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動詞

tear off (third-person singular simple present tears off, present participle tearing off, simple past tore off, past participle torn off)

1. (transitive) To rip away from; to pull a piece from forcibly.

   Do not tear off the price tag if you want to return that shirt.

2. (intransitive) To become detached by tearing or ripping.
3. (intransitive) To leave or depart rapidly.

   The fugitive tore off down the alley.

同意語

• (to rip away from): detach, remove, rip off; see also Thesaurus:disconnect
• (to leave or depart rapidly): flee; see also Thesaurus:flee

名詞

tear off (plural tear offs)

1. Alternative form of tear-off.

名詞

tear-off (plural tear-offs)

1. A strip or sheet of paper, plastic film, etc., that is designed to be removed by tearing or pulling off.

   My visor was covered in mud, and I had used up all the tear-offs.

2. (graphical user interface) A pull-down menu that can be detached from its parent menu bar and dragged around the screen.
   • 2009, John K. Ousterhout, Ken Jones, Tcl and the Tk Toolkit:

     Tear-offs are rarely found in modern interfaces, though, so typically you'll want to disable the tear-off feature by default.

3. (programming) A COM (Component Object Model) interface that is instantiated only when explicitly requested.
   • 1998, Don Box, Essential COM, page 183:

     This makes tearoffs especially risky for objects that may be accessed remotely. Given all of the potential pitfalls of tearoffs, a logical question might be, "when are tearoffs appropriate?" There is no absolute answer; […]

別の表記

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形容詞

tear-off (not comparable)

1. Designed to be removed by tearing or pulling off.

   a tear-off strip, a tear-off protector