| waste |
| 1. n. Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish. | |
| 2. n. Excrement or urine. | |
| The cage was littered with animal waste | |
| 3. n. A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert. | |
| 4. n. A place that has been laid waste or destroyed. | |
| 5. n. A large tract of uncultivated land. | |
| 6. n. (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land. | |
| 7. n. A vast expanse of water. | |
| 8. n. A disused mine or part of one. | |
| 9. n. The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use. | |
| That was a waste of time | |
| Her life seemed a waste | |
| 10. n. Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used. | |
| 11. n. Gradual loss or decay. | |
| 12. n. A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away. | |
| 13. n. (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste". | |
| 14. n. (legal) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or charact | |
| 15. n. (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea. | |
| 16. adj. (now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited. | |
| 17. adj. Barren; desert. | |
| 18. adj. Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess. | |
| 19. adj. Superfluous; needless. | |
| 20. adj. Dismal; gloomy; cheerless. | |
| 21. v. to devastate, destroy | |
| 22. v. To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly. | |
| We wasted millions of dollars and several years on that project. | |
| 23. v. (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder. | |
| 24. v. To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out. | |
| 25. v. (intransitive) Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail. | |
| 26. v. (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually. | |
| 27. v. (legal) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay. | |
| or |
| 1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
| In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
| He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
| 2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
| 3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
| 4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
| It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
| 5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
| The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
| 6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
| 7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
| 10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
| 11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
| impure |
| 1. adj. Not pure | |
| 2. adj. Containing undesired intermixtures | |
| The impure gemstone was not good enough to be made into a necklace, so it was thrown out. | |
| 3. adj. Unhallowed; defiled by something unholy, either physically by an objectionable substance, or morally by guilt or sin | |
| 4. adj. Unchaste; obscene (not according to or not abiding by some system of sexual morality) | |
| He was thinking impure thoughts involving a girl from school. | |
| 5. v. (transitive, obsolete) to defile; to pollute | |
| matter |
| 1. n. Substance, material. | |
| 2. n. (physics) The basic structural component of the universe. Matter usually has mass and volume. | |
| 3. n. (physics) Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles. (Non-antimatter matter). | |
| 4. n. A kind of substance. | |
| vegetable matter | |
| 5. n. Written material (especially in books or magazines). | |
| printed matter; He always took some reading matter with him on the plane. | |
| 6. n. (philosophy) Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substa | |
| 7. n. A condition, subject or affair, especially one of concern. | |
| What's the matter?; state matters | |
| 8. n. An approximate amount or extent. | |
| I stayed for a matter of months. | |
| 9. n. (obsolete) The essence; the pith; the embodiment. | |
| 10. n. (obsolete) Inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing. | |
| 11. n. (dated) Pus. | |
| 12. v. (intransitive) To be important. | |
| The only thing that matters to Jim is being rich. | |
| Sorry for pouring ketchup on your clean white shirt! - Oh, don't worry, it does not matter. | |
| 13. v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects) To care about, to mind; to find important. | |
| 14. v. To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate. | |
