. squander, throw away, blow (slang), run through, lavish, misuse, dissipate, fritter away, frivol away (informal) We can’t afford to waste money on another holiday.
squander save, protect, preserve, conserve, economize, husband

2. wear out, wither, deplete, debilitate, drain, undermine, exhaust, disable, consume, gnaw, eat away, corrode, enfeeble, sap the strength of, emaciate a cruel disease which wastes the muscles

noun

1. squandering, misuse, loss, expenditure, extravagance, frittering away, lost opportunity, dissipation, wastefulness, misapplication, prodigality, unthriftiness The whole project is a complete waste of time and resources.
squandering saving, economy, thrift, good housekeeping, frugality

2. rubbish, refuse, debris, sweepings, scrap, litter, garbage, trash, leftovers, offal, dross, dregs, leavings, offscourings This country produces 10 million tonnes of toxic waste every year.

adjective

2. uncultivated, wild, bare, barren, empty, devastated, dismal, dreary, desolate, unproductive, uninhabited Yarrow can be found growing wild on waste ground.
uncultivated cultivated, developed, productive, in use, fruitful, arable, verdant, habitable

lay something waste devastate, destroy, ruin, spoil, total (slang), sack, undo, trash (slang), ravage, raze, despoil, wreak havoc upon, depredate (rare) The war has laid waste large regions of the country.

waste away decline, dwindle, wither, perish, sink, fade, crumble, decay, wane, ebb, wear out, atrophy People dying from cancer grow thin and visibly waste away.

Proverbs
«It’s no use making shoes for geese»

Usage: Waste and wastage are to some extent interchangeable, but many people think that wastage should not be used to refer to loss resulting from human carelessness, inefficiency, etc.: a waste (not a wastage) of time, money, effort, etc.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

waste

verb

1. To use up foolishly or needlessly:

2. To spend (money) excessively and usually foolishly:

3. To pass (time) without working or in avoiding work:

4. To lose strength or power.Also used with away:

5. To fail to take advantage of:

6. To do away with completely and destructively:

7. To destroy completely as or as if by conquering:

8. Slang. To cause the death of:

9. Slang. To take the life of (a person or persons) unlawfully:

noun

1. Excessive or imprudent expenditure:

2. A tract of unproductive land:

The American Heritage® Roget’s Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Translations

أرْض خَراب أو غَيْر خَصْبَهضَياعضَيَاعنُفايَه، فُضالَهيُبَدِّدُ

odpadplýtváníplýtvat

spildeaffalden forspildt mulighedødemarkspild

tuhlatatuhlaushukatakuihtua

otpadrasipati

pusztaság

eyîa, sóaeyîimörk, öræfi, auîneyîsla, sóunúrgangur

浪費浪費する

낭비낭비하다

atliekosdykvietėeikvojimas veltuigaišintimakulatūra

atkritumiizšķiešanaplašumišķiesttērēt

odpadpremárnenie

odpadkizapravljanjezapravljati

slösa bortsopor

ใช้ไปโดยเปล่าประโยชน์การสูญเสียโดยเปล่าประโยชน์

phung phísự phung phí

Collins Spanish Dictionary — Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

waste

[ˈweɪst]

n

to lay sth waste, to lay waste to sth → dévaster qch

modif

[energy, heat] → des déchets
a waste energy site → une installation de coïncinération waste materials

vt

(= use too much of) [+ money, water, fuel] → gaspiller
I don’t like wasting money → Je n’aime pas gaspiller l’argent.

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

waste

vi (food) → umkommen; (skills) → verkümmern; (body) → verfallen; (strength, assets) → schwinden; waste not, want not (Prov) → spare in der Zeit, so hast du in der Not (Prov)

waste

:

waste

:

waste heat

n (from engine etc) → Abwärme f

waste heat recovery

n → Abwärmerückgewinnung f

wastepaper

n → Papierabfall m; (fig) → Makulatur f

waste

:

waste recovery

n → Abfallaufbereitung f, → Müllaufbereitung f

waste reprocessing plant

n → Abfallwiederaufbereitungsanlage f, → Müllverwertungswerk nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

waste

[weɪst]

1. adj (material) → di scarto; (food) → avanzato/a; (land, ground, in city) → abbandonato/a, desolato/a; (in country) → incolto/a
to lay waste → devastare

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

waste

(weist) verb

to fail to use (something) fully or in the correct or most useful way. You’re wasting my time with all these stupid questions.

noun

1. material which is or has been made useless. industrial waste from the factories; (also adjective) waste material.

2. (the) act of wasting. That was a waste of an opportunity.

3. a huge stretch of unused or infertile land, or of water, desert, ice etc. the Arctic wastes.

ˈwastage (-tidʒ) noun

loss by wasting; the amount wasted. Of the total amount, roughly 20% was wastage.

ˈwasteful adjective

involving or causing waste. Throwing away that bread is wasteful.

ˈwastefully adverbˈwastefulness nounwaste paper

paper which is thrown away as not being useful. Offices usually have a great deal of waste paper.

wastepaper basket (ˈweispeipə)

a basket or other (small) container for waste paper. Put those old letters in the wastepaper basket.

waste pipe (ˈweispaip)

a pipe to carry off waste material, or water from a sink etc. The kitchen waste pipe is blocked.

waste away

to decay; to lose weight, strength and health etc. He is wasting away because he has a terrible disease.

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

waste

→ ضَيَاع, يُبَدِّدُ plýtvání, plýtvat spild, spilde verschwenden, Verschwendung σπατάλη, σπαταλώ desperdiciar, desperdicio tuhlata, tuhlaus gaspillage, gaspiller otpad, rasipati rifiuto, sprecare 浪費, 浪費する 낭비, 낭비하다 afval, verspillen avfall, sløse (bort) odpady, zmarnować desperdiçar, desperdício расточительство, тратить впустую slösa bort, sopor ใช้ไปโดยเปล่าประโยชน์, การสูญเสียโดยเปล่าประโยชน์ israf, israf etmek phung phí, sự phung phí 浪费

Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

waste

n. desperdicio, residuo, gasto inútil; merma, pérdida;

___ of time → pérdida de tiempo;

v. desperdiciar, desgastar, malgastar;

to ___ away → demacrarse, consumirse.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

waste

n desechos, residuos; hazardous — desechos or residuos peligrosos; medical — desechos or residuos médicos; metabolic — desechos or residuos metabólicos; vt desperdiciar; (money) malgastar; We don’t want to waste health care dollars..No queremos malgastar recursos sanitarios.

English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.

Источник

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    waste

    English-Russian dictionary of biology and biotechnology > waste

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    waste

    waste [weɪst]

    1) изли́шняя тра́та;

    2) поте́ри; у́быль, уще́рб, убы́ток, по́рча

    3) пусты́ня

    4) отбро́сы, отхо́ды, уга́р, обре́зки, лом

    1) ли́шний, нену́жный;

    2) пусты́нный, незаселённый; невозде́ланный; опустошённый;

    4) него́дный, брако́ванный

    1) расточа́ть (деньги, энергию

    и т.п.

    ); теря́ть (вре́мя); тра́тить впусту́ю;

    2) изнуря́ть;

    3) ча́хнуть; истоща́ться, приходи́ть к концу́ (

    тж.

    waste away)

    4) по́ртить;

    5) опустоша́ть

    Англо-русский словарь Мюллера > waste

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    waste

    Англо-русский словарь строительных терминов > waste

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    waste

    waste equipment

    санитарное оборудование

    waste hose

    шланг слива

    waste tank

    сливной бак бытовой системы

    English-Russian aviation dictionary > waste

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    waste

    США. Лингвострановедческий англо-русский словарь > waste

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    waste

    Dictionary of packaging machinery and equipment > waste

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    WASTE

    убить, иногда — разгромить, иногда — потратить впустую.

    Wasted (to be) = wiped out; torn up; tweeked out; twisted — обычно — сидящий на наркотиках или мертвецки пьяный. Но может иметь и буквальный смысл — убитый.

    American slang. English-Russian dictionary > WASTE

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    waste

    Персональный Сократ > waste

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    waste

    1. n растрачивание, ненужная или излишняя трата; расточительство

    2. n потери, убыль; ущерб, убыток

    3. n юр. повреждение, порча; небрежное отношение

    4. n отходы; обрезки, обрывки выжимки

    5. n концы, обтирочный материал

    waste end — конец, отрезаемый в отходы

    6. n текст. угар; очёски; рвань

    7. n металлический лом, скрап

    8. n полигр. макулатура; лишние листы

    paper waste — бумажный брак; макулатура; отходы бумаги

    9. n утиль

    10. n мусор; отбросы

    11. n сточные воды

    12. n физиол. выделения

    13. n износ, изнашивание

    14. n потеря веса, исхудание

    15. n уменьшение; упадок

    16. n пустыня

    17. n пустынное пространство

    18. n пустошь, пустырь; бросовая земля

    waste land — пустующий участок земли; пустошь

    19. n юр. бесхозная земля

    20. n горн. пустая порода

    21. n геол. материал, уносимый потоком в море

    level of waste removal — степень извлечения загрязняющих веществ; степень очистки сточных вод

    22. a пустынный; незаселённый; невозделанный; непроизводительный, неплодородный; засушливый

