| 单词 | castoff |
| 释义 | castoff in American English (ˈkæstˌɔf) adjective 1. thrown away; discarded; abandoned noun 2. a person or thing cast off 3. Printing an estimate of the lines or pages of type to be set from a given amount of copy castoff in American English (ˈkæstˌɔf, -ˌɑf, ˈkɑːst-) adjective 1. thrown away; rejected; discarded castoff clothing noun 2. a person or thing that has been cast off 3. Printing the estimate by a compositor of how many pages copy will occupy when set in type Word origin [1735–45; adj., n. use of v. phrase cast off ]This word is first recorded in the period 1735–45. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: editorial, loggia, stasis, tandem, tutorialExamples of 'castoff' in a sentence |
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