{"id":5775,"date":"2013-05-27T09:22:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T23:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=5775"},"modified":"2016-02-23T16:18:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T05:18:30","slug":"waste-or-waist-monday-meanings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2013\/05\/waste-or-waist-monday-meanings\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding lots of waste or a big waist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s meanings were inspired by a blog post where the word waist was used instead of waste. In this instance, I pointed out the error and the blogger was able to fix the post.<\/p>\n

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A waist goes in, like the provernial hourglass figure, so maybe this image will help you remember which wasit to waste!<\/p><\/div>\n

waist<\/strong> <\/span>{noun}: the area bewteen a person’s rib cage and hips; the narrow area of any object that widens at both ends; the part of clothing that covers or sits on a person’s waist
\nWomen used to wear corsets to have a smaller waist than was healthy.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

waste<\/span><\/strong> {verb}: to use, consume or lose something carelessly or thoughtlessly
\nBeing careless about turning taps off leads Jack to waste a lot of water.<\/em>
\nDon’t waste bloggers time when offering guest posts<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0Hmm, so how to remember which waist\/waste is which? Just think of that little i in the middle of a waist being like the smaller part of a shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s meanings were inspired by a blog post where the word waist was used instead of waste. In this instance, I pointed out the error and the blogger was able to fix the post. waist {noun}: the area bewteen a person’s rib cage and hips; the narrow area of any object that widens at both […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[297,1629,1628,132],"class_list":["post-5775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-meanings","tag-definition","tag-monday-meanings-2","tag-waist","tag-waste"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5775"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6674,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775\/revisions\/6674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}