What's the difference between waiter and waster?

Waiter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance, esp. at table.
  • (n.) A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Meanwhile Bradley Beal has developed into a dangerous second option and complementary sidekick in exactly the same way that Dion Waiters hasn't for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
  • (2) A waiter grabbed a table cloth to use as a stretcher, but a photographer took the boy in his arms to carry him to the ambulance.
  • (3) His comic adventures are too many to relate, but it may be said that they culminate in a café of 'singing waiters' where, after a wealth of comic 'business' with the tray, he shows his disdain for articulate speech by singing a vividly explicit song in gibberish.
  • (4) As public sector workers prepare for the biggest strike since the Winter of Discontent in 1979, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed that workers in the worst paid jobs – such as dinner ladies, hairdressers and waiters – have seen their pay fall sharply in real terms, fanning fears about families' ability to cope with soaring food and energy bills.
  • (5) His charge sheet includes numerous assaults (one against a waiter who served him the wrong dish of artichokes); jail time for libelling a fellow painter, Giovanni Baglione, by posting poems around Rome accusing him of plagiarism and calling him Giovanni Coglione (“Johnny Bollocks”); affray (a police report records Caravaggio’s response when asked how he came by a wound: “I wounded myself with my own sword when I fell down these stairs.
  • (6) The paper said the figure was a quarter of the country’s average monthly wage and around half what a waiter earns.
  • (7) "Most of my friends have to get jobs as waiters," says Gardiner, "and I'm getting paid to watch football and talk about it."
  • (8) In a deconsecrated Mayfair church lit with Parisian-style globe lamps, Ronnie Scott's orchestra played jazz standards as waiters in traditional black linen aprons circulated with champagne.
  • (9) It was fully staffed with waiters in white jackets and plimsolls.
  • (10) Our kind waiter, Paul, delighted our tot with her own special jug and cup, and steaming bowlfuls of spätzle pasta.
  • (11) I arrived at work for 10.30am to open the restaurant as a waiter.
  • (12) Unaffordable cities: Berlin the renters' haven hit by green fog of eco-scams Read more “I used to be able to pay my rent for the whole month just by working one shift as a waiter,” he said of his housing situation in 2003, when he lived in a shared flat in a now very desirable neighbourhood on the eastern edge of Kreuzberg.
  • (13) Habib Daguib In the aftermath of the slaughter of 38 tourists at the Imperial Marhaba hotel have come tales of valour by waiters, lifeguards and men whose normal job is renting out water skis and plastic bananas.
  • (14) Corinne Haynes Nottingham • Sitting in a Paris restaurant in 1957, I asked the waiter where I could feed my baby.
  • (15) The authors report a case of pseudoaneurysm in an 18 year old waiter.
  • (16) One high-end eatery in Palma de Mallorca equips its waiters with iPod Touches on which they show pictures of dishes to patrons and, with a tap, take their orders.
  • (17) Unite represents some of the UK’s lowest-paid workers and has successfully campaigned this year on poor tips for waiters, the ill-treatment of workers at Sports Direct and for cleaner air for British Airways workers.
  • (18) I saw traffic wardens, shop assistants, and waiters subjected to rudeness and worse, by people who were clearly loaded.
  • (19) I'm off to Stoke where I plan to spend the next nine or 10 hours standing behind Rob Dorsett outside the Britannia Stadium making faces like this ... Roll-up man Updated at 2.37pm GMT 2.31pm GMT Tancredi Palmeri (@tancredipalmeri) Lazio going strong on Santos' Felipe Anderson, bidding 7m € for the 70% of his property (you know, brazilian ownerships...) January 31, 2013 2.29pm GMT Patrick O'Dea writes: "My cousin Alecc is a waiter in Red Lobster is New York," he says.
  • (20) As for the staff, the PR assures me that Nando's is keen to offer its workers opportunities to advance themselves, many grillers and waiters moving up the ranks to managerial status.

Waster


Definition:

  • (v. t.) One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal.
  • (v. t.) An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste; -- called also a thief.
  • (v. t.) A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cognitive studies of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) patients have revealed (1) the presence of an IQ advantage in patients, siblings and parents due to socioeconomic status, genetic, hormonal, or other factors; (2) an IQ disadvantage in salt wasters compared with simple virilizers, probably due to early brain damage secondary to salt-wasting crisis; (3) a possibly increased incidence of learning disabilities, particularly in female patients and particularly for calculation abilities, due to disease-related early androgen exposure; and (4) a possible post-pubertal spatial advantage in CAH women, also due to early androgen exposure.
  • (2) Simple virilizers are more likely to be learning disabled than salt-wasters (P = .04, one-tailed).
  • (3) A number of methods of fluoride supplementation are being discussed in this paper and compared to drinking waster fluoridation.
  • (4) "The boy was tweeting before the game that he's a super time-waster.
  • (5) The drug, therefore, has been used to facilitate renal waster excretion when severe hyponatremia occurs in the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion.
  • (6) His then-girlfriend, film critic and author Antonia Quirke, wrote a memoir, Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers, in which he appears as a romantic waster, who will definitely not amount to anything, the enormity of this novel notwithstanding.
  • (7) Photograph: Noah Smith for the Guardian He operates alone but is part of a small, vocal community which uses social media to identify and excoriate alleged water wasters under the hashtags #droughtshaming and #droughtshame .
  • (8) All these wasters... was that last minute directed by Richard Linklater?
  • (9) Presumably, this is because some salt-waster patients suffer brain injury from episodes of hypotension and hyponatremia.
  • (10) How should time-wasters and persistent no-shows be treated – should they just be summarily excluded from accessing services?
  • (11) The jury at Bristol crown court was told he believed Ebrahimi was a time-waster and serial complainer and let his antipathy towards him affect the way he dealt with his case.
  • (12) Where are all the undeserving poor , the ones he gleefully holds up as proof that the welfare system is a soft touch for feckless wasters?
  • (13) The water wasters of Los Angeles are not easily intimidated, it seems.
  • (14) However, salt-waster patients have a lower IQ (104 vs 117) than simple virilizer patients (P = .005, one-tailed).
  • (15) Vampire series True Blood was another time-waster – I only gave up when the fairy ring codswallop started up (don’t ask).
  • (16) Because of this confounding effect on IQ in the salt-waster form of congenital adrenal hyperplasia, the simple virilizer female versus unaffected female siblings reprsents the best test of the hypothesis.
  • (17) He was actually claiming to be best time waster in the world on Twitter yesterday!
  • (18) • Our jury prize went to the Russian director Andrei Zvagintsev for his terrific, and intriguingly Chabrol-ish drama Elena, about a woman with a grown-up, deadbeat waster of a son; she is a nurse who is now re-married to the wealthy man whom she nursed back to health.
  • (19) There have been other great characters, of course – Paul Calf, the Mancunian waster, Tommy Saxondale and Tony Ferrino among them, but few have rivalled Partridge, the gaffe-prone Norfolk chatshow and radio host with catchphrases galore.