orts
noun
Roget 645:
inutility;
uselessness
etc.
adj.;
inefficacy†,
futility;
ineptitude,
inaptitude;
unsubservience†;
inadequacy
etc.
(insufficiency)
640;
inefficiency,
etc.
(incompetence)
158;
unskillfulness
etc.
699;
disservice;
unfruitfulness
etc.
(unproductiveness)..
169;
labor in vain,
labor lost,
labor of Sisyphus;
lost trouble,
lost labor;
work of Penelope;
sleeveless errand,
wild goose chase,
mere farce.
tautology
etc.
(repetition)
104;
supererogation
etc.
(redundancy)
641.
vanitas vanitatum [Lat.],
vanity,
inanity,
worthlessness,
nugacity†;
triviality
etc.
(unimportance)
643.
caput mortuum [Lat.],
waste paper,
dead letter;
blunt tool.
litter,
rubbish,
junk,
lumber,
odds and ends,
cast-off clothes;
button top;
shoddy;
rags,
orts†,
trash,
refuse,
sweepings,
scourings,
offscourings†,
waste,
rubble,
debris,
detritus;
stubble,
leavings;
broken meat;
dregs
etc.
(dirt)
653;
weeds,
tares;
rubbish heap,
dust hole;
rudera†,
deads†.
fruges consumere natus [Lat.]
[Horace].
etc.
(drone)
683
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Roget 40:
remainder,
residue;
remains,
remanent,
remnant,
rest,
relic;
leavings,
heeltap†,
odds and ends,
cheesepairings†,
candle ends,
orts†;
residuum;
dregs
etc.
(dirt)
653;
refuse
etc.
(useless)
645;
stubble,
result,
educt†;
fag-end;
ruins,
wreck,
skeleton. ,
stump;
alluvium.
surplus,
overplus†,
excess;
balance,
complement;
superplus†,
surplusage†;
superfluity
etc.
(redundancy)
641;
survival,
survivance†.
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