
4030 The collection of Dust Furniture assembled
Studio Makkink & Bey
4030 Dust Furniture (Furniture made of vacuum cleaner bags), 2004
commissioned by: Self-initiated
src: http://www.studiomakkinkbey.nl/list/products/4030_dust_furniture
WASTE • verb: waste; 3rd person present: wastes; past tense: wasted; past participle: wasted; gerund or present participle: wasting.
1. (of an area of land, typically an urban one) Not used, cultivated, or built on. “a patch of waste ground”. 2. Use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose. “we can’t afford to waste electricity”. 3. (of time) Pass away. “the years were wasting”.
Synonyms: uncultivated, barren, desert, unproductive, infertile, unfruitful, arid, bare; desolate, solitary, lonely, empty, void, uninhabited, unpopulated; wildsquander, fritter away, misspend, misuse, spend recklessly, throw away, lavish, be wasteful with, dissipate, spend like water, throw around like confetti; go through, run through, exhaust, drain, deplete, burn up, use up, consume; informal blow, splurge.
Origin: Middle English: from Old Northern French wast(e ) (noun), waster (verb), based on Latin vastus ‘unoccupied, uncultivated’.