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WasteWaste Waste, a. [OE. wast, OF. wast, from L. vastus,
influenced by the kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosti, G.
w["u]st, OS. w?sti, D. woest, AS. w[=e]ste. Cf. Vast.]
1. Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary;
dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
The dismal situation waste and wild. --Milton.
His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into
the waste darkness of futurity. --Sir W.
Scott.
2. Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse;
rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.
But his waste words returned to him in vain.
--Spenser.
Not a waste or needless sound, Till we come to
holier ground. --Milton.
Ill day which made this beauty waste. --Emerson.
3. Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.
And strangled with her waste fertility. --Milton.
Waste gate, a gate by which the superfluous water of a
reservoir, or the like, is discharged.
Waste paper. See under Paper.
Waste pipe, a pipe for carrying off waste, or superfluous,
water or other fluids. Specifically:
(a) (Steam Boilers) An escape pipe. See under Escape.
(b) (Plumbing) The outlet pipe at the bottom of a bowl,
tub, sink, or the like.
Waste steam.
(a) Steam which escapes the air.
(b) Exhaust steam.
Waste trap, a trap for a waste pipe, as of a sink. Waste
Waste Waste, v. i.
1. To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength,
value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle;
to grow less.
The time wasteth night and day. --Chaucer.
The barrel of meal shall not waste. --1 Kings
xvii. 14.
But man dieth, and wasteth away. --Job xiv. 10.
2. (Sporting) To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; --
said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.
Waste
Waste Waste, n. (Phys. Geog.)
Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the
land, carried by streams to the sea.
Meaning of Wastes from wikipedia
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Control of
Transboundary Movements of
Hazardous Wastes and
Their Disposal of 1989, Art. 2(1), "'
Wastes' are
substance or objects,
which are
disposed of...
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Universal wastes are a
special category of
hazardous wastes that (in the U.S.)
generally pose a
lower threat relative to
other hazardous wastes, are ubiquitous...
- conservation.
Liquid waste is an
important category of
waste management because it is so
difficult to deal with.
Unlike solid wastes,
liquid wastes cannot be easily...
- such
waste, and this
process may
eventually come into
commercial use for
civil wastes (it is
currently being developed for U.S.
military wastes). Synroc...
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includes food
wastes,
market wastes, yard
wastes,
plastic containers and
product packaging materials, and
other miscellaneous solid wastes from residential...
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Agricultural wastes may
refer to:
Agricultural pollution,
byproducts of
farming practices that can
result in
degradation of
surrounding ecosystems Agricultural...
- is
eliminated from
organisms are
called nitrogenous wastes (/naɪˈtrɒdʒɪnəs/) or
nitrogen wastes. They are ammonia, urea, uric acid, and creatinine. All...
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wasting, also
known as
wasting syndrome,
refers to the
process by
which a
debilitating disease causes muscle and fat
tissue to "
waste" away.
Wasting is...
- Look up
wasted in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Wasted may
refer to:
Wasted:
Tales of a GenX Drunk, a 1997
memoir by Mark
Judge Wasted: A
Memoir of...
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Wastes and
renamed to
Biological Wastes in 1987,
before obtaining its
current title in 1991. It
covers all
areas concerning biom****,
biological waste...
