Found 1 hit - Term: waste gate, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
waste \waste\, a. oe. wast, of. wast, from l. vastus,
influenced by the kindred german word; cf. ohg. wuosti, g.
w"ust, os. w?sti, d. woest, as. w=este. cf. vast.
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1. desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary;
dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
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the dismal situation waste and wild. --milton.
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his heart became appalled as he gazed forward into
the waste darkness of futurity. --sir w.
scott.
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2. lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse;
rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.
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but his waste words returned to him in vain.
--spenser.
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not a waste or needless sound,
till we come to holier ground. --milton.
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ill day which made this beauty waste. --emerson.
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3. lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.
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and strangled with her waste fertility. --milton.
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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.
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see also:
vast waste gate waste paper paper waste pipe escape
waste steam waste trap
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