✳ waste (noun)

Sounds:
- /weɪst/

Forms:
- wastes (plural)

waste (noun) senses:
1. Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
2. Excrement or urine.
3. A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
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✳ waste (adj)

Forms:
- more waste (comparative)
- most waste (superlative)

waste (adj) senses:
1. (MTE, slang, derogatory) Useless and contemptible.
2. (now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited.
3. Barren; desert.
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✳ waste (verb)

Forms:
- wastes (present, singular, third-person)
- wasting (participle, present)
- wasted (participle, past)
- wasted (past)
- waste (infinitive)

waste (verb) senses:
1. (transitive) To devastate; to destroy.
2. (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
3. (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
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Audio (US)

🗣 Conversation 🗣

- Do you plan to further your study?
- Yes, I have been always learning the Economics on my own. My dream is to get a master's degree in Economics.
- If you make every effort to the company, you will have a great chance to attend the on-the-job postgraduate. The tuition fee will be financed by our company.
- Really? It is amazing. I will apply for a position in your company.

🌜 Future Perfect Continuous 🌛

By the time the party starts, she will have been cooking for hours.

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✳ middle (noun)

Sounds:
- /ˈmɪdəl/ (US)
- [ˈmɪ.ɾɫ̩] (US)
- [ˈmɪ.dəɫ] (UK)
- [ˈmɪ.dʊ] (UK)
- [ˈmɪ̝.dəɫ] (General-Australian)
- [ˈmɪ̝.dʊ] (General-Australian)
- [ˈmɪ̝.ɾ-] (General-Australian)
- /ˈmɘdɘl/ (New-Zealand)
- [ˈmə.dɯ(ɫ)] (New-Zealand)
- [ˈmə.ɾ-] (New-Zealand)

Forms:
- middles (plural)

middle (noun) senses:
1. A centre, midpoint.
2. The part between the beginning and the end.
3. (cricket) The middle stump.
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✳ middle (adj)

middle (adj) senses:
1. Located in the middle; in between.
2. Central.
3. (grammar) Pertaining to the middle voice.

✳ middle (verb)

Forms:
- middles (present, singular, third-person)
- middling (participle, present)
- middled (participle, past)
- middled (past)

middle (verb) senses:
1. (obsolete) To take a middle view of.
2. (obsolete, nautical, transitive) To double (a rope) into two equal portions; to fold in the middle.

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- plus installation?
- no, my hard drive is easy to remove and replace.

🌜 Present Perfect 🌛

The children have received their presents.

🌜 Past Perfect 🌛

By the time she arrived, we had already made the decision.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

- What would you like for your main dish?
- Steak, please.
- How would you like it?
- Medium rare, please.
- Anything else, sir?
- May I have a glass of red wine, please?
- Of course.