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Date "WASTEPAPER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1860. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deterioration | Decayed; Verb: moth-eaten, worm-eaten; mildewed, rusty, moldy, spotted, seedy, time-worn, moss-grown; discolored; effete, wasted, crumbling, moldering, rotten, cankered, blighted, tainted; depraved; (vicious); decrepid, decrepit; broke, busted, broken, out of commission, hors de combat, out of action, broken down; done, done for, done up; worn out, used up, finished; beyond saving, fit for the dust hole, fit for the wastepaper basket, past work; (useless). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: WASTEPAPER |
| Specialty definitions using "WASTEPAPER": PRESS BUCKER ♦ scrap basket ♦ YARD SUPERVISOR. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Samuel Butler | Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "WASTEPAPER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.83% of the time. "WASTEPAPER" is used about 63 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.83% | 61 | 43,149 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.17% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 63 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "WASTEPAPER": wastepaper basket ♦ wastepaper bin. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "WASTEPAPER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | letra të hedhura (discard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | أوراق مهملة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отпадъчна хартия. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | starý papír (waste paper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کاغذباطله , سرکاغذیاته کاغذ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vieux papiers (waste paper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | makulatur (rubbish, spoilage), altpapier (scrap, waste paper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παλιόχαρτα (mackle, printed reclaimed paper, printer's reject, spoilt sheet, waste, waste sheet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | יר פסולת. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | papírkosár (wastebasket, waste-basket, wastepaper basket, waste-paper basket). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | straccio (cloth, duster, rag, rags), cartaccia (scrap, waste paper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 紙屑 , 反故 (scrap paper), 反古 (scrap paper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ほ" (care, complement, favor, guardianship, patronage, protection, scrap paper, shelter), ほぐ (scrap paper), かみくず. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | astepaperway maculatura (mackle, printed reclaimed paper, printer's reject, spoilt sheet, waste, waste sheet). (various references) coş de hârtii (waste paper, wastepaper basket). (various references) макулатура (trash, waste paper, waste-paper). (various references) otpaci hartije. (various references) papeles usados. (various references) pappersavfall. (various references) kullanılmış kâğıt, kâğıt artığı. (various references) макулатура (garbage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "WASTEPAPER": wastepapers. (additional references) | |
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"WASTEPAPER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: wastepipe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "WASTEPAPER" (pronounced wā"stpā'per) |
| 4 | -p ā' p er | flypaper, newspaper, sandpaper, wallpaper. |
| 3 | -ā' p er | landscaper, skyscraper. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-p-p-r-s-t-w" | |
-2 letters: appeaser, asperate, parapets, prepaste, pretapes, seawater, separate, teawares. | |
-3 letters: aerates, appears, appease, parapet, pewters, pretape, rappees, repeats, retapes, seaware, stepper, swapper, sweater, tappers, teaware, watapes. | |
-4 letters: aerate, appear, aretes, easter, eaters, etapes, papaws, papers, paster, paters, pawers, peseta, pesewa, pester, peters, pewter, prates, preset, rappee, rawest, reatas, repast, repeat, reseat, retape, rewets, sapper. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-p-p-r-s-t-w" | |
+1 letter: wastepapers. | |
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