The Collaborative International Dictionary
Waste \Waste\, a. [OE. wast, OF. wast, from L. vastus, influenced by the kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosti, G. w["u]st, OS. w?sti, D. woest, AS. w[=e]ste. Cf. Vast.]
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Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
The dismal situation waste and wild.
--Milton.His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into the waste darkness of futurity.
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Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.
But his waste words returned to him in vain.
--Spenser.Not a waste or needless sound, Till we come to holier ground.
--Milton.Ill day which made this beauty waste.
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Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous. And strangled with her waste fertility. --Milton. Waste gate, a gate by which the superfluous water of a reservoir, or the like, is discharged. Waste paper. See under Paper. Waste pipe, a pipe for carrying off waste, or superfluous, water or other fluids. Specifically:
(Steam Boilers) An escape pipe. See under Escape.
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(Plumbing) The outlet pipe at the bottom of a bowl, tub, sink, or the like. Waste steam.
Steam which escapes the air.
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Exhaust steam.
Waste trap, a trap for a waste pipe, as of a sink.
Wiktionary
n. a pipe that carries off liquid waste; a drain or drainpipe
WordNet
Usage examples of "waste pipe".
I mention it purely to give comfort to those of you who have found raw sewage backing up a waste pipe in your new caldarium, three days after your contractors vanished off the site.
Blood and water together are then conducted here through small runnels into this main runnel and down a waste pipe into the pit.
To make the picture as vivid as possible he held both hands below the outlet of the waste pipe as if to catch the outflow, and when he did this the explorer drew back his head and feeling behind him with one hand sought to return to his chair.
He saw himself as a wounded caterpillar crawling up a waste pipe towards the plug-hole of a bath.
She could see the long concrete building beyond the barbed wire, its waste pipe reaching down to the Mersey.
Then came the sound of someone towelling themselves, and when, a minute or two later, there came the furious 'gurgling of water running out of the waste pipe, I eased myself off the door, passed through the two kitchen doors and outside garage door just in time to see the bathroom window open and a little cloud of steam come gushing out I caught her arm as she lowered herself to the ground, stifled the frightened gasp with my free hand, and led her back inside.
Kim glanced into its depths, where now ran a waste pipe, a water pipe, an electrical service, a phone line, and a TV cable.