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Waste of material   /weɪst əv mətˈɪriəl/   Listen
Waste of material

noun
1.
A useless consumption of material.






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"Waste of material" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the fork of a scrub apple-tree. Its depth from the rim to the base, viewed from the outside, is about five inches, at least two inches longer than necessity would seem to require, and apparently with a great waste of material in the lower portion, as the hollow with the pretty spotted eggs is of only the ordinary depth of about two inches, thus hardly reaching half-way to the base. Let us examine it closely. There certainly is a suspicious line or division across its upper portion, about an inch below the rim, and extending ...
— My Studio Neighbors • William Hamilton Gibson

... me that Nature had originally forgotten the nasal organ, and then returning to complete the work had taken between finger and thumb a piece of flesh and pinched it, thus forming the nose rather high up on the face, while the waste of material below goes to make ...
— The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) • Harry Furniss



Words linked to "Waste of material" :   waste, dissipation, wastefulness



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