castoffとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

cast off (third-person singular simple present casts off, present participle casting off, simple past and past participle cast off or casted off)

1. (transitive) To discard or reject something.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.

   • 2016 February 7, Michael Barbaro, “Once Impervious, Marco Rubio Is Diminished by a Caustic Chris Christie”, in The New York Times‎:

     Mr. Christie, who as a presidential candidate has frequently suppressed his most pugilistic instincts, cast off any restraint and did what he does best: slice and slash.

2. (ambitransitive, nautical) To let go (a cable or rope securing a vessel to a buoy, wharf, etc.) so that the vessel may make way.
3. (intransitive, knitting) To finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them securely from the needle.
4. (printing, historical) To estimate the amount of space required by the type used for the given copy.
   • 2012, Christa Jansohn, Problems of Editing, page 102:

     To conserve type, copy was "cast off"; that is, type needed for the initial pages was estimated so that the pages need not be composed in the same sequence as the copy.

同意語

• (knitting): bind off

参考

• cast on
• castoff
• offthrow

アナグラム

• off-cast, offcast

形容詞

cast-off

1. Alternative form of castoff.

名詞

cast-off (plural cast-offs)

1. Alternative form of castoff.

アナグラム

• off-cast, offcast