    23. a опустошённый

    24. a излишний, ненужный; напрасный

    25. a негодный; бракованный

    26. a тех. отработанный

    27. v расточать, растрачивать, непроизводительно расходовать, напрасно тратить; терять

    run to waste — тратиться непроизводительно; тратиться попусту

    28. v пропадать попусту; растрачиваться без пользы

    29. v упускать

    30. v опустошать; разорять; портить; разрушать

    31. v юр. портить арендованное имущество

    32. v истощаться, иссякать, приходить к концу

    33. v изнурять, истощать

    34. v чахнуть, умирать

    to waste away, to pine away — чахнуть

    35. v редк. идти, течь

    36. v амер. сл. избить до полусмерти

    37. v амер. сл. убить, уничтожить

    38. v амер. сл. спорт. терять в весе; сгонять вес

    Синонимический ряд:

    1. barren (adj.) barren; desert; deserted; desolate; uninhabited; wild

    2. devastated (adj.) decayed; destroyed; devastated; ghost; laid waste; ravaged; ruined; sacked

    3. useless (adj.) extra; superfluous; unused; useless

    4. badland (noun) badland; barren; desert; wasteland; wild; wild land; wilderness; wildness

    5. devastation (noun) decay; decline; destruction; devastation; diminution; dissipation; loss; ruin; spoliation

    6. extravagance (noun) extravagance; extravagancy; lavishness; overdoing; prodigality; profligacy; squander; unthrift; wastefulness

    7. refuse (noun) debris; dreck; garbage; junk; kelter; litter; offal; outsweepings; refuse; riffraff; rubbish; spilth; sweepings; swill; trash

    8. blow (verb) blow; blunder; blunder away; cast away; consume; dissipate; dribble away; drivel; expend; fool away; fritter; fritter away; frivol away; misspend; muddle away; potter away; prodigalize; riot away; spend; squander; throw away; trifle away

    10. erode (verb) decay; diminish; dwindle; erode; reduce; wear away; wear down

    11. fail (verb) decline; deteriorate; fade; fail; flag; languish; wane; weaken; wither

    14. ravage (verb) deflower; depredate; desecrate; desolate; despoil; devast; devour; harry; havoc; lay waste; pillage; plunder; ravage; ruin; sack; scourge; spoil; spoliate; strip

    Антонимический ряд:

    abstain; acquire; augment; collect; conserve; develop; enrich; erect; establish; flourish; furnish; gain; get; preserve; thrift

    English-Russian base dictionary > waste

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    waste

    [weɪst]

    waste портить; to be entirely wasteed стать полностью непригодным к употреблению construction waste строительный мусор cotton waste текст. обтирочный материал cotton waste текст. угар dangerous waste опасные отходы equitable waste потери, распределяемые по справедливости food waste пищевые отходы waste изнурять; he was wasted by disease болезнь изнурила его waste пустынный, незаселенный; невозделанный; опустошенный; waste land (или ground) пустырь, пустошь; to lay waste опустошать to lie waste быть невозделанным (о земле) to waste money бросать деньги на ветер; to waste words говорить на ветер; тратить слова попусту; my joke was wasted upon him он не понял моей шутки nuclear waste радиоактивные отходы waste излишняя трата; oil waste перерасход масла; to run (или to go) to waste быть потраченным попусту, = идти коту под хвост waste излишняя трата; oil waste перерасход масла; to run (или to go) to waste быть потраченным попусту, = идти коту под хвост storage waste отходы при хранении waste безвозвратные потери в процессе производства waste бесхозная земля waste бракованный waste излишняя трата; oil waste перерасход масла; to run (или to go) to waste быть потраченным попусту, = идти коту под хвост waste излишняя трата waste износ waste изнурять; he was wasted by disease болезнь изнурила его waste лишний, ненужный; waste effort напрасное усилие; waste products отходы; waste paper макулатура waste невозделанный waste негодный, бракованный waste незаселенный waste ненужный waste опустошать waste отбросы, отходы, угар, обрезки, лом waste отбросы, отходы waste тех. отработанный; waste steam отработанный пар waste отработанный waste портить; to be entirely wasteed стать полностью непригодным к употреблению waste портить waste портить чужое имущество waste потери; убыль, ущерб, убыток, порча waste потери; убыль, ущерб, убыток, порча waste потери waste горн. пустая порода waste пустынный, незаселенный; невозделанный; опустошенный; waste land (или ground) пустырь, пустошь; to lay waste опустошать waste пустынный waste пустыня waste юр. разорение, порча; небрежное отношение (особ. арендатора к чужому имуществу) waste разорение, порча; небрежное отношение (особ. арендатора к чужому имуществу) waste разорять waste расточать (деньги, энергию и т. п.); терять (время); тратить впустую waste расточительство waste растрачивание waste растрачивать waste убыль waste убыток waste чахнуть; истощаться, приходить к концу (тж. waste away) waste лишний, ненужный; waste effort напрасное усилие; waste products отходы; waste paper макулатура to waste money бросать деньги на ветер; to waste words говорить на ветер; тратить слова попусту; my joke was wasted upon him он не понял моей шутки waste of money пустая трата денег waste of resources разбазаривание ресурсов waste of time пустая трата времени waste лишний, ненужный; waste effort напрасное усилие; waste products отходы; waste paper макулатура waste лишний, ненужный; waste effort напрасное усилие; waste products отходы; waste paper макулатура waste тех. отработанный; waste steam отработанный пар to waste money бросать деньги на ветер; to waste words говорить на ветер; тратить слова попусту; my joke was wasted upon him он не понял моей шутки

    English-Russian short dictionary > waste

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    waste

    2) скрап, лом

    3) горн. пустая порода

    4) горн. выработанное пространство

    5) лесн. обрезки

    6) цел.-бум. срыв бумаги

    12) ж.-д. буксовая подбивка

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    Англо-русский словарь технических терминов > waste

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    waste

    1. угары; отходы; рвань; очёски; пух с машин;
    2. обтирочный материал;
    3. отработанный;
    4. негодный; бракованный
    @waste at cards
    угары кардного чесания
    @waste at combers
    угары гребенного чесания
    @waste of material
    отходы сырья
    @waste of time
    простой
    @basin waste
    неразмот коконов, бассинет
    @burr waste
    1. угары с обезрепеивающей машины;
    2. отходы карбонизации шерсти
    @card waste
    кардные очёски
    @card front waste
    рвань чесальной ленты
    @card lap waste
    рвань холста
    @China waste
    промытые шёлковые отходы высшего качества
    @cleaning waste
    1. обтирочные концы;
    2. пух
    @clearer waste
    пух с чистителей
    @comber waste
    гребенные очёски
    @cop bottom waste
    недоработанные початки, начинки
    @cotton waste
    1. угары хлопкопрядения;
    2. хлопчатобумажные обтирочные концы
    @crow waste
    угары с чистительных валиков
    @cutting waste
    обрезки, отходы, остатки
    @drawing waste
    рвань ленты
    @dusthouse waste
    подвальный пух; трубная пыль; угар из пылеосадочных камер и труб
    @engine cleaning waste
    обтирочные концы
    @filament waste
    отходы волокна химического прядения
    @fly waste
    1. пух ;
    2. невозвратные угары, невидимые угары
    @gin waste
    угары первичной обработки хлопка
    @good waste
    чистые угары, прядомые угары
    @gum waste
    необесклееные шёлковые отходы
    @hard waste
    1. жёсткие угары; 2.крутые концы с прядильной, мотальной или сновальной машины;
    3. недоработанные початки, начинки;
    4. путанка;
    5. шлихтованные концы
    @hard twisted waste
    крутые концы
    @industrial waste
    промышленные отходы
    @invisible waste
    невозвратные угары, невидимые угары
    @lap waste
    рвань холста
    @liker-in waste
    орешек и пух с приёмного барабана
    @loom waste
    угары ткачества; концы от заправки основ
    @low soft waste
    низкосортные мягкие угары
    @mill waste
    фабричные угары; фабричные отходы
    @picker waste
    орешек и пух с трепальной машины
    @reeling waste
    1. отходы кокономотания;
    2. отходы перемотки шёлка
    @reworkable waste
    обраты, прядомые угары
    @ring waste
    обраты, прядомые угары; рвань мычки с прядильной машины
    @roller waste
    пух с валиков и цилиндров
    @roving waste
    рвань ровницы; угары предпрядения
    @selvage waste
    обраты, прядомые угары
    @Shanghai waste
    китайские шёлковые отходы
    @Shanghai long waste
    длинные китайские шёлковые отходы
    @side waste
    сброс в угар прядомого волокна; потеря полноценного волокна
    @silk waste
    шёлковые отходы; шёлковые угары
    @soft waste
    прядомые мягкие угары
    @spinners waste
    угары прядения
    @spinning waste
    угары прядения
    @staple fiber waste
    отходы штапельного волокна; угары штапельного волокна
    @steam waste
    отходы кокономотания
    @thread waste
    1. путанка, рвань пряжи;
    2. рвань шёлка;
    3. обрывки нитей
    @visible waste
    видимые угары
    @warp waste
    угары сновки; отходы основы
    @warper’s waste
    угары со сновальной машины
    @washed waste
    угары с машины мокрого кручения
    @weaver’s waste
    угары ткачества
    @weft waste
    отходы утка
    @winders waste
    угары с мотальной машины
    @winding waste
    угары со сновальной машины
    @wiping waste
    1. обтирочные концы;
    2. пух
    @yarn waste
    1. путанка, рвань пряжи;
    2. крутые концы
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    Англо-русский текстильный словар > waste

