What's the difference between laze and waste?

Laze


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To be lazy or idle.
  • (v. t.) To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to laze away whole days.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The 50 best beaches in the world Beaches are good for many things, and not just lazing on, as it happens.
  • (2) Dogs laze in the stifling afternoon heat of the Shire Valley.
  • (3) What feels new and fresh here isn't a threesome or a Grindr hook-up, but a scene where Agustín and his boyfriend are lazing on the sofa watching television.
  • (4) You can laze around beside a rooftop pool or dine at the outdoor (buffet) restaurant overlooking the beach.
  • (5) But lazing on the huge patio overlooking the ocean, well away from other buildings, will make you forget those inconveniences.
  • (6) Lazing in bed sets you back in this interminable rat race.
  • (7) Linger over brunch, join in a game of bocce (boules) or just laze by the fire pit.
  • (8) Next day we lazed on the city's sandy Catalans beach, just a few minutes from our hotel, the oh-so-Marseillaise Richelieu.
  • (9) Whitetip reef sharks laze ahead of their night-time feed, while mustard-yellow trumpetfish wriggle along past shoals of glittering bigeye jacks.
  • (10) "We are here for negotiations with Akhmetov," said Anton Kosenko, a self-styled MP of the Donetsk People's Republic, who was wearing a white suit and appeared to be in charge of a dozen fighters with automatic weapons and knives who were lazing on the grass outside the gates to Akhmetov's lavish residence.
  • (11) Hearing the drumbeat of the pro-marijuana lobby, you'd be excused if you believed the typical Jamaican was a Rastafarian pothead lazing on the beach amid the soporific sound of Bob Marley's One Love.
  • (12) Laze in the hammocks, splash about in your private pool or help yourself to fruit and veg from the garden and eggs from the free-range chickens.
  • (13) But the road was calling, just as it had done yesterday, when neither of us had wanted to leave Dar Ayniwen, a beautiful house in Marrakech's Palmeraie suburb, where we had lazed on the terrace and sipped gin and tonics as the call to prayer echoed through the dusk.
  • (14) While he was there, the editor of the university magazine, Clive James, published an early poem, but mostly Murray "lazed around and read the library.

Waste


Definition:

  • (a.) Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
  • (a.) Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper.
  • (a.) Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous.
  • (a.) To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy.
  • (a.) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
  • (a.) To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.
  • (a.) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay.
  • (v. i.) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.
  • (v. i.) To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.
  • (v.) The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc.
  • (v.) That which is wasted or desolate; a devastated, uncultivated, or wild country; a deserted region; an unoccupied or unemployed space; a dreary void; a desert; a wilderness.
  • (v.) That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.
  • (v.) Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder.
  • (v.) Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
  • (2) Muscle wasting in MYD may be explained by these abnormalities as well.
  • (3) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
  • (4) Communicating sustainability is a subtle attempt at doing good Read more And yet, in environmental terms it is infinitely preferable to prevent waste altogether, rather than recycle it.
  • (5) In a newspaper interview last month, Shapps said the BBC needed to tackle what he said was a culture of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting if it hoped to retain the full £3.6bn raised by the licence fee after the current Royal Charter expires in 2016.
  • (6) Swedes tend to see generous shared parental leave as good for the economy, since it prevents the nation's investment in women's education and expertise from going to waste.
  • (7) In South Africa, health risks associated with exposure to toxic waste sites need to be viewed in the context of current community health concerns, competing causes of disease and ill-health, and the relative lack of knowledge about environmental contamination and associated health effects.
  • (8) It was recently demonstrated that MRL-lpr lymphoid cells transferred into lethally irradiated MRL- +mice unexpectedly failed to induce the early onset of lupus syndrome and massive lymphadenopathy of the donor, instead they caused a severe wasting syndrome resembling graft-vs-host (GvH) disease.
  • (9) But there was a clear penalty on Diego Costa – it is a waste of time and money to have officials by the side of the goal because normally they do nothing – and David Luiz’s elbow I didn’t see, I confess.
  • (10) But in the rush to design it, Girardet wonders if the finer details of waste disposal and green power were lost.
  • (11) The agency, which works to reduce food waste and plastic bag use, has already been gutted , with its budget reduced to £17.9m in 2014, down from £37.7m in 2011.
  • (12) Sagan had a way of not wasting words, even playfully.
  • (13) In the end, prisons are all about wasting human life and will always be places that take things away.
  • (14) It just seems a bit of a waste, I say, given that he's young and handsome and famous.
  • (15) Any surplus food left over goes to anaerobic digestion energy plants, which turn food waste into electricity.
  • (16) By its calorific value the mycelial waste is equal to brown coal or peat.
  • (17) The observed differences in Na excretion suggest that this aldosterone hypersecretion may be of pathophysiological importance as a protection against inappropriate renal waste of Na during the early phase of endotoxin-induced fever.
  • (18) Hyperbilirubinaemia in newborn infants is generally regarded as a problem, and bilirubin itself as toxic metabolic waste, but the high frequency in newborn infants suggests that the excess of neonatal bilirubin may have a positive function.
  • (19) The original agricultural wastes had captured CO2 from the air through the photosynthesis process; biochar is a low-tech way of sequestering carbon, effectively for ever.
  • (20) In March, the Tories reappointed their trusty old attack dogs, M&C Saatchi, to work alongside the lead agency, Euro RSCG, and M&C Saatchi's chief executive, David Kershaw, wasted no time in setting out his stall, saying: "It's a fallacy that online has replaced offline in terms of media communications."