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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Waste \Waste\, a. [OE. wast, OF. wast, from L. vastus, influenced by the kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosti, G. w[81]st, OS. w[?]sti, D. woest, AS. w[emac]ste. Cf. {Vast}.] 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 the waste darkness of futurity. --Sir W. Scott. 2. Lying unused; unproductive; worthless; valueless; refuse; rejected; as, waste land; waste paper. But his waste words returned to him in vain. --Spenser. Not a waste or needless sound, Till we come to holier ground. --Milton. Ill day which made this beauty waste. --Emerson. 3. Lost for want of occupiers or use; superfluous. And strangled with her waste fertility. --Milton. {Waste gate}, a gate by which the superfluous water of a reservoir, or the like, is discharged. {Waste paper}. See under {Paper}. {Waste pipe}, a pipe for carrying off waste, or superfluous, water or other fluids. Specifically: (a) (Steam Boilers) An escape pipe. See under {Escape}. (b) (Plumbing) The outlet pipe at the bottom of a bowl, tub, sink, or the like. {Waste steam}. (a) Steam which escapes the air. (b) Exhaust steam. {Waste trap}, a trap for a waste pipe, as of a sink. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Waste \Waste\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wasted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wasting}.] [OE. wasten, OF. waster, guaster, gaster, F. g[83]ter to spoil, L. vastare to devastate, to lay waste, fr. vastus waste, desert, uncultivated, ravaged, vast, but influenced by a kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosten, G. w[81]sten, AS. w[emac]stan. See {Waste}, a.] 1. To bring to ruin; to devastate; to desolate; to destroy. Thou barren ground, whom winter's wrath hath wasted, Art made a mirror to behold my plight. --Spenser. The Tiber Insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds. --Dryden. 2. To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out. Until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness. --Num. xiv. 33. O, were I able To waste it all myself, and leave ye none! --Milton. Here condemned To waste eternal days in woe and pain. --Milton. Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of age daily grew on him. --Robertson. 3. 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. The younger son gathered all together, and . . . wasted his substance with riotous living. --Luke xv. 13. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. --Gray. 4. (Law) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay. Syn: To squander; dissipate; lavish; desolate. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wastethrift \Waste"thrift`\, n. A spendthrift. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{To make one's way}, to advance in life by one's personal efforts. {To make way}. See under {Make}, v. t. {Ways and means}. (a) Methods; resources; facilities. (b) (Legislation) Means for raising money; resources for revenue. {Way leave}, permission to cross, or a right of way across, land; also, rent paid for such right. [Eng] {Way of the cross} (Eccl.), the course taken in visiting in rotation the stations of the cross. See {Station}, n., 7 (c) . {Way of the rounds} (Fort.), a space left for the passage of the rounds between a rampart and the wall of a fortified town. {Way pane}, a pane for cartage in irrigated land. See {Pane}, n., 4. [Prov. Eng.] {Way passenger}, a passenger taken up, or set down, at some intermediate place between the principal stations on a line of travel. {Ways of God}, his providential government, or his works. {Way station}, an intermediate station between principal stations on a line of travel, especially on a railroad. {Way train}, a train which stops at the intermediate, or way, stations; an accommodation train. {Way warden}, the surveyor of a road. Syn: Street; highway; road. Usage: {Way}, {Street}, {Highway}, {Road}. Way is generic, denoting any line for passage or conveyance; a highway is literally one raised for the sake of dryness and convenience in traveling; a road is, strictly, a way for horses and carriages; a street is, etymologically, a paved way, as early made in towns and cities; and, hence, the word is distinctively applied to roads or highways in compact settlements. All keep the broad highway, and take delight With many rather for to go astray. --Spenser. There is but one road by which to climb up. --Addison. When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. --Milton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Weight \Weight\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Weighted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Weighting}.] 1. To load with a weight or weights; to load down; to make heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a horse or a jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle. The arrows of satire, . . . weighted with sense. --Coleridge. 