book vs waste

book

verb
  • To reserve (something) for future use. 

  • To record bets as bookmaker. 

  • To receive the highest grade in a class. 

  • To leave. 

  • To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action. 

  • To issue a caution to, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued. 

  • simple past tense of bake 

  • To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book. 

  • To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something. 

  • To travel very fast. 

noun
  • A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet). 

  • A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement). 

  • A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game. 

  • A major division of a long work. 

  • A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use. 

  • Records of the accounts of a business. 

  • A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar); bookie; turf accountant. 

  • Six tricks taken by one side. 

  • Four of a kind. 

  • The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps. 

  • The script of a musical or opera. 

  • A portfolio of one's previous work in the industry. 

  • The twenty-sixth Lenormand card. 

  • A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc. 

  • Any source of instruction. 

  • The sum of chess knowledge in the opening or endgame. 

  • A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book. 

  • A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game. 

waste

verb
  • To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly. 

  • To devastate; to destroy. 

  • To kill; to murder. 

  • To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail. 

  • 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 be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually. 

  • To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay. 

adj
  • Barren; desert. 

  • Superfluous; needless. 

  • Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess. 

  • Useless and contemptible. 

  • Dismal; gloomy; cheerless. 

  • Unfortunate; disappointing. 

noun
  • A place that has been laid waste or destroyed. 

  • 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. 

  • Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste". 

  • A disused mine or part of one. 

  • Excrement or urine. 

  • Gradual loss or decay. 

  • Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea. 

  • The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land. 

  • The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use. 

  • Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish. 

  • A vast expanse of water. 

  • A large tract of uncultivated land. 

  • A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert. 

  • Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used. 

  • A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away. 

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