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  • waste material — noun any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted (Freq. 1) they collect the waste once a week much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers • Syn: ↑waste, ↑waste matter, ↑waste product • Derivationally related fo …   Useful english dictionary

  • rubbish — noun 1》 chiefly Brit. waste material; refuse or litter. 2》 unimportant or worthless material.     ↘nonsense; worthless talk or ideas. verb Brit. informal criticize and reject as worthless. adjective Brit. informal very bad. Derivatives rubbishy… …   English new terms dictionary

  • Niebuhr, Barthold Georg — born Aug. 27, 1776, Copenhagen, Den. died Jan. 31, 1831, Bonn, Prussia German historian. Niebuhr held posts in state service in Denmark and Prussia before resigning to become state historiographer. In 1810 he began a series of lectures at the… …   Universalium

  • rubbish — n. & v. n. esp. Brit. 1 waste material; debris, refuse, litter. 2 worthless material or articles; trash. 3 (often as int.) absurd ideas or suggestions; nonsense. v.tr. colloq. 1 criticize severely. 2 reject as worthless. Derivatives: rubbishy adj …   Useful english dictionary

  • Bag Holder — An informal investment term used to describe an investor who holds a position in a stock which decreases in value until it is worthless. Typically, the bag holder will hold the position for an extended period of time in which most of the… …   Investment dictionary

  • Albert Medal (RSA) — This article describes the Albert Medal for distinguished merit in promoting Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. For the Albert Medal for Lifesaving, see Albert Medal (lifesaving). The Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) was instituted… …   Wikipedia

  • List of English words of Yiddish origin — For Yiddish words used by English speaking Jews (that are not necessarily English), see Yiddish words used by English speaking Jews. This is a list of English words of Yiddish origin, many of which have entered the English language by way of… …   Wikipedia

  • paltry — pal|try [ˈpo:ltri US ˈpo:l ] adj [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: paltry worthless material (16 19 centuries)] 1.) a paltry amount of something is too small to be useful or important ▪ paltry sum of money ▪ He received only a paltry £25 a day. 2.)… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • scrapheap — [skrap′hēp΄] n. a pile of discarded material, as of scrap iron throw on the scrapheap or toss on the scrapheap or cast on the scrapheap to discard or get rid of as useless * * * scrap·heap also scrap heap (skrăpʹhēp ) n. 1. A pile or heap of… …   Universalium

  • Dross — For the Austrian municipality, see Droß. Aluminium dross Dross is a mass of solid impurities floating on a molten metal. It appears usually on the melting of low melting point metals or alloys such as tin, lead, zinc …   Wikipedia

  • Eva Hesse — Infobox Artist bgcolour = #6495ED name = Eva Hesse imagesize = caption = birthname = birthdate = 1936 location = Hamburg, Germany deathdate = 1970 deathplace = nationality = American field = Sculpture training = Yale University, studied with… …   Wikipedia

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