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    waste

    1. угары; отходы; рвань; очёски; пух с машин;
    2. обтирочный материал;
    3. отработанный;
    4. негодный; бракованный
    @waste at cards
    угары кардного чесания
    @waste at combers
    угары гребенного чесания
    @waste of material
    отходы сырья
    @waste of time
    простой
    @basin waste
    неразмот коконов, бассинет
    @burr waste
    1. угары с обезрепеивающей машины;
    2. отходы карбонизации шерсти
    @card waste
    кардные очёски
    @card front waste
    рвань чесальной ленты
    @card lap waste
    рвань холста
    @China waste
    промытые шёлковые отходы высшего качества
    @cleaning waste
    1. обтирочные концы;
    2. пух
    @clearer waste
    пух с чистителей
    @comber waste
    гребенные очёски
    @cop bottom waste
    недоработанные початки, начинки
    @cotton waste
    1. угары хлопкопрядения;
    2. хлопчатобумажные обтирочные концы
    @crow waste
    угары с чистительных валиков
    @cutting waste
    обрезки, отходы, остатки
    @drawing waste
    рвань ленты
    @dusthouse waste
    подвальный пух; трубная пыль; угар из пылеосадочных камер и труб
    @engine cleaning waste
    обтирочные концы
    @filament waste
    отходы волокна химического прядения
    @fly waste
    1. пух ;
    2. невозвратные угары, невидимые угары
    @gin waste
    угары первичной обработки хлопка
    @good waste
    чистые угары, прядомые угары
    @gum waste
    необесклееные шёлковые отходы
    @hard waste
    1. жёсткие угары; 2.крутые концы с прядильной, мотальной или сновальной машины;
    3. недоработанные початки, начинки;
    4. путанка;
    5. шлихтованные концы
    @hard twisted waste
    крутые концы
    @industrial waste
    промышленные отходы
    @invisible waste
    невозвратные угары, невидимые угары
    @lap waste
    рвань холста
    @liker-in waste
    орешек и пух с приёмного барабана
    @loom waste
    угары ткачества; концы от заправки основ
    @low soft waste
    низкосортные мягкие угары
    @mill waste
    фабричные угары; фабричные отходы
    @picker waste
    орешек и пух с трепальной машины
    @reeling waste
    1. отходы кокономотания;
    2. отходы перемотки шёлка
    @reworkable waste
    обраты, прядомые угары
    @ring waste
    обраты, прядомые угары; рвань мычки с прядильной машины
    @roller waste
    пух с валиков и цилиндров
    @roving waste
    рвань ровницы; угары предпрядения
    @selvage waste
    обраты, прядомые угары
    @Shanghai waste
    китайские шёлковые отходы
    @Shanghai long waste
    длинные китайские шёлковые отходы
    @side waste
    сброс в угар прядомого волокна; потеря полноценного волокна
    @silk waste
    шёлковые отходы; шёлковые угары
    @soft waste
    прядомые мягкие угары
    @spinners waste
    угары прядения
    @spinning waste
    угары прядения
    @staple fiber waste
    отходы штапельного волокна; угары штапельного волокна
    @steam waste
    отходы кокономотания
    @thread waste
    1. путанка, рвань пряжи;
    2. рвань шёлка;
    3. обрывки нитей
    @visible waste
    видимые угары
    @warp waste
    угары сновки; отходы основы
    @warper’s waste
    угары со сновальной машины
    @washed waste
    угары с машины мокрого кручения
    @weaver’s waste
    угары ткачества
    @weft waste
    отходы утка
    @winders waste
    угары с мотальной машины
    @winding waste
    угары со сновальной машины
    @wiping waste
    1. обтирочные концы;
    2. пух
    @yarn waste
    1. путанка, рвань пряжи;
    2. крутые концы
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    Англо-русский текстильный словар > waste

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    waste

    отходы
    имя существительное:

    глагол:

    изнурять (run Down, exhaust, wear, harass, fatigue, waste)

    имя прилагательное:

    Англо-русский синонимический словарь > waste

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    waste

    weɪst
    1. сущ.
    1) растрачивание, расточительство;
    излишняя или ненужная трата a terrible waste of time and money ≈ большая трата времени и денег cut down on waste go to waste run to waste Syn: squander
    2.
    2) а) потери;
    порча, убыль, убыток, ущерб б) юр. разорение, порча;
    небрежное отношение( особ. арендатора к чужому имуществу)
    3) а) лом, обрезки, отбросы, отходы, угар hazardous wastes nuclear wastes radioactive wastes solid wastes toxic wastes Syn: debris, garbage, junk I
    1., refuse II
    1., rubbish
    1., trash б) обыкн. мн. нечистоты, сточные воды Syn: sewage, excrement
    4) пустыня, пустынный район Syn: desert I
    1.
    5) горн. пустая порода
    2. прил.
    1) а) пустынный, незаселенный, малолюдный, малонаселенный;
    опустошенный;
    тж. перен. waste land — waste ground lay waste Syn: desert I
    2., desolate
    1., arid, empty
    1., uninhabited б) невозделанный, неплодородный( о почве) ;
    тж. перен. lie waste Syn: barren
    1., uncultivated
    2) а) ненужный, непригодный, бесполезный Syn: useless, unnecessary, needless б) тех. отработанный waste products waste paper Syn: refuse II
    2.
    3) бракованный, непригодный( о товарах) Syn: defective
    1., rejected
    3. гл.
    1) расточать (деньги, энергию и т. п.) ;
    терять (время, возможность и т. п.) ;
    тратить впустую( on — на что-л.) All his efforts were wasteed. ≈ Все его усилия не привели ни к какому результату. He was not going to wast time. ≈ Он не собирался терять время даром. I decided not to waste money on a hotel. ≈ Я решил не тратить деньги на гостиницу. Let’s not waste an opportunity to see the children. ≈ Надо не упустить шанс повидаться с детьми. Syn: squander
    2.
    2) опустошать, разорять, портить Syn: lay waste, devastate, ravage
    2., ruin
    2.
    3) изматывать, изнурять, переутомлять, подрывать силы all the wars that wasted our strength ≈ войны, подорвавшие наши силы Syn: exhaust
    2., wear out, emaciate, enfeeble
    4) чахнуть;
    истощаться, приходить к концу (тж. waste away) Since my aunt’s operation, she has simply been wasting away and may not last long. ≈ С тех пор, как моей тете сделали операцию, силы очень быстро покидают ее и, возможно, она долго не протянет. растрачивание, ненужная или излишняя трата;
    расточительство — * of time напрасная трата времени — * of fuel перерасход топлива — what a * of energy! какая пустая /бессмысленная/ трата сил! — to go /to run/ to * тратиться непроизводительно;
    оставаться неиспользованным;
    идти в отходы — to cut to * кроить (ткань) нерасчетливо /неэкономно/;
    (сленг) напрасно тратить (время) потери, убыль;
    ущерб, убыток (юридическое) повреждение, порча;
    небрежное отношение( арендатора к нанятому имуществу и т. п.) отходы (тж. * products) ;
    обрезки, обрывки (бумаги и т. п.) ;
    выжимки концы, обтирочный материал( текстильное) угар;
    очески;
    рвань — thread /yarn/ * путанка, рвань пряжи — cotton * пакля — * of flax кострика металлический лом, скрап (полиграфия) макулатура;
    лишние листы (оставшиеся после изготовления тиража) утиль мусор;
    отбросы pl сточные воды( физиологическое) выделения( организма) износ, изнашивание потеря веса, исхудание уменьшение( энергии и т. п.) упадок( сил и т. п.) пустыня пустынное пространство — a * of waters пустыня моря;
    морской простор пустошь, пустынь;
    бросовая земля( юридическое) бесхозная земля( горное) пустая порода (геология) материал, уносимый потоком в море пустынный;
    незаселенный;
    невозделанный;
    непроизводительный, неплодородный;
    засушливый — to lie * быть неиспользованной /невозделанной, необработанной/ (о земле) — * life бесплодно прожитая жизнь — the * periods of history (образное) бедные событиями исторические периоды опустошенный — to lay * опустошать, разорять — to be * (американизм) (сленг) промотаться, сидеть без денег излишний, ненужный;
    напрасный — * stowage /tonnage/ (морское) неиспользованный тоннаж негодный;
    бракованный — * products отходы — * iron железный лом — * wood щепа, отходы древесины ( техническое) отработанный — * steam отработанный пар — * heat отработанное тепло расточать, растрачивать, непроизводительно расходовать, напрасно тратить ( деньги и т. п.) ;
    терять (время и т. п.) — to * words /breath/ говорить на ветер — to * one’s life прожигать /проводить бесцельно/ жизнь — his efforts were *d его усилия пропали даром — to be *d on /upon/ smb. остаться непонятым, непризнанным, не произвести впечатления на кого-л. — actor *d on provincial audiences актер, загубивший свой талант в провинциальных театрах — my joke was *d on him моя шутка до него не дошла — all advice will be *d on him давать ему советы бесполезно пропадать попусту;
    растрачиваться без пользы — turn the water off, don’t let it * закрой кран, чтобы вода зря не текла упускать — to * an opportunity упустить возможность опустошать;
    разорять;
    портить;
    разрушать — Roman legions *d their country римские легионы опустошили /разорили/ их страну (юридическое) портить арендованное имущество истощаться, иссякать, приходить к концу — his resources were rapidly wasting его ресурсы быстро иссякали изнурять, истощать — frame *d by disease тело, истощенное болезнью чахнуть, умирать (тж. * away) — to * away for lack of food (медленно) умирать с голоду( редкое) идти, течь( о времени) — the day *s день на исходе (американизм) (сленг) избить до полусмерти (американизм) (сленг) убить, уничтожить( человека) (спортивное) терять в весе;
    сгонять вес (тренировкой) > * not, want not (пословица) мотовство до нужды не доведет
    ~ портить;
    to be entirely wasteed стать полностью непригодным к употреблению
    construction ~ строительный мусор
    cotton ~ текст. обтирочный материал cotton ~ текст. угар
    dangerous ~ опасные отходы
    equitable ~ потери, распределяемые по справедливости
    food ~ пищевые отходы
    ~ изнурять;
    he was wasted by disease болезнь изнурила его
    ~ пустынный, незаселенный;
    невозделанный;
    опустошенный;
    waste land (или ground) пустырь, пустошь;
    to lay waste опустошать
    to lie ~ быть невозделанным( о земле)
    to ~ money бросать деньги на ветер;
    to waste words говорить на ветер;
    тратить слова попусту;
    my joke was wasted upon him он не понял моей шутки
    nuclear ~ радиоактивные отходы
    ~ излишняя трата;
    oil waste перерасход масла;
    to run (или to go) to waste быть потраченным попусту, = идти коту под хвост
    ~ излишняя трата;
    oil waste перерасход масла;
    to run (или to go) to waste быть потраченным попусту, = идти коту под хвост
    storage ~ отходы при хранении
    waste безвозвратные потери в процессе производства ~ бесхозная земля ~ бракованный ~ излишняя трата;
    oil waste перерасход масла;
    to run (или to go) to waste быть потраченным попусту, = идти коту под хвост ~ излишняя трата ~ износ ~ изнурять;
    he was wasted by disease болезнь изнурила его ~ лишний, ненужный;
    waste effort напрасное усилие;
    waste products отходы;
    waste paper макулатура ~ невозделанный ~ негодный, бракованный ~ незаселенный ~ ненужный ~ опустошать ~ отбросы, отходы, угар, обрезки, лом ~ отбросы, отходы ~ тех. отработанный;
    waste steam отработанный пар ~ отработанный ~ портить;
    to be entirely wasteed стать полностью непригодным к употреблению ~ портить ~ портить чужое имущество ~ потери;
    убыль, ущерб, убыток, порча ~ потери;
    убыль, ущерб, убыток, порча ~ потери ~ горн. пустая порода ~ пустынный, незаселенный;
    невозделанный;
    опустошенный;
    waste land (или ground) пустырь, пустошь;
    to lay waste опустошать ~ пустынный ~ пустыня ~ юр. разорение, порча;
    небрежное отношение (особ. арендатора к чужому имуществу) ~ разорение, порча;
    небрежное отношение (особ. арендатора к чужому имуществу) ~ разорять ~ расточать (деньги, энергию и т. п.) ;
    терять (время) ;
    тратить впустую ~ расточительство ~ растрачивание ~ растрачивать ~ убыль ~ убыток ~ чахнуть;
    истощаться, приходить к концу (тж. waste away)
    ~ лишний, ненужный;
    waste effort напрасное усилие;
    waste products отходы;
    waste paper макулатура
    to ~ money бросать деньги на ветер;
    to waste words говорить на ветер;
    тратить слова попусту;
    my joke was wasted upon him он не понял моей шутки
    ~ of money пустая трата денег
    ~ of resources разбазаривание ресурсов
    ~ of time пустая трата времени
    ~ лишний, ненужный;
    waste effort напрасное усилие;
    waste products отходы;
    waste paper макулатура
    ~ лишний, ненужный;
    waste effort напрасное усилие;
    waste products отходы;
    waste paper макулатура
    ~ тех. отработанный;
    waste steam отработанный пар
    to ~ money бросать деньги на ветер;
    to waste words говорить на ветер;
    тратить слова попусту;
    my joke was wasted upon him он не понял моей шутки

