laying waste ruin ruining ruination wrecking | destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined |
facility | a service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you, a cell phone with internet facility |
facility | something designed and created to serve a particular function and to afford a particular convenience or service, catering facilities, toilet facilities, educational facilities |
waste wastefulness dissipation | useless or profitless activity, using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly, if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste, mindless dissipation of natural resources |
waste of effort waste of energy | a useless effort |
waste of material | a useless consumption of material |
waste of money | money spent for inadequate return, the senator said that the project was a waste of money |
waste of time | the devotion of time to a useless activity, the waste of time could prove fatal |
sorting | grouping by class or kind or size |
waste permissive waste | (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect |
athletic facility | a facility for athletic events |
cafeteria facility | (usually plural) facilities for providing food for employees or visitors |
dock dockage docking facility | landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired, may have gates to let water in or out, the ship arrived at the dock more than a day late |
drain drainpipe waste pipe | a pipe through which liquid is carried away |
facility installation | a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry, the assembly plant is an enormous facility |
medical building health facility healthcare facility | building where medicine is practiced |
penal institution penal facility | an institution where persons are confined for punishment and to protect the public |
public toilet comfort station public convenience convenience public lavatory restroom toilet facility wash room | a toilet that is available to the public |
recreational facility recreation facility | a public facility for recreation |
research center research facility | a center where research is done |
wastepaper basket waste-paper basket wastebasket waste basket circular file | a container with an open top, for discarded paper and other rubbish |
wind farm wind park wind energy facility | a power plant that uses wind turbines to generate electricity |
facility readiness | a natural effortlessness, they conversed with great facility, a happy readiness of conversation--Jane Austen |
thriftlessness waste wastefulness | the trait of wasting resources, a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste, the wastefulness of missed opportunities |
adeptness adroitness deftness facility quickness | skillful performance or ability without difficulty, his quick adeptness was a product of good design, he was famous for his facility as an archer |
classification categorization categorisation sorting | the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories |
sorting algorithm | an algorithm for sorting a list |
sort program sorting program | a utility program that sorts data items |
extended care facility | a medical institution that provides prolonged care (as in cases of prolonged illness or rehabilitation from acute illness) |
barren waste wasteland | an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation, the barrens of central Africa, the trackless wastes of the desert |
dump garbage dump trash dump rubbish dump wasteyard waste-yard dumpsite | a piece of land where waste materials are dumped |
toxic waste dump toxic waste site toxic dumpsite | a location where toxic wastes can be or have been disposed of (often illegally) |
toxic site toxic waste area Superfund site | a site where toxic wastes have been dumped and the Environmental Protection Agency has designated them to be cleaned up |
sort sorting | an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion, the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting |
body waste excretion excreta excrement excretory product | waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body |
human waste | the body wastes of human beings |
waste waste material waste matter waste product | any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted, they collect the waste once a week, much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers |
garbage refuse food waste scraps | food that is discarded (as from a kitchen) |
toxic waste toxic industrial waste | poisonous waste materials, can cause injury (especially by chemical means) |
high-level radioactive waste | radioactive waste that left in a nuclear reactor after the nuclear fuel has been consumed |
low-level radioactive waste | (medicine) radioactive waste consisting of objects that have been briefly exposed to radioactivity (as in certain medical tests) |
radioactive waste | useless radioactive materials that are left after some laboratory or commercial process is completed |
waste paper | paper discarded after use |
waste rot | become physically weaker, Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world |
lay waste to waste devastate desolate ravage scourge | cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly, The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion |
waste emaciate macerate | cause to grow thin or weak, The treatment emaciated him |
pine away waste languish | lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief, After her husband died, she just pined away |
consume squander waste ware | spend extravagantly, waste not, want not |
waste | use inefficiently or inappropriately, waste heat, waste a joke on an unappreciative audience |
neutralize neutralise liquidate waste knock off do in | get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing, The mafia liquidated the informer, the double agent was neutralized |