Word Meanings - WASTEBASKET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A basket used in offices, libraries, etc., as a receptacle for waste paper.

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• BASKET BALL
  A game, usually played indoors, in which two parties of players contest with each other to toss a large inflated ball into opposite goals resembling baskets.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• WASTE
  the kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosti, G. wüst, OS. w, D. woest, 1. Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. The dismal situation waste and wild. Milton. His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into
• WASTEFUL
  1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as; wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. 2. Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful
• RECEPTACLE
  1. That which serves, or is used, fro receiving and containing something, as a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository. O sacred receptacle of my joys! Shak. The apex of the flower stalk, from which the organs of the flower grow, or into
• BASKETRY
  The art of making baskets; also, baskets, taken collectively.
• BASKETFUL
  As much as a basket will contain.
• PAPERY
  Like paper; having the thinness or consistence of paper. Gray.
• WASTER
  1. One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal. He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. Prov. xviii. 9. Sconces are great wasters
• WASTEWEIR
  An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like.
• WASTEBOOK
  A book in which rough entries of transactions are made, previous to their being carried into the journal.
• PAPER
  1. A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wood, or other fibrous material, which is first reduced to pulp, then molded, pressed, and dried.
• BASKET
  1. A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. "Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow." Dyer. 2. The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches.
• WASTENESS
  1. The quality or state of being waste; a desolate state or condition; desolation. A day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness. Zeph. i. 15. 2. That which is waste; a desert; a waste. Through woods and wasteness wide him daily sought.
• WASTEBASKET
  A basket used in offices, libraries, etc., as a receptacle for waste paper.
• PAPERWEIGHT
  See N
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• BREADBASKET
  The stomach. S. Foote.
• FOREWASTE
  See GASCOIGNE
• CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
  Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.
• BROMIDE PAPER; BROMID PAPER
  A sensitized paper coated with gelatin impregnated with bromide of silver, used in contact printing and in enlarging.
• CAPPAPER
  See N
• BLOTTING PAPER
  A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.
• NOTE PAPER
  Writing paper, not exceeding in size, when folded once, five by eight inches.
• CASSE PAPER
  Broken paper; the outside quires of a ream.
• ALPHA PAPER
  A sensitized paper for obtaining positives by artificial light. It is coated with gelatin containing silver bromide and chloride.
• FORWASTE
  To desolate or lay waste utterly. Spenser.