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
verb: waste, 3rd person present: wastes, gerund or present participle: wasting, past tense: wasted, past participle: wasted
noun: waste, plural noun: wastes
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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? 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ expend on an unappreciative recipient her small talk was wasted on this guest
- ▪ fail to make full or good use of we're wasted in this job
- ▪ deliberately dispose of (surplus stock) 20% of stock will need to be wasted
- 2. (of a person or a part of the body) become progressively weaker and more emaciated she was visibly wasting away 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ archaic make progressively weaker and more emaciated these symptoms wasted the patients very much
- 3. literary devastate or ruin (a place) he seized their cattle and wasted their country
- ▪ North American informal kill or severely injure (someone) I saw them waste the guy I worked for 同義詞
- 4. literary (of time) pass away the years were wasting
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 同義詞 反義詞
- 2. (of an area of land, typically an urban one) not used, cultivated, or built on a patch of waste ground 同義詞 反義詞
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 同義詞
- ▪ archaic the gradual loss or diminution of something he was pale and weak from waste of blood
- 2. unwanted or unusable material, substances, or by-products nuclear waste hazardous industrial wastes 同義詞
- 3. a large area of barren, typically uninhabited land the icy wastes of the Antarctic 同義詞
- 4. damage to an estate caused by an act or by neglect, especially by a life tenant.
- used or expended carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose: wasted fuel a wasted opportunity
Oxford American Dictionary
- used or expended carelessly or to no purpose: wasted fuel a wasted opportunity
Oxford Dictionary
- talk in vain
Oxford American Dictionary
- talk in vain
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- a pipe carrying waste water, such as that from a sink, bath, or shower, to a drain.
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- radioactive waste material, for example from the use or reprocessing of nuclear fuel.
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- radioactive waste material, for example from the use or reprocessing of nuclear fuel.
Oxford American Dictionary
- unwanted organic material produced by gardening, such as grass cuttings and hedge clippings: garden waste will be collected separately
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- IPA[wāst]
美式
- 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?
- (of a material, substance, or byproduct) eliminated or discarded as no longer useful or ... ensure that waste materials are disposed of responsibly plants produce oxygen as a waste product
- 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
Oxford American Dictionary
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