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Waste Matter

Definition: Waste Matter

Waste Matter

Noun

1. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Waste Matter

Synonyms: waste (n), waste material (n), waste product (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Waste Matter

English words defined with "waste matter": body wasteDraff, Draughthouseeffluent, elimination, Emunctory, evacuation, excrement, excreta, excreting, excretion, excretory productfaecal, fecal, feculent, flushless toiletgliding bacteriamyxobacter, myxobacteria, myxobacteriumPoake, pollutantsewage, sewer water, sewerage, slagheap, slime bacteria, spontaneous combustionTretUropoeticvoidingwastewater, winnow. (references)
Specialty definitions using "waste matter": Activated SludgeBackyard Composting, bath attendant, bath-house attendantCells, closed ecological system, CONTINUOUS-CRUSHER OPERATOR, crusher operator, CULLET CRUSHER-AND-WASHERElectrostatic Precipitator, EXTRACTOR OPERATORglass crusher, glass pulverizer equipment operatorMASSEUR/MASSEUSEOrganic MatterRefuse Disposal, Romancesecondary wastewater treatment, sedimentation basin, sedimentation tankused water. (references)
Etymologies containing "waste matter": Draughthouse. (references)

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Modern Translations: Waste Matter

Language Translations for "waste matter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

radioaktive affaldsstoffer kan ogsaa naa ind i den humane foedekaede ved den goedningsmaessige udnyttelse af slam med hoeje radioaktivitetskoncentrationer (radioactive waste matter can also find its way into the food chain ( and thereby reach man's diet ) due to the utilization as manure of sludge containing high radionuclide concentrations). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

radioactief afval kan ook in de menselijke voedselketen terechtkomen door het gebruik van slib van de afvalwaterzuivering met grote concentratie aan radionucliden als meststof (radioactive waste matter can also find its way into the food chain ( and thereby reach man's diet ) due to the utilization as manure of sludge containing high radionuclide concentrations). (various references)

   

French

  

en utilisant pour la fumaison des boues des eaux d'égout qui ont une concentration élevée en radionucléides, des déchets radioactifs peuvent s'introduire dans la chaîne alimentaire de l'homme (radioactive waste matter can also find its way into the food chain ( and thereby reach man's diet ) due to the utilization as manure of sludge containing high radionuclide concentrations). (various references)

   

German

  

auch durch die Verwendung von Klaerschlamm mit hoher Radionulidkonzentration fuer Duengezwecke koennen radioaktive Abfallsubstanzen in die Naehrstoffkette des Menschen gelangen (radioactive waste matter can also find its way into the food chain ( and thereby reach man's diet ) due to the utilization as manure of sludge containing high radionuclide concentrations). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τα ραδιενεργά απόβλητα μπορούν να μπουν στην τροφική αλυσίδα όταν ιλύς που περιέχει ραδιονουκλεϊδια σε υψηλή συγκέντρωση,χρησιμοποιηθεί (radioactive waste matter can also find its way into the food chain ( and thereby reach man's diet ) due to the utilization as manure of sludge containing high radionuclide concentrations). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

selejt (brack, production losses, refuse, reject, rejectamenta, scrap, shorts, spoilage, waste, wastrel). (various references)

   

Italian

  

impiegando come concime i fanghi di fognatura ad alta concentrazione di radionuclidi si possono introdurre residui radioattivi nella catena alimentare dell'uomo (radioactive waste matter can also find its way into the food chain ( and thereby reach man's diet ) due to the utilization as manure of sludge containing high radionuclide concentrations). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

廃棄物 (garbage, trash, waste). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

はいきぶつ (garbage, trash, waste). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

asteway attermay

   

Portuguese

  

os radionúclidos podem entrar na cadeia alimentar através da utilização como estrume de lamas com altas concentrações de resíduos radioactivos (radioactive waste matter can also find its way into the food chain ( and thereby reach man's diet ) due to the utilization as manure of sludge containing high radionuclide concentrations). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

utilizando como abono los lodos de las aguas de alcantarillado que tienen una concentración elevada de radionúclidos se pueden introducir residuos radioactivos en la cadena alimentaria del hombre (radioactive waste matter can also find its way into the food chain ( and thereby reach man's diet ) due to the utilization as manure of sludge containing high radionuclide concentrations). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Waste Matter

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-m-r-s-t-t-t-w"

-1 letter: wattmeters.

-2 letters: terawatts, wattmeter.

-3 letters: amreetas, attester, seatmate, seawater, stearate, stemware, teamster, teawares, terawatt.

-4 letters: aerates, amreeta, estreat, matters, metates, remates, restate, retaste, reteams, seaware, smatter, steamer, stretta, strette, swatter, sweater, tartest, tatters, teaware, testate, tetters, warmest, wattest, wetters, wettest.

-5 letters: aerate, ameers, aretes, armets, aswarm, attars, attest, easter, eaters, estate, master, maters, matres, matter.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Waste Matter


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 61 73 74 65      4D 61 74 74 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01100001 01110011 01110100 01100101 00100000 01001101 01100001 01110100 01110100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#97 &#115 &#116 &#101 &#32 &#77 &#97 &#116 &#116 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0061 0073 0074 0065      004D 0061 0074 0074 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

57678586712476786867184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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