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > waste

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    waste

    1. [weıst]

    1. растрачивание, ненужная излишняя трата; расточительство

    what a waste of energy! — какая пустая /бессмысленная/ трата сил!

    to go /to run/ to waste — а) тратиться непроизводительно; б) оставаться неиспользованным; в) идти в отходы

    2. 1) потери, убыль; ущерб, убыток

    2)

    повреждение, порча; небрежное отношение ()

    3. 1) отходы (

    waste products); обрезки, обрывки () выжимки

    2) концы, обтирочный материал

    thread /yarn/ waste — путанка, рвань пряжи

    4) металлический лом, скрап

    5)

    макулатура; лишние листы ()

    6) утиль

    7) мусор; отбросы

    4. 1) износ, изнашивание

    2) потеря веса, исхудание

    3) уменьшение (); упадок ()

    5. 1) пустыня

    2) пустынное пространство

    a waste of waters — пустыня моря; морской простор

    6. 1) пустошь, пустырь; бросовая земля

    8.

    материал, уносимый потоком в море

    2. [weıst]

    1. пустынный; незаселённый; невозделанный; непроизводительный, неплодородный; засушливый

    to lie waste — быть неиспользованной /невозделанной, необработанной/ ()

    2. опустошённый

    to lay waste — опустошать, разорять

    to be waste — сл. промотаться, сидеть без денег

    3. излишний, ненужный; напрасный

    waste stowage /tonnage/ — неиспользованный тоннаж

    4. негодный; бракованный

    waste wood — щепа, отходы древесины

    3. [weıst]

    1. 1) расточать, растрачивать, непроизводительно расходовать, напрасно тратить (); терять ()

    to waste words /breath/ — говорить на ветер

    to waste one’s life — прожигать /проводить бесцельно/ жизнь

    to be wasted on /upon/ smb. — остаться непонятым, непризнанным, не произвести впечатления на кого-л.

    actor wasted on provincial audiences — актёр, загубивший свой талант в провинциальных театрах

    2) пропадать попусту; растрачиваться без пользы

    turn the water off, don’t let it waste — закрой кран, чтобы вода зря не текла

    3) упускать

    2. 1) опустошать; разорять; портить; разрушать

    Roman legions wasted their country — римские легионы опустошили /разорили/ их страну

    2)

    портить арендованное имущество

    3. истощаться, иссякать, приходить к концу

    4. 1) изнурять, истощать

    frame wasted by disease — тело, истощённое болезнью

    2) чахнуть, умирать (

    waste away)

    1) избить до полусмерти

    7.

    терять в весе; сгонять вес ()

    waste not, want not — ≅ мотовство до нужды доведёт

    НБАРС > waste

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    waste

    1. I

    1) the invalid is wasting больней и т.д. слабеет /теряет силы/; the resources of the country are wasting ресурсы страны иссякают; his fortune is wasting его богатство тает; the day is wasting день кончается /подходит к концу/; the might of England is wasting Англия теряет свою былую мощь

    2) the energy is wasting энергия расходуется зря; turn the water off, don’t let it waste закрой воду, пусть зря не течет; I have no time to waste у меня нет лишнего времени, я не могу тратить время зря

    2. III

    waste smth.

    1) waste money транжирить деньги; waste words /one’s breath/ говорить впустую; waste one’s time попусту /даром/ терять время; waste one’s life бесполезно прожить /растратить/ свою жизнь ; waste an opportunity упускать возможность ; don’t waste your energy не тратьте /не расходуйте/ понапрасну силы и т.д.; do not waste anything ничего не должно пропадать зря; it is wrong to waste food нельзя выбрасывать пищу

    2) waste a country опустошать /разорять/ страну и т.д.; disease wastes the body болезнь изнуряет тело; wars waste strength войны истощают силы; the waves waste the rock волны подтачивают /подмывают/ скалы и т.д.

    3. IV

    waste smth. in some manner waste smth. ruthlessly безжалостно и т.д. растрачивать что-л.

    4. VII

    5. VIII

    waste time doing smth. he wastes a lot of time talking он теряет массу времени на разговоры и т.д.

    6. XI

    1) be wasted all his efforts are wasted все его усилия и т.д. пропадают даром /напрасны/; be wasted somewhere nothing is wasted here здесь ничего не пропадает; he is simply wasted in that job на этой работе он не может проявить свой талант; be wasted by smth. our schoolboys’ time is wasted by our old fashioned system of teaching foreign languages время школьников растрачивается впустую из-за устарелой системы преподавания иностранного языка; be wasted on smb. my joke was wasted on him моя шутка и т.д. не произвела на него впечатления /до него не дошла/; all my advice was wasted on her она не прислушалась к моим советам; this present will be wasted on him он не оценит этого подарка

    2) be wasted by smth. be wasted by a long war быть разоренным /опустошенным/ длительной войной и т.д.; the patient was wasted by a long illness больной и т.д. истощен длительной болезнью и т.д.; be wasted into smth. he is wasted into a shadow [он так истощен, что] от него осталась только тень

    7. XXI1

    waste smth. on smb., smth. waste money on amusements тратить /растрачивать, транжирить/ деньги на развлечения и т.д.; waste time on things that have no importance терять /тратить/ попусту время на вещи, которые не имеют значения и т.д.; I will not waste words on such a fool я не буду попусту тратить слова на такого дурака; I have no time to waste on him у меня нет времени и т.д. на него; he has no time to waste on your complaints у него нет времени разбирать твои жалобы; many a day does he waste over those useless schemes немало дней тратит он на эти бессмысленные планы /прожекты/

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Источник

Other forms: wasted; wasting; wastes

If waste is useless, then to waste is to fritter away. Don’t waste time putting your waste paper in the waste basket, just chuck it in the recycling bin.

