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spent uselessly

  • 1 هدر

    هَدَرَ: بُذّرَ، ضاعَ سُدىً
    to be spent uselessly, be made to no avail, be in vain

    Arabic-English new dictionary > هدر

  • 2 reiculus

    rēĭcŭlus ( rējĭcŭlus), a, um, adj. [reicio]; in econom. lang., that is to be rejected, refuse, useless, worthless.
    I.
    Lit.:

    oves,

    Cato, R. R. 2, 7; Varr. ap. Non. 168, 2 sq.; id. R. R. 2, 1, 24:

    vaccae,

    id. ib. 2, 5, 17:

    mancipia,

    Sen. Ep. 47.—
    * II.
    Trop.:

    dies,

    i. e. spent uselessly, lost, Sen. Brev. Vit. 7, 4; cf. id. Q. N. 7, 32.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > reiculus

  • 3 rejiculus

    rēĭcŭlus ( rējĭcŭlus), a, um, adj. [reicio]; in econom. lang., that is to be rejected, refuse, useless, worthless.
    I.
    Lit.:

    oves,

    Cato, R. R. 2, 7; Varr. ap. Non. 168, 2 sq.; id. R. R. 2, 1, 24:

    vaccae,

    id. ib. 2, 5, 17:

    mancipia,

    Sen. Ep. 47.—
    * II.
    Trop.:

    dies,

    i. e. spent uselessly, lost, Sen. Brev. Vit. 7, 4; cf. id. Q. N. 7, 32.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > rejiculus

  • 4 precipitado

    adj.
    1 precipitate, breakneck, sudden, hasty.
    2 abrupt.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: precipitar.
    * * *
    1→ link=precipitar precipitar
    1 (apresurado) hasty, rash
    * * *
    (f. - precipitada)
    adj.
    2) rash
    * * *
    1.
    ADJ [huida] headlong; [partida] hasty, sudden; [conducta] hasty, rash
    2.
    SM (Quím) precipitate
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo <decisión/actuación> hasty; < juicio> snap (before n)
    II
    masculino (Quím) precipitate
    * * *
    = abrupt, hurried, rushed, rash, hasty, untethered, precipitous, precipitate, precipitate.
    Ex. There were abrupt fluctuations in his output from one week to the next.
    Ex. Capital funding usually took the form of end-of-year 'windfalls' needing to be spent in hectic haste necessitating hurried decision making.
    Ex. Leforte could usually identify those footsteps easily; but today they sounded more rushed that what could normally be expected from the cataloging head.
    Ex. And some way down the list of benefits was a rash promise to 'slash the red tape that hinders our trade with Europe -- and thereby safeguard the 2 1/2 million jobs involved'.
    Ex. It seems to me that the deletion of that was maybe a little bit too hasty.
    Ex. 'Out of the secretarial world it comes, the prime example of the untethered query, bobbing uselessly about till one can tell what caused it to be launched'.
    Ex. Yet it is argued that these fluctuations do not justify either precipitous journal cancellations or freewheeling additions to the collection.
    Ex. In chemistry, increasing the gravitational force on a test tube will cause the precipitate to gather on the bottom.
    Ex. This was all compounded by the fact that the wedding itself was somewhat precipitate, done when it was for practical reasons.
    ----
    * decisión precipitada ante un problema = crisis decision.
    * demasiado precipitado = too hurried, too rush.
    * sacar conclusiones precipitadas = jump to + conclusions.
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo <decisión/actuación> hasty; < juicio> snap (before n)
    II
    masculino (Quím) precipitate
    * * *
    = abrupt, hurried, rushed, rash, hasty, untethered, precipitous, precipitate, precipitate.

    Ex: There were abrupt fluctuations in his output from one week to the next.

    Ex: Capital funding usually took the form of end-of-year 'windfalls' needing to be spent in hectic haste necessitating hurried decision making.
    Ex: Leforte could usually identify those footsteps easily; but today they sounded more rushed that what could normally be expected from the cataloging head.
    Ex: And some way down the list of benefits was a rash promise to 'slash the red tape that hinders our trade with Europe -- and thereby safeguard the 2 1/2 million jobs involved'.
    Ex: It seems to me that the deletion of that was maybe a little bit too hasty.
    Ex: 'Out of the secretarial world it comes, the prime example of the untethered query, bobbing uselessly about till one can tell what caused it to be launched'.
    Ex: Yet it is argued that these fluctuations do not justify either precipitous journal cancellations or freewheeling additions to the collection.
    Ex: In chemistry, increasing the gravitational force on a test tube will cause the precipitate to gather on the bottom.
    Ex: This was all compounded by the fact that the wedding itself was somewhat precipitate, done when it was for practical reasons.
    * decisión precipitada ante un problema = crisis decision.
    * demasiado precipitado = too hurried, too rush.
    * sacar conclusiones precipitadas = jump to + conclusions.

    * * *
    ‹decisión› hasty, hurried, precipitate ( frml)
    fue un viaje tan precipitado que no tuve tiempo de avisar a nadie the trip came up so suddenly that I didn't have time to tell anyone
    precipitate
    * * *

    Del verbo precipitar: ( conjugate precipitar)

    precipitado es:

    el participio

    Multiple Entries:
    precipitado    
    precipitar
    precipitado
    ◊ -da adjetivo ‹decisión/actuación hasty;


    juicio snap ( before n)
    precipitado,-a
    I adjetivo
    1 (con prisa) hasty, hurried
    2 (sin pensar) rash
    II sustantivo masculino Quím precipitate
    precipitar verbo transitivo
    1 (una acción, un acontecimiento) to hurry, rush
    2 (un objeto) to throw, hurl
    3 Quím to precipitate
    ' precipitado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    precipitada
    - atarantado
    - atrabancado
    - lanzado
    - súbito
    English:
    breakneck
    - dash
    - hasty
    - ill-considered
    - precipitate
    - rash
    - panicky
    - snap
    * * *
    precipitado, -a
    adj
    hasty;
    no seas precipitado, reflexiona un poco don't be too hasty, think it over a little
    nm
    Quím precipitate
    * * *
    I adj hasty, sudden
    II m QUÍM precipitate
    * * *
    precipitado, -da adj
    1) : hasty, sudden
    2) : rash
    * * *
    precipitado adj rash / hasty [comp. hastier; superl. hastiest]

    Spanish-English dictionary > precipitado

  • 5 مهدور

    مَهْدُور: مُضَيّع
    lost; wasted, squandered, uselessly spent; futile, vain, useless

    Arabic-English new dictionary > مهدور

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