defunctとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /dɪˈfʌŋkt/
• (米国発音) also IPA^(key): /ˌdiˈfʌŋkt/

形容詞

defunct (comparative more defunct, superlative most defunct)

1. (now まれに) Deceased, dead.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:

     The organs, though defunct and dead before,
     Break up their drowsy grave and newly move

   • 1822, Lord Byron (translator), Morgante

     The boar, defunct, lay tripp'd up, near.

2. No longer in use, inactive.
3. (computing) Specifically, of a program: that has terminated but is still shown in the list of processes because the parent process that created it is still running and has not yet reaped it. See also zombie, zombie process.
4. (business) No longer in business or service.
5. (linguistics) (of a language) No longer spoken.

同意語

• (no longer in use): antiquated, disused, outdated; see also Thesaurus:obsolete

動詞

defunct (三人称単数 現在形 defuncts, 現在分詞 defuncting, 過去形および過去分詞形 defuncted)

1. To make defunct.

名詞

defunct

1. The dead person (referred to).
   • 1817 September, in Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, volume 1, page 617:

     […] he saw Robert Johnston, pannel, come out of the cott-house with the fork in his hand, and pass by Alexander Fall and the deponent; heard the pannell say, he had sticked the dog, and he would stick the whelps too; whereupon the pannell run after the defunct’s son with the fork in his hand, […]

関連する語

• function
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