| 单词 | waste |
| 释义 | waste (once / 85 pages) 1vn 2v 3v 4v 5nadj 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.” WORD FAMILYwaste: wastage, wasted, wasteful, waster, wastes, wasting+/wastage: wastages/wasteful: wastefully, wastefulness/waster: wasters/wasting: wastings USAGE EXAMPLESWasting no time, House and Senate Republicans are poised to mark the first day of the 115th Congress with resolutions condemning the U.N. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Every year, humans generate more than a billion tons of solid waste, and that number will be closer to 4 billion by 2100. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) He wasted no time in tackling his disease with fervor. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1v use inefficiently or inappropriately waste heat waste a joke on an unappreciative audience Hyper apply, employ, use, utilise, utilize put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose 2v spend thoughtlessly; throw away He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper blow, squander blow spend lavishly or wastefully on conserve, economise, economize, husband use cautiously and frugally burn spend (significant amounts of money) expend, use use up, consume fully 3v spend extravagantly waste not, want not Syn|Hypo|Hyper consume, squander, ware dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, shoot spend frivolously and unwisely luxuriate, wantonbecome extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously lavish, showerexpend profusely; also used with abstract nouns overspendspend at a high rate fling, splurgeindulge oneself drop, expend, spend pay out 4n the trait of wasting resources Syn|Hyper thriftlessness, wastefulness improvidence, shortsightedness a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources 5n 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 Syn|Hypo|Hyper waste material, waste matter, waste product dross, impurity worthless or dangerous material that should be removed exhaust, exhaust fumes, fumesgases ejected from an engine as waste products body waste, excrement, excreta, excretion, excretory productwaste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body crud, filth, skankany substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant sewage, seweragewaste matter carried away in sewers or drains effluent, sewer water, wastewaterwater mixed with waste matter food waste, garbage, refuse, scrapsfood that is discarded (as from a kitchen) pollutantwaste matter that contaminates the water or air or soil rubbish, scrap, trashworthless 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 wastepoisonous waste materials; can cause injury (especially by chemical means) DDT, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethanean insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans; banned in the United States since 1972 CFC, chlorofluorocarbona fluorocarbon with chlorine; formerly used as a refrigerant and as a propellant in aerosol cans halona 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 oxideany 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, stoolsolid excretory product evacuated from the bowels feculaexcreta (especially of insects) wormcastcylindrical mass of earth voided by a burrowing earthworm or lugworm human wastethe body wastes of human beings barf, puke, vomit, vomitusthe matter ejected in vomiting scrap metaldiscarded metal suitable for reprocessing debris, detritus, dust, junk, rubblethe remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up litterrubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places) guanothe excrement of sea birds; used as fertilizer sulfur dioxide, sulphur dioxidea colorless toxic gas (SO2) that occurs in the gases from volcanoes; used in many manufacturing processes and present in industrial emissions; causes acid rain material, stuff the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object 6n useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste Syn|Hypo|Hyper dissipation, wastefulness boondoggle work of little or no value done merely to look busy waste of effort, waste of energya useless effort waste of materiala useless consumption of material waste of moneymoney spent for inadequate return waste of timethe devotion of time to a useless activity extravagance, high life, highlife, lavishness, prodigalityexcessive spending squanderingspending resources lavishly and wastefully squandermaniaprodigious squandering (usually by a government) activity any specific behavior 7n (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect 2Syn|Hyper permissive waste act, deed, human action, human activity something that people do or cause to happen 1v get rid of We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer Hyper 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 2v run off as waste 3The water wastes back into the ocean Syn|Hyper run off course, feed, flow, run move along, of liquids 1v lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief Syn|Hyper languish, pine away weaken become weaker 2v become physically weaker Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world Syn|Hypo|Hyper rot gangrene, mortify, necrose, sphacelate undergo necrosis degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, drop grow worse 3v cause to grow thin or weak 4Syn|Hyper emaciate, macerate debilitate, drain, enfeeble make weak 1v cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly Syn|Hypo|Hyper desolate, devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge ruin reduce to ruins destroy, ruin destroy completely; damage irreparably 2v get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing 5Syn|Hyper do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralise, neutralize kill cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly 1n an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation the trackless wastes of the desert Syn|Hypo|Hyper barren, wasteland heath, heathland 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 2adj located in a dismal or remote area; desolate waste places Syn godforsaken, wild inhospitable unfavorable to life or growth |
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