| 单词 |
discarding |
| 释义 |
discarding, vbl. n.|dɪˈskɑːdɪŋ|
[f. discard v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb discard.
1. Cards. The rejection or throwing out of a card from the hand. Also attrib.
1593Peele Chron. Edw. I (1829) I. 129 Since the King hath put us among the discarding cards, and as it were turned us with deuces and treys out of the deck. 1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits viii. (1596) 112 To know..the skill of discarding. 1778C. Jones Hoyle's Games Impr., Piquet 119 By which Manner of discarding, you have a Probability of scoring fifteen Points for your Quint in Diamonds.
2. Rejection, abandonment; dismissal from employment, discharge. In quot. 1840 concr. That which is discarded.
1660T. M. Hist. Independ. iv. 55 A hot-spur zealot..whose ambition made old Nol lay him aside as dangerous, and that dishonourable discarding created him a desperate Enemy to the Cromwelian..name. 1663J. Spencer Prodigies (1665) 306 The discarding of that rash Principle. 1840Browning Sordello vi. 444 Then subject..to thy cruce the world's discardings. |
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