waste
- IPA[weɪst]
英式
- use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose；expend on an unappreciative recipient
- (of a material, substance, or by-product) eliminated or discarded as no longer useful or required after the completion of a process；(of an area of land, typically an urban one) not used, cultivated, or built on
- an act or instance of using or expending something carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose；the gradual loss or diminution of something
noun: waste, plural noun: wastes
verb: waste, 3rd person present: wastes, gerund or present participle: wasting, past tense: wasted, past participle: wasted
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- v.動詞
- 1. use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose:
we can't afford to waste electricity
I don't use the car, so why should I waste precious money on it?
- 2. expend on an unappreciative recipient:
her small talk was wasted on this guest
- 3. fail to make full or good use of:
we're wasted in this job
- 4. deliberately dispose of (surplus stock):
20% of stock will need to be wasted
- 5. (of a person or a part of the body) become progressively weaker and more emaciated:
she was visibly wasting away
- 6. make progressively weaker and more emaciated:
these symptoms wasted the patients very much
- 7. devastate or ruin (a place):
he seized their cattle and wasted their country
- 8. kill or severely injure (someone):
I saw them waste the guy I worked for
- 9. (of time) pass away:
the years were wasting
- adj.形容詞
- 1. (of a material, substance, or by-product) eliminated or discarded as no longer useful or required after the completion of a process:
ensure that waste materials are disposed of responsibly
plants produce oxygen as a waste product
- 2. (of an area of land, typically an urban one) not used, cultivated, or built on:
a patch of waste ground
- n.名詞
- 1. an act or instance of using or expending something carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose:
it's a waste of time trying to argue with him
they had learned to avoid waste
- 2. the gradual loss or diminution of something:
he was pale and weak from waste of blood
- 3. unwanted or unusable material, substances, or by-products:
nuclear waste
hazardous industrial wastes
- 4. a large area of barren, typically uninhabited land:
the icy wastes of the Antarctic
- 5. damage to an estate caused by an act or by neglect, especially by a life tenant.
adj. used or expended carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose:
wasted fuel
a wasted opportunity
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adj. used or expended carelessly or to no purpose:
wasted fuel
a wasted opportunity
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talk in vain
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talk in vain
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n. radioactive waste material, for example from the use or reprocessing of nuclear fuel.
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n. scraps of waste cotton yarn, used typically to clean machinery.
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n. a dustbin or rubbish bin.
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n. unwanted organic material produced by gardening, such as grass cuttings and hedge clippings:
garden waste will be collected separately
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- v.use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose:
- we can't afford to waste electricity
I don't use the car, so why should I waste precious money on it?
- adj.(of a material, substance, or byproduct) eliminated or discarded as no longer useful or required after the completion of a process:
- ensure that waste materials are disposed of responsibly
plants produce oxygen as a waste product
- n.an act or instance of using or expending something carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose:
- it's a waste of time trying to argue with him
they had learned to avoid waste
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