{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "weɪst" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/waste.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/waste.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English wast, waste (“a waste”, noun), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wast, waste (“a waste”), from Frankish *wōstī (“a waste”), from Proto-Germanic *wōstaz, *wōstuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty, wasted”).", "From Middle English wast, waste (“waste”, adjective), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wast (“waste”), from Frankish *wōstī (“waste, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty, wasted”). Cognate with Old High German wuosti, wuasti (“waste, empty”), German wüst, Old Saxon wōsti (“desolate”), Old English wēste (“waste, barren, desolate, empty”).", "From Middle English wasten (“to waste, lay waste”), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French waster (“to waste, devastate”) (compare also the variant gaster and French gâter from a related Old French word); the Anglo-Norman form waster was either from Frankish *wōstijan (“to waste”), from Proto-Indo-European *wāsto- (“empty, wasted”), or alternatively from Latin vastāre, present active infinitive of vastō and influenced by the Frankish; the English word was assisted by similarity to native Middle English westen (\"to waste\"; > English weest). Cognate with Old High German wuostan, wuastan, wuostjan (“to waste”) (Modern German wüsten), Old English wēstan (“to lay waste, ravage”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish." }, { "mean": "Excrement or urine.\nThe cage was littered with animal waste." }, { "mean": "A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert." }, { "mean": "A place that has been laid waste or destroyed." }, { "mean": "A large tract of uncultivated land." }, { "mean": "(historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land." }, { "mean": "A vast expanse of water." }, { "mean": "A disused mine or part of one." }, { "mean": "The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.\nThat was a waste of time!\nHer life seemed a waste." }, { "mean": "Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used." }, { "mean": "Gradual loss or decay." }, { "mean": "A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away." }, { "mean": "(rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see \"to lay waste\"." }, { "mean": "(law) 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 character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect." }, { "mean": "(geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea." } ] }, { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(MTE, slang, derogatory) Useless and contemptible." } ] }, { "name": "References", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "^ Orel, Vladimir(2003),“*wōstaz”, inA Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden Brill, →ISBN, page 470\n\n ^ Kroonen, Guus(2013),“*wōstu-”, inEtymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic(Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11), Leiden, Boston Brill, →ISBN, page 593 “*ueh₂s-tu-”" } ] }, { "name": "Adjective_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited." }, { "mean": "Barren; desert." }, { "mean": "Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess." }, { "mean": "Superfluous; needless." }, { "mean": "Dismal; gloomy; cheerless." }, { "mean": "Unfortunate; disappointing. (Can we add an example for this sense?)" } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To devastate; to destroy." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.\n\nWe wasted millions of dollars and several years on that project." }, { "mean": "(transitive, slang) To kill; to murder." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually." }, { "mean": "(law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay." } ] }, { "name": "See_also", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Waste on Wikipedia.Wikipedia \n Waste in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "레퍼런스", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "형용사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "참고_참고", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] }, "synonyms": { "org": [ "(slang, to kill or murder): cack, top, duppy (see also Thesaurus:kill)" ], "kor": [ "" ] } } }