As a noun, waste, meaning “desolate regions” stems from the Old English westen, meaning “a desert, wilderness.” Later, it came to imply a “useless activity,” and even later than that, “refuse matter,” or “trash.” As a verb, waste “devastate, ruin,” comes from the Latin vastare, “to lay waste.” It later adopted the sense of “spend or consume uselessly.” It can also mean “to kill.” The poet E. E. Cummings said, “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”

Definitions of waste

  1. verb

    use inefficiently or inappropriately

    “waste heat”

    “waste a joke on an unappreciative audience”

  2. verb

    spend thoughtlessly; throw away

    “He
    wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends”

    synonyms:

    blow, squander

    blow

    spend lavishly or wastefully on

  3. “waste not, want not”

    synonyms:

    consume, squander, ware

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    dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, shoot

    spend frivolously and unwisely

    luxuriate, wanton

    become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously

    lavish, shower

    expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns

    overspend

    spend at a high rate

    fling, splurge

    indulge oneself

    type of:

    drop, expend, spend

    pay out

  4. noun

    the trait of wasting resources

  5. noun

    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”

    synonyms:

    waste material, waste matter, waste product

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    dross, impurity

    worthless or dangerous material that should be removed

    exhaust, exhaust fumes, fumes

    gases ejected from an engine as waste products

    body waste, excrement, excreta, excretion, excretory product

    waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body

    crud, filth, skank

    any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant

    sewage, sewerage

    waste matter carried away in sewers or drains

    effluent, sewer water, wastewater

    water mixed with waste matter

    food waste, garbage, refuse, scraps

    food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

    pollutant

    waste matter that contaminates the water or air or soil

    garbage, refuse, rubbish, scrap, trash

    worthless material that is to be disposed of

    slop

    (usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand

    toxic industrial waste, toxic waste

    poisonous waste materials; can cause injury (especially by chemical means)

    DDT, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane

    an insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans; banned in the United States since 1972

    CFC, chlorofluorocarbon

    a fluorocarbon with chlorine; formerly used as a refrigerant and as a propellant in aerosol cans

    halon

    a compound in which the hydrogen atoms of a hydrocarbon have been replaced by bromine and other halogen atoms; very stable; used in fire extinguishers although it is thought to release bromine that depletes the ozone layer

    nitrogen oxide

    any of several oxides of nitrogen formed by the action of nitric acid on oxidizable materials; present in car exhausts

    BM, dejection, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, ordure, stool

    solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

    fecula

    excreta (especially of insects)

    wormcast

    cylindrical mass of earth voided by a burrowing earthworm or lugworm

    human waste

    the body wastes of human beings

    urine, water

    liquid excretory product

    barf, puke, vomit, vomitus

    the matter ejected in vomiting

    scrap metal

    discarded metal suitable for reprocessing

    debris, detritus, dust, junk, rubble

    the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up

    litter

    rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)

    guano

    the excrement of sea birds or bats; used as fertilizer

    sulfur dioxide, sulphur dioxide

    a colorless toxic gas (SO2) that occurs in the gases from volcanoes; used in many manufacturing processes and present in industrial emissions; causes acid rain

    type of:

    material, stuff

    the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object

  6. noun

    useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly

    “if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a
    waste”

    synonyms:

    dissipation, wastefulness

  7. noun

    (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect

  8. “We
    waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer”

    see moresee less

    type of:

    cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, dispose, fling, put away, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out

    throw or cast away

  9. “The water
    wastes back into the ocean”

    synonyms:

    run off

  10. verb

    lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief

  11. verb

    become physically weaker

    “Political prisoners are
    wasting away in many prisons all over the world”

    synonyms:

    rot

  12. verb

    cause to grow thin or weak

  13. verb

    cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

  14. verb

    get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing

  15. noun

    an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation

    “the trackless
    wastes of the desert”

    synonyms:

    barren, wasteland

  16. adjective

    located in a dismal or remote area; desolate

    “waste places”

    synonyms:

    godforsaken, wild

    inhospitable

    unfavorable to life or growth

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Источник

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • enPR: wāst, IPA(key): /weɪst/
  • Rhymes: -eɪst
  • Homophone: waist

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English wast, waste (“a waste”, noun), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wast, waste (“a waste”), from Frankish *wōstī (“a waste”), from Proto-Germanic *wōstaz[1], *wōstuz[2], from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty, wasted”).

Noun[edit]

waste (countable and uncountable, plural wastes)

  1. Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
  2. Excrement or urine.

    The cage was littered with animal waste.

  3. A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
  4. A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
  5. A large tract of uncultivated land.
  6. (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
  7. A vast expanse of water.
  8. A disused mine or part of one.
  9. The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.

    That was a waste of time!

    Her life seemed a waste.

    • 2023 March 22, Mike Esbester, “Staff, the public and industry will suffer”, in RAIL, number 979, page 39:

      ‘Rebel railwaymen’ at Birmingham New Street refused to wear the new uniforms on the grounds that they were a «complete waste of public money».

  10. Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
  11. Gradual loss or decay.
  12. A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
  13. (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see «to lay waste».
  14. (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.
  15. (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
Derived terms[edit]
  • affirmative waste
  • ameliorative waste
  • bulky waste
  • cotton waste
  • go to waste
  • industrial waste
  • nuclear waste
  • permissive waste
  • radioactive waste
  • rock waste
  • silk waste
  • toxic waste
  • trade waste
  • voluntary waste
  • waste of air
  • waste of oxygen
  • waste of space
  • waste of time
  • waste pipe
  • wasteful
  • wastefully
  • wastefulness
  • wasteless
  • wastey
Descendants[edit]
  • → Wu: 違司／违司 (we⁶-sy¹)
Translations[edit]

useless by-products, garbage

  • Azerbaijani: tullantı
  • Bulgarian: отпадък (bg) m (otpadǎk)
  • Czech: odpad (cs) m
  • Danish: affald (da) n
  • Dutch: afval (nl), rommel (nl), vuil (nl)
  • Esperanto: rubo
  • Finnish: jäte (fi)
  • French: (please verify) ordures (fr) f pl, (please verify) déchets (fr) m pl
  • German: Müll (de) m, Abfall (de) m, Ausschuss (de) m
  • Greek: απόρριμμα (el) n (apórrimma), σκουπίδι (el) n (skoupídi)
  • Hebrew: אבטלה‎ (he) f (avtalah)
  • Hungarian: hulladék (hu)
  • Irish: dríodar m
  • Italian: rifiuto (it) m, scarto (it) m, immondizia (it) f (garbage)
  • Japanese: ゴミ (ja) (gomi)
  • Kurdish:
    Northern Kurdish: paşmayî (ku) f
  • Latin: eiectamenta n pl
  • Latvian: atkritumi m pl
  • Luxembourgish: Offall (lb) m, Dreck m
  • Malayalam: മാലിന്യം (ml) (mālinyaṃ)
  • Maori: karaweta, paraweta, paranga, weta
  • Middle English: wast
  • Nepali: फोहोर (phohor), फोहर (phohar), कचरा (kacarā), कचर (ne) (kacar)
  • Plautdietsch: Aufgank m
  • Polish: śmieci pl
  • Portuguese: lixo (pt) m, refugo (pt) m, dejeto (pt) m
  • Romanian: deșeu (ro) n, gunoi (ro) n, rest (ro) n
  • Russian: отбро́сы (ru) m pl (otbrósy)
  • Scottish Gaelic: call m, sgudal m
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Roman: otpad (sh), smeće
  • Spanish: desperdicio (es) m, desecho (es) m, desechos (es) m pl, basura (es) f
  • Swedish: skräp (sv), avfall (sv)
  • Tagalog: basura
  • Telugu: చెత్త (te) (cetta)
  • Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
  • Ukrainian: відхо́ди m pl (vidxódy), уті́ль (utílʹ), сміття́ n (smittjá)

excrement or urine

  • Finnish: jätös (fi)
  • French: (please verify) fèces (fr), (please verify) merde (fr) f
  • German: Exkrement (de) n
  • Hungarian: ürülék (hu)
  • Ido: exkremento (io)
  • Italian: escremento (it) m
  • Japanese: 糞 (ja) (fun)
  • Korean: 배설물 (ko) (baeseolmul)
  • Portuguese: fezes (pt) f pl, excremento (pt) m
  • Romanian: excrement (ro) n
  • Spanish: excremento (es) m, heces (es) f pl
  • Swedish: avföring (sv)
  • Tagalog: tae (tl), dumi

waste land, desolate region

  • Bulgarian: пу́стош (bg) f (pústoš)
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 荒地 (zh) (huāngdì)
  • Danish: ødemark
  • Dutch: woestenij (nl)
  • Finnish: joutomaa (fi); erämaa (fi) (wilderness), autiomaa (fi) (desert)
  • French: terrain vague (fr) m, terre en friche f, stérile (fr) m
  • Galician: deserto (gl) m
  • German: Einöde (de) f
  • Hungarian: pusztaság (hu), puszta (hu), sivatag (hu)
  • Italian: landa (it)
  • Japanese: 荒れ地 (arechi)
  • Maori: tuakau
  • Middle English: wast
  • Portuguese: deserto (pt) m, ermo (pt) m
  • Romanian: deșert (ro) n, pustietate (ro) f
  • Russian: пу́стошь (ru) f (pústošʹ)
  • Sanskrit: मरु (sa) m (maru)
  • Spanish: baldío m, terreno baldío m, descampado (es) m, yermo (es) m, páramo (es) m, erial (es) m, andurrial m
  • Swedish: ödemark (sv)
  • Tagalog: desyerto, ulila
  • Welsh: diffeithdir m

place that has been laid waste

  • Finnish: tuhoalue
  • Ottoman Turkish: خراب‎ (harab)

