waste product
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2.9
- noun
- /ˈweɪst ˈprɒdʌkt/
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producto de desecho
- We collect the waste product from the livestock and keep it in a holding system out back.
- waste product of metabolism
- a hazardous waste product
- other waste products
That's because it's during sleep that the brain clears out waste products and builds memory.
- That's because it's during sleep that the brain clears out waste products and builds memory.
- And yeah, so it's really just taking a waste product and turning and getting value from there.
- So unlike like other refiners, none of the oil or waste products were dumped.
- We, we, we, we give you a grant to, to keep a waste product out of, out of the groundwater.
- There's a lot of methane on Mars, which means something is alive and something is creating waste product.
- And you're going to say this particular molecule is is a waste product that's accumulating that is causing this disease.
- So one example is in the basement of the Shard, we used GGBS, which is ground granulated blast furnace slag, which is a waste product from the steel industry.
- And so the waste product of a fusion reactor is helium, not nuclear waste that we find in a commercial fission plant.
- When you get down here and you see this word, alkaline phosphatase, Alkaline phosphatase, for lack of better words, is a is a liver waste product.
- Because like what was happening is so humans have a lot of heavy metals, then their waste product goes to fertilize food.
- You have got to be able to hold on at a very high waste product production level as well as a high demand for energy and then bring it down.
Examples
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So one example is in the basement of the Shard, we used GGBS, which is ground granulated blast furnace slag, which is a waste product from the steel industry.
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The major advantage of regenerable systems is the elimination of waste products.
Academic text (1990) -
And yeah, so it's really just taking a waste product and turning and getting value from there.
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There will be no waste products, just as in nature there are no waste products.
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So a system where we're using waste products from various sources and feeding those in to the actual plant development.
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For every waste product, it seemed there was some species out there willing to consume it.
Fiction book (1990) -
Carbon dioxide is the largest single waste product that we produce as an industrial society.
Academic text (1995) -
For example, more consumption leads to more waste products, which then lead to negative impacts like pollution and climate change.
Academic text (2012) -
Waste products are formed from the breakdown of tissues and from food eaten in the daily diet.
Academic text (2012) -
Carbon dioxide is the largest single waste product that we produce as an industrial society.
Synonyms
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Material that people throw away after use, like food or packaging
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Things people throw away because they are not wanted
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3.6
A product made while making something else, often unwanted
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Things like old or broken items that are thrown away
Things people throw away because they are not useful
How Useful
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- Specialized
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a substance produced and discarded as useless' is directly compositional from 'waste' (refuse) + 'product' (an output of a process); the phrase names an output that is waste. This is a common, literal compound used across languages and registers, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Waste product comes from the simple picture of a factory or a body making something useful and also making leftovers. The word product is what is made and waste is what is not wanted, so a waste product is the leftover a process or body throws away, which is why it means 'something produced and thrown away because it is not wanted'.