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  • 1 waste

    [weist] 1. verb
    (to fail to use (something) fully or in the correct or most useful way: You're wasting my time with all these stupid questions.) desperdiçar
    2. noun
    1) (material which is or has been made useless: industrial waste from the factories; ( also adjective) waste material.) desperdícios
    2) ((the) act of wasting: That was a waste of an opportunity.) perda
    3) (a huge stretch of unused or infertile land, or of water, desert, ice etc: the Arctic wastes.) ermo
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    - wasteful
    - wastefully
    - wastefulness
    - waste paper
    - wastepaper basket
    - waste pipe
    - waste away
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    [weist] n 1 desperdício, esbanjamento, dissipação. 2 perda, quebra, derrame. 3 gasto, desgaste. 4 estrago. 5 material inútil ou supérfluo. 6 sobras, resíduos, refugo, borra. 7 lixo. 8 deserto, solidão, ermo. 9 terra inculta. 10 arch ruína, devastação (devido à guerra, ao fogo). 11 estopa. • vt+vi 1 desperdiçar, dissipar, esbanjar. 2 perder, não aproveitar. he is wasted / ele não está sendo aproveitado, está em lugar errado. 3 gastar, consumir, destruir. 4 desgastar. 5 arruinar, estragar. 6 corroer (ondas). 7 assolar, devastar (guerra). 8 enfraquecer, debilitar, definhar, abater, mirrar. • adj 1 sem valor, inútil. 2 inaproveitado, não usado ou em uso, sobrado, supérfluo. 3 não cultivado, agreste, estéril, improdutivo. 4 deserto, ermo, desabitado, desolado, devastado. 5 abandonado. the garden lies waste / o jardim está abandonado. 6 perdido (trabalho de máquinas). 7 monótono, desinteressante. 8 sombrio, melancólico, lúgubre. 9 de refugo, residual, de despejo, excretado. 10 desperdiçado. loss by waste perda por trabalho improdutivo (máquina). to be wasted on someone perder tempo com, ser inútil, não ter efeito. it was wasted on him / foi perder tempo com ele, foi inútil, não fez efeito algum. to go to waste a) ser desperdiçado, desperdiçar. b) não ser aproveitado, aproveitar. to lay waste devastar, assolar. to run to waste a) ser desperdiçado. b) não ser aproveitado, perder. to waste away definhar-se, decair. he is wasting away, has a wasting disease / ele está definhando, sofre de uma doença que o vai consumindo. waste drainage pipe tubo de esgoto. waste not, want not sabendo usar não vai faltar. waste of time perda de tempo.

    English-Portuguese dictionary > waste

  • 2 waste

    [weist] 1. verb
    (to fail to use (something) fully or in the correct or most useful way: You're wasting my time with all these stupid questions.) desperdiçar
    2. noun
    1) (material which is or has been made useless: industrial waste from the factories; ( also adjective) waste material.) refugo, resíduo
    2) ((the) act of wasting: That was a waste of an opportunity.) desperdício
    3) (a huge stretch of unused or infertile land, or of water, desert, ice etc: the Arctic wastes.) ermo
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    - wasteful - wastefully - wastefulness - waste paper - wastepaper basket - waste pipe - waste away

    English-Portuguese (Brazil) dictionary > waste

  • 3 wastepaper basket

    ['weispeipə] (a basket or other (small) container for waste paper: Put those old letters in the wastepaper basket.) cesto dos papéis
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    waste.pa.per bask.et
    [weist p'eipə ba:skit] n cesto de lixo.

    English-Portuguese dictionary > wastepaper basket

  • 4 wastepaper basket

    ['weispeipə] (a basket or other (small) container for waste paper: Put those old letters in the wastepaper basket.) cesto de papel

    English-Portuguese (Brazil) dictionary > wastepaper basket

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  • waste-paper basket — is the BrE term; in AmE it is wastebasket …   Modern English usage

  • waste-paper basket — noun a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish • Syn: ↑wastepaper basket, ↑wastebasket, ↑waste basket, ↑circular file • Hypernyms: ↑container …   Useful english dictionary

  • waste-paper basket — noun chiefly Brit. a receptacle for small quantities of rubbish …   English new terms dictionary

  • waste paper — noun Waste paper is used before these nouns: ↑basket, ↑bin …   Collocations dictionary

  • waste basket — noun a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish • Syn: ↑wastepaper basket, ↑waste paper basket, ↑wastebasket, ↑circular file • Hypernyms: ↑container * * * waste basket (N American …   Useful english dictionary

  • Waste container — For the software component, see Recycle bin (computing). A collection of movable waste containers in Australia A waste container is a container for temporarily storing waste, and is usually made out of metal or plastic. Common terms are dustbin,… …   Wikipedia

  • waste — v., adj., & n. v. 1 tr. use to no purpose or for inadequate result or extravagantly (waste time). 2 tr. fail to use (esp. an opportunity). 3 tr. (often foll. by on) give (advice etc.), utter (words etc.), without effect. 4 tr. & intr. wear… …   Useful english dictionary

  • basket — noun 1 container ADJECTIVE ▪ bamboo, plastic, straw, wicker, wire, woven, etc. ▪ laundry, sewing …   Collocations dictionary

  • waste — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 missing an opportunity to do/use sth ADJECTIVE ▪ absolute, complete, total, utter ▪ The whole thing has been a complete waste of time. ▪ big, colossal …   Collocations dictionary

  • waste — {{11}}waste (n.) c.1200, desolate regions, from O.Fr. wast, from L. vastum, neut. of vastus waste (see WASTE (Cf. waste) (v.)); replacing O.E. westen, woesten a desert, wilderness, from the Latin word. Meaning useless expenditure is recorded from …   Etymology dictionary

  • waste basket — Basket Bas ket, n. [Of unknown origin. The modern Celtic words seem to be from the English.] 1. A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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