large tract of uncultivated land

historical: unused part of the land of a manor

action of wasting, ineffective use

  • Azerbaijani: israf, israfçılıq, bədxərclik, nahaq yerə sərf etmə, əbəs yerə sərf edilmə
  • Bulgarian: загуба (bg) f (zaguba), прахосване (bg) n (prahosvane)
  • Catalan: malbaratament (ca) m, pèrdua (ca) f
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 浪費／浪费 (zh) (làngfèi)
  • Danish: spild n
  • Dutch: verkwisting (nl), verspilling (nl)
  • Finnish: tuhlaus
  • French: gaspillage (fr) m
  • German: Verschwendung (de) f, Vergeudung f
  • Hebrew: אבטלה‎ (he) f (avtalah)
  • Hungarian: pazarlás (hu), pocsékolás
  • Ido: eceso (io)
  • Irish: vásta m
  • Italian: spreco (it) m, sciupio (it) m, scialacquio (it) m, scialo (it) m, dispendio (it) m
  • Japanese: 無駄 (ja) (むだ, muda), 無駄使い (むだづかい, muda-zukai), 浪費 (ja) (ろうひ, rōhi)
  • Korean: 낭비 (ko) (nangbi) (South Korea), 랑비 (ko) (rangbi) (North Korea)
  • Luxembourgish: Verschwendung f
  • Middle English: wast
  • Portuguese: desperdício (pt) m
  • Romanian: irosire (ro) f, pierdere (ro) f
  • Russian: растра́та (ru) f (rastráta), тра́та (ru) f (tráta)
  • Scottish Gaelic: call m, ana-caitheamh m, cosg m
  • Spanish: desperdicio (es) m, derroche (es) m, pérdida (es) f
  • Swedish: spill (sv), slöseri (sv) n
  • Tagalog: aksaya (tl), sayang (tl)

large abundance of something

decaying of the body by disease — See also translations at atrophy

  • Finnish: atropia

destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disaster

  • Finnish: tuho (fi)
  • Middle English: wast

legal: cause of action against degrading the value or character of a property

geology: material derived by erosion and carried to the sea

Adjective[edit]

waste (comparative more waste, superlative most waste)

  1. (MTE, slang, derogatory) Useless and contemptible.

    • 2017 March 18, “Free Smoke”, in More Life, performed by Drake:

      Niggas moves so waste / Please, come outside the house and show yourself / So I can say it to your face

    • 2022 September 22, “ONTARIO PLACE”, in BADMAN, performed by Bert Le Plug:

      Waste / Don’t talk to me / You’re so waste

Derived terms[edit]
  • wasteman
  • wasteyute

References[edit]

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*wōstaz”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 470
  2. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*wōstu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 593: “*ueh₂s-tu-”

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English wast, waste (“waste”, adjective), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wast (“waste”), from Frankish *wōstī (“waste, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty, wasted”). Cognate with Old High German wuosti, wuasti (“waste, empty”), German wüst, Old Saxon wōsti (“desolate”), Old English wēste (“waste, barren, desolate, empty”).

Adjective[edit]

waste (comparative more waste, superlative most waste)

  1. (now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited.

    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xvij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIII:

      SOo whanne syr Galahad was departed from the castel of maydens / he rode tyl he came to a waste forest / & there he mette with syre launcelot and syr Percyuale but they knewe hym not / for he was newe desguysed / Ryghte so syr launcelot his fader dressid his spere and brake it vpon syr Galahad

      (please add an English translation of this quote)
  2. Barren; desert.
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, page 255:
      For centuries the shrine at Mecca had been of merely local importance, far outshone by the Temple of the Jews in Jerusalem, whose cult Christians had in good measure renewed by their pilgrimage in honour of Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection, while leaving the actual site of the Jerusalem Temple dishonoured and waste.
  3. Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.

    • 2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist:

      Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.

  4. Superfluous; needless.
  5. Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
  6. Unfortunate; disappointing. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Usage notes[edit]

Same meanings as wasted.

Derived terms[edit]
  • lay waste
  • lie waste
  • nonwasted
  • nonwasting
  • unwasted
  • waste water, wastewater
  • wasteland
  • wasteness
Translations[edit]

barren

  • Bulgarian: пустинен (bg) (pustinen), необработен (bg) (neobraboten)
  • Dutch: woest (nl), braakliggend (nl)
  • Finnish: karu (fi)
  • German: wüst (de), öde (de)
  • Hungarian: puszta (hu), kietlen (hu)
  • Ido: nekultivita (io)
  • Italian: incolto (it), deserto (it), arido (it)
  • Japanese: 荒れた (areta)
  • Middle English: wast
  • Romanian: deșert (ro), pustiu (ro), sterp (ro)
  • Scottish Gaelic: fàs
  • Swedish: öde (sv)
  • Tagalog: baog, tigang (tl), pagang
  • Ukrainian: пу́стка f (pústka)

excess

  • Bulgarian: негоден (bg) (negoden), бракуван (bg) (brakuvan)
  • Dutch: overtollig (nl)
  • Finnish: liiallinen (fi), liika-
  • German: überflüssig (de)
  • Italian: residuo (it), di scarto (it), di rifiuto (it)
  • Japanese: 無駄 (ja) (muda)
  • Middle English: wast
  • Romanian: prisos (ro)
  • Swedish: överflödig (sv)
  • Tagalog: sobra, labis (tl), higit, masyado

Etymology 3[edit]

From Middle English wasten (“to waste, lay waste”), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French waster (“to waste, devastate”) (compare also the variant gaster and French gâter from a related Old French word); the Anglo-Norman form waster was either from Frankish *wōstijan (“to waste”), from Proto-Indo-European *wāsto- (“empty, wasted”), or alternatively from Latin vastāre, present active infinitive of vastō and influenced by the Frankish; the English word was assisted by similarity to native Middle English westen («to waste»; > English weest). Cognate with Old High German wuostan, wuastan, wuostjan (“to waste”) (Modern German wüsten), Old English wēstan (“to lay waste, ravage”).

Verb[edit]

waste (third-person singular simple present wastes, present participle wasting, simple past and past participle wasted)

  2. (transitive) To devastate; to destroy.

    • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Ianuarie. Aegloga Prima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, →OCLC:

      Thou barrein ground, whome winters wrath hath wasted, / Art made a myrrour to behold my plight.

    • 1697, Virgil, “Aeneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

      The Tiber / Insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds.
  3. (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.

    • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vi], lines 812-13:

      I like this place,
      And willingly could waste my time in it.

    • 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
      Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, / And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

    • 2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):

      A “moving platform” scheme […] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. […] This set-up solves several problems […]. Stopping high-speed trains wastes energy and time, so why not simply slow them down enough for a moving platform to pull alongside?

    • 1909, Francis Galton, Memories of my life, page 69
      E. Kay (1822-1897), afterwards Lord Justice of Appeal, had rooms on the same staircase as myself, and we wasted a great deal of time together, both in term and in my second summer vacation. .

    We wasted millions of dollars and several years on that project.

  4. (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
  5. (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.

    • 1769, William Robertson, The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] W. and W. Strahan, for W[illiam] Strahan, T[homas] Cadell, […]; and J. Balfour, […], →OCLC:

      Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of age daily grew on him.

  6. (intransitive) To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
  7. (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
  8. (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.
Conjugation[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
  • (slang, to kill or murder): cack, top, duppy (see also Thesaurus:kill)
Derived terms[edit]
  • get wasted
  • wastage
  • waste breath
  • waste time
  • waster
  • wastery
  • wastethrift
  • wastewater
  • wastingly
  • wastrel
  • wasty
Translations[edit]
  • Asturian: españar
  • Bulgarian: развалям (bg) (razvaljam), опустошавам (bg) (opustošavam)
  • Catalan: destruir (ca)
  • Dutch: verwoesten (nl)
  • Estonian: raiskama (et)
  • Finnish: tuhota (fi)
  • French: détruire (fr), dévaster (fr)
  • German: verwüsten (de)
  • Italian: distruggere (it), devastare (it)
  • Japanese: 潰す (ja) (tsubusu)
  • Latgalian: sajaukt, izgubeit
  • Latvian: izpostīt, izputināt
  • Middle English: wasten
  • Portuguese: destruir (pt), devastar (pt)
  • Romanian: distruge (ro), devasta (ro)
  • Russian: разрушать (ru) (razrušatʹ), разорять (ru) (razorjatʹ), опустошать (ru) (opustošatʹ)
  • Swedish: ödelägga (sv), föröda (sv)
  • Tagalog: sirain, wasakin, gibain, puksain, lipulin, pinsalain, buwagin, iwalat, gunawing, pagtalikupan, ilugso, matupok, ilagpag, tibagin (tl), iguho, lumansag, paguhuin
  • Ukrainian: спусто́шувати (spustóšuvaty)

to decay

  • Bulgarian: износвам (bg) (iznosvam)
  • Dutch: (please verify) doen wegkwijnen
  • Finnish: hukata (fi), tuhlata (fi)
  • German: verfallen (de)
  • Italian: indebolire (it), debilitare (it)
  • Latvian: vārgt, nīkt (lv)
  • Middle English: wasten
  • Romanian: decădea (ro)
  • Russian: тратить (ru) (tratitʹ), расходовать (ru) (rasxodovatʹ), изнашиваться (ru) (iznašivatʹsja)
  • Swedish: förfalla (sv)
  • Tagalog: mabulok, bukbukin, manghina
  • Ukrainian: витрача́ти (vytračáty), зно́шуватися (znóšuvatysja)

