waste burial

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• burial */ — UK [ˈberɪəl] / US noun Word forms burial : singular burial plural burials 1) [countable/uncountable] the process of putting a dead body into a grave in the ground at a funeral The family chose cremation rather than burial. burial rites a burial… …   English dictionary

• burial — bur|i|al [ beriəl ] noun * count or uncount the process of putting a dead body into a GRAVE in the ground at a funeral: The family chose cremation rather than burial. burial rites a burial mound a. uncount the act of burying something in the… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• waste — 01. One major pollution problem is that governments don t know what to do with the [waste] produced by nuclear power plants. 02. Dishwashers are very [wasteful] in terms of water and electricity. It s better to wash dishes by hand. 03. Don t… …   Grammatical examples in English

• Burial —    The first burial we have an account of is that of Sarah (Gen. 23). The first commercial transaction recorded is that of the purchase of a burial place, for which Abraham weighed to Ephron four hundred shekels of silver current money with the… …   Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Radioactive waste — 2007 ISO radioactivity danger logo, designed in part for long term radioactive waste depositories which might survive into a far future time in which all knowledge of the meaning of present common radiation danger symbols and signs has been lost… …   Wikipedia

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• The Waste Land — For other uses, see Wasteland. The Waste Land[A] is a 434 line[B] modernist poem by T. S. Eliot published in 1922. It has been called one of the most important poems of the 20th century. [1] Despite the poem s obscurity[2] its shifts between… …   Wikipedia

• Atari video game burial — The Atari video game burial of 1983 is an infamous event in video gaming history where Atari dumped thousands of video game cartridges, including a large number of copies of their video game adaptation E.T. the Extra Terrestrial , into a New… …   Wikipedia

• The Waste Land — Das wüste Land (englischer Originaltitel: The Waste Land) ist ein 433 Zeilen langes Gedicht des anglo amerikanischen Literaturnobelpreisträgers T. S. Eliot aus dem Jahr 1922. T.S. Eliot hat es dem von ihm verehrten Ezra Pound gewidmet, der Eliot… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• To lay waste — Lay Lay (l[=a]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Laid} (l[=a]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Laying}.] [OE. leggen, AS. lecgan, causative, fr. licgan to lie; akin to D. leggen, G. legen, Icel. leggja, Goth. lagjan. See {Lie} to be prostrate.] 1. To cause to lie down,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• nuclear reactor — Physics. reactor (def. 4). Also called nuclear pile. [1940 45] * * * Device that can initiate and control a self sustaining series of nuclear fission reactions. Neutrons released in one fission reaction may strike other heavy nuclei, causing them …   Universalium