| waste management | Disposal, processing, controlling, recycling, and reusing the solid, liquid, and gaseous wastes of plants, animals, humans, and other organisms. It includes control within a closed ecological system to maintain a habitable environment. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| waste products | Debris resulting from a process that is of no further use to the system producing it. The concept includes materials discharged from or stored in a system in inert form as a by-product of vital activities. (12 Dec 1998) |
| waste streams | Unused solid or liquid by- products of a process. (05 Dec 1998) |
| wasted ventilation | That part of the pulmonary ventilation which is ineffective in exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide with pulmonary capillary blood; calculated as physiologic dead space multiplied by respiratory frequency. (05 Mar 2000) |
| 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." (Spenser) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wasting | Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. <medicine> Wasting palsy, progressive muscular atrophy. See Progressive. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wasting disease | A graft versus host reaction in mice first observed following intravenous injection of allogeneic spleen cells into newborn animals. Synonym: wasting disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wasting palsy | A serious neurologic disease that results from the progressive degeneration of the motor neurons. (27 Sep 1997) |
| wasting paralysis | A serious neurologic disease that results from the progressive degeneration of the motor neurons. (27 Sep 1997) |
| wasting syndrome | <syndrome> A condition characterised by loss of ten percent of normal weight without obvious cause. The weight loss is largely the result of depletion of the protein in lean body mass and represents a metabolic derangement frequent during AIDS. (31 Dec 1997) |
| watch | 1. The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or preventive vigilance; formerly, a watching or guarding by night. "Shepherds keeping watch by night." (Milton) "All the long night their mournful watch they keep." (Addison) Watch was formerly distinguished from ward, the former signifying a watching or guarding by night, and the latter a watching, guarding, or protecting by day Hence, they were not unfrequently used together, especially in the phrase to keep watch and ward, to denote continuous and uninterrupted vigilance or protection, or both watching and guarding. This distinction is now rarely recognised, watch being used to signify a watching or guarding both by night and by day, and ward, which is now rarely used, having simply the meaning of guard, or protection, without reference to time. "Still, when she slept, he kept both watch and ward." (Spenser) "Ward, guard, or custodia, is chiefly applied to the daytime, in order to apprehend rioters, and robbers on the highway . . . Watch, is properly applicable to the night only, . . . And it begins when ward ends, and ends when that begins." (Blackstone) 2. One who watches, or those who watch; a watchman, or a body of watchmen; a sentry; a guard. "Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch; go your way, make it as sure as ye can." (Matt. Xxvii. 65) 3. The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept. "He upbraids Iago, that he made him Brave me upon the watch." (Shak) 4. The period of the night during which a person does duty as a sentinel, or guard; the time from the placing of a sentinel till his relief; hence, a division of the night. "I did stand my watch upon the hill." (Shak) "Might we but hear . . . Or whistle from the lodge, or village cock Count the night watches to his feathery dames." (Milton) 5. A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring. Watches are often distinguished by the kind of escapement used, as an anchor watch, a lever watch, a chronometer watch, etc. (see the Note under Escapement, 3); also, by the kind of case, as a gold or silver watch, an open-faced watch, a hunting watch, or hunter, etc. 6. An allotted portion of time, usually four hour for standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty. Cf. Dogwatch. That part, usually one half, of the officers and crew, who together attend to the working of a vessel for an allotted time, usually four hours. The watches are designated as the port watch, and the starboard watch. Anchor watch, a small, handy purchase, consisting of a tailed double block, and a single block with a hook. Origin: OE. Wacche, AS. Waecce, fr. Wacian to wake; akin to D. Wacht, waak, G. Wacht, wache. See Wake. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| watches | <botany> The leaves of Saraceia flava. See Trumpets. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| watchful | Full of watch; vigilant; attentive; careful to observe closely; observant; cautious; with of before the thing to be regulated or guarded; as, to be watchful of one's behavior; and with against before the thing to be avoided; as, to be watchful against the growth of vicious habits. "Many a watchful night." . "Happy watchful shepherds." . "'Twixt prayer and watchful love his heart dividing." (Keble) Synonym: Vigilant, attentive, cautious, observant, circumspect, wakeful, heedful. Watch"fully, Watch"fulness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| watchmaker's cramp | An occupational dystonia characterised by spasm of the orbicularis palpebrarum muscle from holding the lens to the eye and spasm of the muscles of the hand from performing the delicate movements of watch repairing. (05 Mar 2000) |
| watchman | 1. One set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel. 2. Specifically, one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night. <zoology> Watchman beetle, the European dor. Watchman's clock, a watchman's detector in which the apparatus for recording the times of visiting several stations is contained within a single clock. Watchman's detector, or Watchman's time detector, an apparatus for recording the time when a watchman visits a station on his rounds. Watchman's rattle, an instrument having at the end of a handle a revolving arm, which, by the action of a strong spring upon cogs, produces, when in motion, a loud, harsh, rattling sound. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia |
A rare cancer of the lymph cells that causes the body to produce abnormal levels of plasma cells (plasmacytosis) and lymphocytes (lymphocytosis) in the bone marrow. Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia may also cause a decrease in the number of red blood cells (anemia) and enlargement of the liver (hepatomegaly), spleen (splenomegaly), or glands (adenopathy).
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| wale |
a wooden or metal piece or assemblage placed inside and/or outside the wall of a cofferdam, crib, or similar structure, usually in a horizontal position to maintain shape and increase rigidity, stability, and strength. An assemblage of wale pieces is termed a waling
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| watchful waiting |
Careful observation without immediate treatment.
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| wave |
A phenomenon that does not have mass and therefore does not occupy space. Waves travel through space.
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| wavelength |
The distance between repeating points on a wave.
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| WA | leave abruptly, often in protest or anger |
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| WA | stop work in order to press demands |
| WA | leave, usually as an expression of disapproval |
| WA | (of e.g. closets or refrigerators) extending very far enough back to allow a person to enter |
| WA | plays a small part in a dramatic production |
| WA | not capable of or especially not involving speech or spoken lines |
| WA | close enough to be walked to |
| WA | an apartment building without an elevator |
| WA | an apartment in a building without an elevator |
| WA | a building with no elevator |
| WA | an apartment in a building without an elevator |
| WA | (Australia) nomadic excursions into the bush made by an Aborigine |