单词 | junked |
释义 | junkedadj.ΚΠ 1793 R. H. Gower Treat. Theory & Pract. Seamanship xii. 94 When the junked part of the machine is amidships of the stern, let the steering ropes be hauled equally taught. 2. Chopped or cut into pieces. Cf. junk v. 1a. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > division by cutting > [adjective] > cut into pieces ychoppidc1430 cutc1440 chopped1538 shorn1597 shared1598 dissected1634 slitted1797 junked1827 1827 Newcastle Mag. Sept. 402/2 After eating enough for two ordinary persons, they set to work and pound the junked beef in a wooden mortar. 1847 Cornwall Royal Gaz. 26 Feb. A few tons of junked fire wood. 1859 Everybody's Jrnl. 15 Oct. 38/2 The rice and bananas, which, with a little junked meat, constituted our sole food. 1971 Canad. Geographer 15 103 Settlers felled and junked trees throughout the winter, and rolled the junked logs together to be burned in the early spring. 3. Discarded, abandoned; scrapped. Cf. junk v. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [adjective] shedc1430 castaway?1542 outcastc1560 discarded1593 moulted1776 out-thrown1869 junked1915 1915 Amer. Gas Light Jrnl. 3 May 277/1 A similar mixer of larger size could not be procured so we took another type from a junked engine. 1942 Washington Post 15 May 12/6 If they need any parts they could call the parts repair man, select parts from the junked cars, the same as we do now from wrecking dealers. 1973 K. Giles File on Death vi. 149 I dare say you can pick up junked bits of weapons. 1990 Dog World Dec. 42/1 What epitomizes the great wasteland out there more than a junked TV, the discarded shell of our technology? 2012 N.Y. Times 16 Aug. a1/5 After the earthquake, Mr. Brice and his wife spent months in a junked car behind a church while their grown children helped clear enough rubble for them to move back. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1793 |
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