to squander

  • Bulgarian: прахосвам (bg) (prahosvam), пилея (bg) (pileja)
  • Catalan: malgastar (ca), malbaratar (ca)
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 浪費／浪费 (zh) (làngfèi), 白費／白费 (zh) (báifèi)
  • Dutch: verspillen (nl), verkwisten (nl), vermorsen (nl), verdoen (nl), verklungelen (nl)
  • Esperanto: malŝpari
  • Finnish: hukata (fi), tuhlata (fi)
  • French: gaspiller (fr), gâcher (fr), perdre (fr)
  • German: verschwenden (de)
  • Gothic: 𐌳𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌷𐌾𐌰𐌽 (distahjan)
  • Hungarian: pazarol (hu), elveszteget (hu)
  • Irish: meath
  • Italian: sperperare (it), sprecare (it)
  • Japanese: 無駄にする (muda ni suru), ふいにする (fui ni suru)
  • Khmer: ខ្ជះខ្ជាយ (km) (khcĕəh khciəy)
  • Korean: 낭비하다 (ko) (nangbihada)
  • Lao: ຜານ (phān)
  • Latin: prōdigō
  • Latvian: izšķiest
  • Maori: maumau, tōtōa
  • Middle English: wasten
  • Ngazidja Comorian: ulatsa
  • Old English: forspillan
  • Oromo: baraaxuu
  • Polish: marnować (pl)
  • Portuguese: desperdiçar (pt)
  • Romanian: irosi (ro), pierde (ro), risipi (ro)
  • Russian: тра́тить (ru) impf (trátitʹ), транжи́рить (ru) impf (tranžíritʹ), расточа́ть (ru) impf (rastočátʹ)
  • Spanish: malgastar (es), desperdiciar (es)
  • Swedish: förspilla (sv), förslösa (sv), slösa (sv)
  • Tagalog: sayangin, maglustay, iwaldas, aksayahin, mag-aksaya
  • Telugu: వృధా చేయు (vr̥dhā cēyu) (vRdhaa chEyu)
  • Thai: เสีย (th) (sǐia), เสียเปล่า, ผลาญ (th) (plǎan)
  • Turkish: harcamak (tr)
  • Ukrainian: витрача́ти (vytračáty), тра́тити (trátyty), марнотра́тити (marnotrátyty)
  • Walloon: furler (wa), kischirer (wa)

slang: to kill

  • Bulgarian: убивам (bg) (ubivam)
  • Dutch: koud maken (nl)
  • Finnish: listiä (fi)
  • French: tuer (fr)
  • German: töten (de)
  • Italian: uccidere (it), ammazzare (it), fare fuori
  • Middle English: wasten
  • Portuguese: matar (pt)
  • Romanian: ucide (ro), omorî (ro)
  • Russian: гро́хать (ru) impf (gróxatʹ), гро́хнуть (ru) pf (gróxnutʹ), укоко́шить (ru) pf (ukokóšitʹ), ко́кнуть (ru) pf (kóknutʹ), замочи́ть (ru) pf (zamočítʹ)
  • Swedish: spilla (sv), förspilla (sv)
  • Tagalog: patayin, puksain, kitilin, likidahin, ligpitin

Translations to be checked

See also[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

  • Sweat, Weast, awest, swate, sweat, tawse, wetas

Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋɑs.tə/

Verb[edit]

waste

  1. singular past indicative and subjunctive of wassen

Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Adjective[edit]

waste

  1. Alternative form of wast (“waste (adjective)”)
  2. Inflection of wast (“waste (adjective)”):
    1. weak singular
    2. strong/weak plural

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

waste

  1. Alternative form of wast (“waste (noun)”)

Etymology 3[edit]

Adjective[edit]

waste

  1. Alternative form of wast (“waist”)

Etymology 4[edit]

Verb[edit]

waste

  1. Alternative form of wast (verb form)

Etymology 5[edit]

Verb[edit]

waste

  1. Alternative form of wasten

Tocharian B[edit]

Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun[edit]

waste ?

  1. refuge, sanctuary

West Flemish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Noun derived from the verb wassen (“to wash”)

Noun[edit]

waste f

  1. laundry, clothes that need to be washed, or just have been washed.
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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD WASTE

From Anglo-French waster, from Latin vastāre to lay waste, from vastus empty.

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PRONUNCIATION OF WASTE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WASTE

Waste is a verb and can also act as a noun and an adjective.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb waste in English.

WHAT DOES WASTE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

waste

Waste

Waste and wastes are terms for unwanted materials. Examples include municipal solid waste, hazardous waste, wastewater, radioactive waste, and others. The term is often subjective and sometimes objectively inaccurate. The terms can have various connotations, including pejorative tone or a squandering of potential. Litter refers to waste disposed of improperly.


Definition of waste in the English dictionary

The first definition of waste in the dictionary is to use, consume, or expend thoughtlessly, carelessly, or to no avail. Other definition of waste is to fail to take advantage of. Waste is also when intr, often foll by away to lose or cause to lose bodily strength, health, etc.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO WASTE

PRESENT

Present

I waste

you waste

he/she/it wastes

we waste

you waste

they waste

Present continuous

I am wasting

you are wasting

he/she/it is wasting

we are wasting

you are wasting

they are wasting

Present perfect

I have wasted

you have wasted

he/she/it has wasted

we have wasted

you have wasted

they have wasted

Present perfect continuous

I have been wasting

you have been wasting

he/she/it has been wasting

we have been wasting

you have been wasting

they have been wasting

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I wasted

you wasted

he/she/it wasted

we wasted

you wasted

they wasted

Past continuous

I was wasting

you were wasting

he/she/it was wasting

we were wasting

you were wasting

they were wasting

Past perfect

I had wasted

you had wasted

he/she/it had wasted

we had wasted

you had wasted

they had wasted

Past perfect continuous

I had been wasting

you had been wasting

he/she/it had been wasting

we had been wasting

you had been wasting

they had been wasting

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will waste

you will waste

he/she/it will waste

we will waste

you will waste

they will waste

Future continuous

I will be wasting

you will be wasting

he/she/it will be wasting

we will be wasting

you will be wasting

they will be wasting

Future perfect

I will have wasted

you will have wasted

he/she/it will have wasted

we will have wasted

you will have wasted

they will have wasted

Future perfect continuous

I will have been wasting

you will have been wasting

he/she/it will have been wasting

we will have been wasting

you will have been wasting

they will have been wasting

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would waste

you would waste

he/she/it would waste

we would waste

you would waste

they would waste

Conditional continuous

I would be wasting

you would be wasting

he/she/it would be wasting

we would be wasting

you would be wasting

they would be wasting

Conditional perfect

I would have waste

you would have waste

he/she/it would have waste

we would have waste

you would have waste

they would have waste

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been wasting

you would have been wasting

he/she/it would have been wasting

we would have been wasting

you would have been wasting

they would have been wasting

Conditional or «future-in-the-past» tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you waste
we let´s waste
you waste

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Present Participle

wasting

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WASTE

Synonyms and antonyms of waste in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS OF «WASTE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «waste» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «waste» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WASTE

Find out the translation of waste to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of waste from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «waste» in English.

Translator English — Chinese


浪费

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English — Spanish


desperdicio

570 millions of speakers

English


waste

510 millions of speakers

Translator English — Hindi


बेकार

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WASTE»

The term «waste» is very widely used and occupies the 4.175 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about waste

10 QUOTES WITH «WASTE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word waste.

If you’re going to kill someone there isn’t much reason to get all worked up about it and angry — you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.

Most Americans recognize that whatever the government program is, no matter how essential it is, it’s waste.

More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation… and we can’t waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren’t up for an awesome responsibility.

A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial.

I waste most of the day, then finally start to write around 3 P.M., totally disgusted with myself for my wasteful nature.

There are five known gyres spinning around in our world’s oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents. A spinning soup, so to speak, is made of what exists in the water. And in this case, the gyres are spinning with millions of tons of our discarded and forgotten about plastic waste!

I can really waste a lot of time on the Internet.

Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!

Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.

The best advice is to get on with it. I’m very prone to falling into depressions — not clinical, just ‘can’t be bothered.’ It’s such a waste of time.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WASTE»

Discover the use of waste in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to waste and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The record of a brilliant and subtle mind in action, The Waste Books are above all a powerful testament to the necessity, and pleasure, of unfettered thought.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1990

2

Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal

Introducing us to foraging pigs, potato farmers and food industry CEOs, Stuart encounters grotesque examples of profligacy, but also inspiring innovations and ways of making the most of what we have.

3

Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life …

In Zero Waste Home, Bea Johnson shares the story of how she simplified her life by reducing her waste.

Precisely and exquisitely detailed, WASTE is a stark little masterpiece.» And Dawn Raffel writes, «[P]itch-perfect. WASTE wastes nothing—not a syllable, a beat, a ragged breath.

5

Waste: A Handbook for Management

The book examines a wide range of waste streams, including: Household waste (compostable material, paper, glass, textiles, household chemicals, plastic, water, and e-waste) Industrial waste (metals, building materials, tires, medical, …

Trevor Letcher, Daniel Vallero, 2011

6

Waste, Recycling and Reuse

Waste problem — Dealing with waste — Glass — Metals — Plastic, textiles and paper — Cars and e-waste — Waste and the developing world — Organic waste — Looking to the future.