2. (Astron. & Physics) To assign a weight to; to express by a number the probable accuracy of, as an observation. See {Weight of observations}, under {Weight}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wistit \Wis"tit\, n. [Prob. from native name: cf. F. ouistiti.] (Zo[94]l.) A small South American monkey; a marmoset. [Written also {wistiti}, and {ouistiti}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wistit \Wis"tit\, n. [Prob. from native name: cf. F. ouistiti.] (Zo[94]l.) A small South American monkey; a marmoset. [Written also {wistiti}, and {ouistiti}.] | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
West Athens, CA (CDP, FIPS 84116) Location: 33.92335 N, 118.30237 W Population (1990): 8859 (2643 housing units) Area: 3.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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West Edmeston, NY Zip code(s): 13485 | |
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West Hattiesburg, MS (CDP, FIPS 78890) Location: 31.31881 N, 89.37502 W Population (1990): 5450 (2153 housing units) Area: 18.3 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
West Hyattsville, MD Zip code(s): 20782 | |
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West Odessa, TX (CDP, FIPS 77728) Location: 31.84224 N, 102.49826 W Population (1990): 16568 (5978 housing units) Area: 170.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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West Otis, MA Zip code(s): 01245 | |
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West Whittier-Los Nietos, CA (CDP, FIPS 84921) Location: 33.97780 N, 118.06755 W Population (1990): 24164 (6927 housing units) Area: 6.8 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Westwood, CA (CDP, FIPS 84928) Location: 40.30317 N, 121.00392 W Population (1990): 2017 (978 housing units) Area: 14.8 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Westwood, IA (city, FIPS 84835) Location: 40.96480 N, 91.62721 W Population (1990): 104 (38 housing units) Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Westwood, KS (city, FIPS 77500) Location: 39.03990 N, 94.61502 W Population (1990): 1772 (803 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Westwood, KY (CDP, FIPS 82146) Location: 38.48117 N, 82.67795 W Population (1990): 5300 (2168 housing units) Area: 10.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Westwood, KY (city, FIPS 82164) Location: 38.27980 N, 85.58539 W Population (1990): 734 (230 housing units) Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 41101 Westwood, MA Zip code(s): 02090 Westwood, MI (CDP, FIPS 86380) Location: 42.30345 N, 85.63010 W Population (1990): 8957 (4211 housing units) Area: 7.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Westwood, MO (village, FIPS 79054) Location: 38.64690 N, 90.43437 W Population (1990): 309 (130 housing units) Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Westwood, NJ (borough, FIPS 80270) Location: 40.98839 N, 74.03112 W Population (1990): 10446 (4260 housing units) Area: 6.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Westwood, OH Zip code(s): 45248 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Westwood Hills, KS (city, FIPS 77525) Location: 39.03905 N, 94.61057 W Population (1990): 383 (173 housing units) Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Westwood Lakes, FL (CDP, FIPS 77075) Location: 25.72245 N, 80.37360 W Population (1990): 11522 (3420 housing units) Area: 4.5 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
weighted search {search terms} in the documents being searched. Weighted search is often used by {search engines}. It produces a numerical score for each possible document. A document's score depends on the frequency of each {search term} in that document compared with the overall frequency of that term in the entire corpus of documents. A common approach is called tf.idf which stands for term frequency * inverse document frequency. Term frequency means "the more often a term occurs in a document, the more important it is in describing that document." {http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/cmpsci646/ir4/tsld034.htm} Inverse document frequency means the more documents a term appears in, the less important the term is. A simple weighted search is just a list of search terms, for example: car automobile Weighted search is often contrasted with {boolean search}. It is possible to have a search that syntactically is a boolean search but which also does a weighted search. See also {query expansion}. For a detailed technical discussion see Chapter 5, "Search Strategies", in the reference below. [{"Information Retrieval", C. J. van Rijsbergen, (http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/Keith/Chapter.5/Ch.5.html)}]. (1999-08-28) |