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語源

From Late 中期英語 rejecten, from Latin rēiectus, past participle of reicere (“to throw back”), from re- (“back”) + iacere (“to throw”). Displaced native 古期英語 āweorpan (literally “to throw out”).

発音

• (verb) enPR: rĭjĕktʹ, IPA: /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkt/
• (noun) enPR: rēʹjĕkt, IPA: /ˈɹiː.d͡ʒɛkt/
• ハイフネーション: re‧ject
• 韻: -ɛkt

動詞

reject (third-person singular simple present rejects, present participle rejecting, simple past and past participle rejected)

1. (transitive) To refuse to accept; to forswear.

   She even rejected my improved offer.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.

2. (basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
3. (transitive) To refuse a romantic advance.

   I've been rejected three times this week.

   • 2011, Lenka, Ben H. Allen, “Roll with the Punches”, in Two‎, performed by Lenka:

     It's unexpected / It usually is / When you're rejected / Or you take a hit

同意語

(refuse to accept):

• abjure
• abnegate
• decline
• deny
• disown
• refuse
• repudiate
• say no
• turn down
• dismiss
• discount

反意語

(antonym(s) of “refuse to accept”):

• accept
• take up

派生語

名詞

reject (plural rejects)

1. Something that is rejected.
   • 1996, Jim Blinn, Jim Blinn's Corner: A Trip Down the Graphics Pipeline, page 127:

     Almost all line segments will be trivial accepts or trivial rejects, so the above covers the vast majority of cases.

2. (derogatory, slang) An unpopular person.
3. (colloquial) A rejected defective product in a production line.
   • 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 6:

     In all of India, China, Africa, and much of the southern American continent, those who had the leisure and wallet for fashion […] would have killed for the street merchandise of Manhattan, as also for […] the reject china and designer-label bargains to be found in downtown discount emporia.

4. (aviation) A rejected takeoff.

同意語

• (something that is rejected): castaway
• (an unpopular person): outcast, castaway, alien
• (rejected takeoff): RTO

派生語