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動詞

cast off (三人称単数 現在形 casts off, 現在分詞 casting off, 過去形 cast off または casted off, 過去分詞 cast 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.

2. (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To let go (a cable または 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.

別の表記

• cast-off