7

An Introduction to Nuclear Waste Immobilisation

The book thoroughly covers all issues surrounding nuclear waste: from where to locate nuclear waste in the environment, through nuclear waste generation and sources, treatment schemes and technologies, immobilisation technologies and waste …

M. I. Ojovan, W. E. Lee, William E. Lee, 2010

8

Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash

An exploration of the importance of trash in American social history describes the virtual nonexistence of trash before the twentieth century during a time when every scrap had a use and discusses the rise of the culture of disposability …

9

Waste Management Practices: Municipal, Hazardous, and Industrial

The first section of the book provides an overview of the historical and regulatory development of waste management.

10

A Total Waste of Makeup

A page-turner from start to finish, A Total Waste of Makeup puts a fresh face on women’s fiction.

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WASTE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term waste is used in the context of the following news items.

France is cracking down on food waste

France is cracking down on food waste with a new law banning big supermarkets from destroying unsold food or face fines and even jail sentences. Under a bill … «Business Insider, May 15»

Panel approves underground nuclear waste facility near Lake Huron

An aerial view of the Bruce Power generating station. A Canadian advisory panel has endorsed a fiercely debated plan to bury waste from this plant, and others … «The Macomb Daily, May 15»

New York City To Reduce Waste By 90% By 2030 With New Waste …

New York City is set to announce an ambitious new environmental plan on Earth Day that calls for the United States’ largest city to slash its waste output by 90 … «International Business Times, Apr 15»

Eyeing Yucca Mountain for nuclear waste dump, again

Several members of Congress are heading to the mothballed site of a proposed radioactive waste dump in the Nevada desert amid new talk about a … «CBS News, Apr 15»

Official Report: Nuclear Waste Accident Caused By Wrong Cat Litter

A yearlong investigation by government scientists has concluded that a major accident at a nuclear waste dump was caused by the wrong brand of cat litter. «NPR, Mar 15»

Man Arrested For Medical Waste Theft Person Of Interest In …

While deputies were on the water, the sheriff was interviewing Gibson, a Ralston resident who was arrested on Tuesday for stealing medical waste from St. John. «News On 6, Mar 15»

Study Finds Rising Levels of Plastics in Oceans

Some eight million metric tons of plastic waste makes its way into the world’s oceans each year, and the amount of the debris is likely to increase greatly over the … «New York Times, Feb 15»

EPA Will Not Declare Coal Ash A Hazardous Waste

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy assured reporters on Friday that designating coal ash as solid waste, rather than hazardous waste, would be sufficient to … «ThinkProgress, Dec 14»

Dozens Treated After California Waste Plant Fire

A mysterious chemical mixture burst into flames at a Ventura County waste facility on Tuesday, sending dozens to hospitals for decontamination and emptying … «NBC Southern California, Nov 14»

How Did The Government Waste Your Tax Dollars In 2014 …

The federal government expects to collect nearly $2.8 trillion in individual, corporate, payroll, estate and gift taxes in 2014. This number is considerably higher … «Forbes, Oct 14»

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verb (used with object), wast·ed, wast·ing.

to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.

to fail or neglect to use: to waste an opportunity.

to destroy or consume gradually; wear away: The waves waste the rock of the shore.

to wear down or reduce in bodily substance, health, or strength; emaciate; enfeeble: to be wasted by disease or hunger.

to destroy, devastate, or ruin: a country wasted by a long and futile war.

Slang. to kill or murder.

verb (used without object), wast·ed, wast·ing.

to be consumed, spent, or employed uselessly or without giving full value or being fully utilized or appreciated.

to become gradually consumed, used up, or worn away: A candle wastes in burning.

to become physically worn; lose flesh or strength; become emaciated or enfeebled.

to diminish gradually; dwindle, as wealth, power, etc.: The might of England is wasting.

to pass gradually, as time.

noun

useless consumption or expenditure; use without adequate return; an act or instance of wasting: The project was a waste of material, money, time, and energy.

neglect, instead of use: waste of opportunity.

gradual destruction, impairment, or decay: the waste and repair of bodily tissue.

devastation or ruin, as from war or fire.

a region or place devastated or ruined: The forest fire left a blackened waste.

anything unused, unproductive, or not properly utilized.

an uncultivated tract of land.

a wild region or tract of land; desolate country, desert, or the like.

an empty, desolate, or dreary tract or extent: a waste of snow.

anything left over or superfluous, as excess material or by-products, not of use for the work in hand: a fortune made in salvaging factory wastes.

remnants, as from the working of cotton, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil, etc.

Physical Geography. material derived by mechanical and chemical disintegration of rock, as the detritus transported by streams, rivers, etc.

garbage; refuse.

adjective

not used or in use: waste energy; waste talents.

(of land, regions, etc.) wild, desolate, barren, or uninhabited; desert.

(of regions, towns, etc.) in a state of desolation and ruin, as from devastation or decay.

left over or superfluous: to utilize waste products of manufacture.

having served or fulfilled a purpose; no longer of use.

rejected as useless or worthless; refuse: to salvage waste products.

Physiology. pertaining to material unused by or unusable to the organism.

designed or used to receive, hold, or carry away excess, superfluous, used, or useless material (often in combination): a waste pipe; waste container.

Obsolete. excessive; needless.

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Idioms about waste

    go to waste, to fail to be used or consumed; be wasted: She hates to see good food go to waste.

    lay waste, to devastate; destroy; ruin: Forest fires lay waste thousands of acres yearly.

Origin of waste

1150–1200; 1960–65 for def. 6; (adj.) Middle English <Old North French wast (Old French g(u)ast) <Latin vāstus desolate; (v.) Middle English <Old North French waster (Old French g(u)aster) <Latin vāstāre, derivative of vāstus; (noun) Middle English <Old North French wast(e) (Old French g(u)aste), partly <Latin vāstum, noun use of neuter of vāstus, partly derivative of waster;Old North French w-,Old French gu- by influence of cognate with Frankish *wōsti desolate (cognate with Old High German wuosti)

OTHER WORDS FROM waste

wast·a·ble, adjectivewasteless, adjectiveoutwaste, verb (used with object), out·wast·ed, out·wast·ing.un·wast·a·ble, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH waste

waist, waste

Words nearby waste

Wasserstein, Wassily chair, wassup, wast, wastage, waste, waste away, wastebasket, wasted, waste disposal unit, wasteful

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Words related to waste

misuse, debris, rubbish, scrap, trash, blow, consume, deplete, dissipate, divert, drain, exhaust, lavish, lose, squander, undermine, reduce, spoil, decay, desolation

How to use waste in a sentence

  • A lot of time and energy is wasted among analysts in debating how exactly to characterize skewed maps that result from residential segregation.

  • Not surprisingly, the vast waste deposits produced during the Great Acceleration figure prominently in the search for a suitable stratigraphic section to place the GSSP that will mark the start of the Anthropocene.

  • Some of the ones my other friend got were round, which wastes space.

  • “If you don’t find out what the answer is, you’re kind of wasting your time,” he says.

  • You do not have to waste your time on the same project again and use it on another channel or place to reach your target audience quickly and easily.

  • When twelve people are killed by violence, whoever they are, for whatever reason, that is a tragedy and a waste.

  • First, though, he has to be shocked into recognizing the barren waste of his spiritual life – by spirits.

  • He said he watched waste haulers back up to the pit and unleash torrents of watery muck.

  • Kocurek became especially frustrated with a commercial waste facility in Jim Wells County.

  • They also used the powers of their separate agencies to cite waste haulers for spilling sludge along roadways.

  • It is the principal waste-product of metabolism, and constitutes about one-half of all the solids excreted—about 30 gm.

  • Then the croupier tears open two packets of new cards, flinging the old ones into a waste-paper basket at his side.

  • Don’t waste your valuable time looking for the biggest angleworm in the garden!

  • In a literal sense, too,” added Tom Brown, “for it will be sold as waste-paper and be made up into matches.

  • Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, it is silent: because the wall of Moab is destroyed in the night, it is silent.

British Dictionary definitions for waste

verb

(tr) to use, consume, or expend thoughtlessly, carelessly, or to no avail

(tr) to fail to take advantage ofto waste an opportunity

(when intr, often foll by away) to lose or cause to lose bodily strength, health, etc

to exhaust or become exhausted

(tr) to ravage

(tr) informal to murder or killI want that guy wasted by tomorrow

noun

the act of wasting or state of being wasted

a failure to take advantage of something

anything unused or not used to full advantage

anything or anyone rejected as useless, worthless, or in excess of what is required

garbage, rubbish, or trash

a land or region that is devastated or ruined

a land or region that is wild or uncultivated

physiol

  1. the useless products of metabolism
  2. indigestible food residue

disintegrated rock material resulting from erosion

law reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect, esp by a life-tenant

adjective

rejected as useless, unwanted, or worthless

produced in excess of what is required

not cultivated, inhabited, or productivewaste land

  1. of or denoting the useless products of metabolism
  2. of or denoting indigestible food residue

destroyed, devastated, or ruined

designed to contain or convey waste products

lay waste to devastate or destroy

Derived forms of waste

wastable, adjective

Word Origin for waste

C13: from Anglo-French waster, from Latin vastāre to lay waste, from vastus empty

Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Scientific definitions for waste

Noun

An unusable or unwanted substance or material, such as a waste product. See also hazardous waste landfill.

Verb

To lose or cause to lose energy, strength, weight, or vigor, as by the progressive effects of a disease such as metastatic cancer.

The American Heritage® Science Dictionary
Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Other Idioms and Phrases with waste

In addition to the idioms beginning with waste

  • waste away
  • waste not, want not
  • waste one’s breath

also see:

  • go to waste
  • haste makes waste
  • lay waste

The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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