measure
quantity
amount | how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify |
laying waste
ruin
ruining
ruination
wrecking | destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined |
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 |
| waste permissive waste | (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect |
drain
drainpipe
waste pipe | a pipe through which liquid is carried away |
wastepaper basket
waste-paper basket
wastebasket
waste basket
circular file | a container with an open top, for discarded paper and other rubbish |
thriftlessness
waste
wastefulness | the trait of wasting resources, a life characterized by thriftlessness and waste, the wastefulness of missed opportunities |
| quantity | an adequate or large amount, he had a quantity of ammunition |
| quantity | the concept that something has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable |
| numerical quantity | a quantity expressed as a number |
variable
variable quantity | a quantity that can assume any of a set of values |
constant
constant quantity
invariable | a quantity that does not vary |
parameter
parametric quantity | a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves |
unknown
unknown quantity | a variable whose values are solutions of an equation |
| unknown quantity | a factor in a given situation whose bearing and importance is not apparent, I don't know what the new man will do, he's still an unknown quantity |
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 |
fundamental quantity
fundamental measure | one of the four quantities that are the basis of systems of measurement |
| definite quantity | a specific measure of amount |
| indefinite quantity | an estimated quantity |
| relative quantity | a quantity relative to some purpose |
prime
prime quantity | a number that has no factor but itself and |
charge unit
quantity unit | a measure of the quantity of electricity (determined by the amount of an electric current and the time for which it flows) |
complex number
complex quantity
imaginary number
imaginary | (mathematics) a number of the form abi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of - |
large indefinite quantity
large indefinite amount | an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude |
small indefinite quantity
small indefinite amount | an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude |
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 |
waste
run off | run off as waste, The water wastes back into the ocean |
| waste | get rid of, We waste the dirty water by channeling it into the sewer |