What's the difference between splurge and waste?

Splurge


Definition:

  • (n.) A blustering demonstration, or great effort; a great display.
  • (v. i.) To make a great display in any way, especially in oratory.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If you don’t fancy the cost of what is undoubtedly a splurge stay, you can sample the glamour at its cafe-restaurant, itself a popular meeting place.
  • (2) Singles’ Day: Chinese to splurge $20bn in world's biggest shopping event Read more Monazahian was in London this week to speak about Bamilo, which Alexa ranks as Iran’s 17th most visited website, at the Iran Consumer Summit.
  • (3) An estimated £810m was spent online by British shoppers on Friday, according to internet retail experts IMRG, a figure that eclipsed the £650m splurge predicted for Cyber Monday, and potentially means Boxing Day has been usurped as the biggest shopping day of the year once store sales are taken into account.
  • (4) The lexicon for most retailers runs from impulse buy to splurge to treat; they prefer us to wander the aisles with our eyes wide open and our minds shut tight.
  • (5) So this very strong jet stream has kept this cold air locked in, and then suddenly it's been allowed to be released, sort of splurged out southwards, due to various meteorological factors.
  • (6) Knowing his previous work, it would be no surprise if this is how he had produced the metallic splurge.
  • (7) But this leaves a roller-coaster in spending with cuts in the first three years and then a splurge at the end of the next parliament.
  • (8) In the wake of Convergence, a giant crossover that briefly sucked all its comics into an alternate universe, DC has just launched a splurge of new titles to freshen up its line.
  • (9) Katie Martin (@katie_martin_FX) Barc on ceiling 'tremors': "Nervousness in the front end is driven more by fears related to a loss of liquidity than a loss of principal" October 9, 2013 Also coming up today.... a splurge of UK economic data at 9.30am (including trade and industrial production), Mario Draghi is giving a speech, Vince Cable is appearing at the Treasury committee to discuss the Royal Mail flotation, and the International Monetary Fund will release more details of its latest assessment of the World Economy.
  • (10) The news that Facebook has splurged $2bn (£1.2bn) on buying Oculus Rift , the world's first really viable virtual reality headset, has set off waves of plaintive snark in the world of videogames.
  • (11) He will probably leave fuming about 'broken promises' because they have not funded a splurge on top-quality championship players such as Marlon Harewood."
  • (12) The introduction of financial fair play rules means Chelsea do not intend to splurge as freely as they did earlier in the Roman Abramovich regime but when asked whether the club would be able to fork out up to £50m in the summer on a new player, Mourinho replied: "Yes, I think Chelsea can do that.
  • (13) Manchester United are planning another summer transfer splurge after this year’s £150m spend, with Real Madrid being viewed as the model for a strategy to recruit an elite player for every position in Louis van Gaal’s squad.
  • (14) But it has also meant a splurge of investment in European clubs, from Atlético Madrid to Manchester City, and even a controversial involvement in the Portuguese second division (the Chinese sponsor of the league had asked that each of the top 10 sides have a Chinese player in their squad – the idea was later abandoned).
  • (15) Money from the west funded an infrastructure splurge that brought new autobahns, rail links, a trade show centre and the development of Leipzig-Halle airport.
  • (16) The ruling led to a splurge of secret outside funding in the 2010 midterm elections in which about $300m was spent, a threefold increase on 2006.
  • (17) Some of my northern pals splurge on personalised number plates.
  • (18) They would not splurge money on vanity projects, on “free” schools, sports stadiums, high-speed railways, and flashy science and arts centres.
  • (19) The truth is that sharp cuts in global emissions are urgently required and one-quarter of Britain’s carbon budget will need to be splurged on aviation by 2050, according to the Committee on Climate Change.
  • (20) Bank of England credit figures appear to show that middle income families are paying down their debts at a slower pace to release funds for consumption rather than a splurge of spending based on higher consumer credit.

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."