Business name word
Waste
Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
Pronunciation: /ˈweɪ̯st/, [ˈweɪ̯st]
What “Waste” means
Noun
- Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
- Excrement or urine.
- A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
- A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
- A large tract of uncultivated land.
Adj
- Useless and contemptible.
Adj
- Uncultivated, uninhabited.
- Barren; desert; empty.
- Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
- Superfluous; needless.
- Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
Verb
- To devastate; to destroy.
- To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate.
- To kill; to murder.
- 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.
- To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
Where the word comes from
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”). Displaced native Middle English wernen (“to refuse”) likely due to the similar sounding Middle English warnen
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 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”). Displaced native Old English essian and strȳndan. Largely overtook Old English forspillan and wēstan.
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