Trashとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: trăsh, IPA: /tɹæʃ/
• 韻: -æʃ

名詞

trash (countable and uncountable, plural trashes)

1. (chiefly Canada, US) Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
   • 1828, Walter Savage Landor, “Robert Southey and Porson”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

     A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin.

2. (chiefly Canada, US, metonymic) A container into which things are discarded.

   Synonyms: trashcan, trash can, trashbin, trash bin, garbage can, rubbish bin, bin

   Coordinate terms: recycle bin, recycling bin, recycling

3. (chiefly Canada, US, figurative) Something worthless or of poor quality.

   When your life is trash, you don't have much to lose.

4. A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.

   Synonyms: garbage, rubbish (chiefly British)

5. (chiefly Southern United States, agriculture) The disused stems, leaves, or vines of a crop, sometimes mixed with weeds, which will either be plowed in as green manure or be removed by raking, grazing, or burning.

   Coordinate terms: straw, stover, shaw

6. (agriculture, uncountable) Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.

   Synonym: scrap

7. (chiefly Canada, US, slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
8. (chiefly Canada, US, fandom slang, humorous, uncountable) A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.

   Near-synonyms: stan; see also Thesaurus:fan

   I am Harry Potter trash.

9. (computing) Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.

   Synonym: (in Microsoft Windows) recycle bin

   Drag the unwanted message to the trash.

使用する際の注意点

• (garbage, rubbish): The noun is uncountable in Inner Circle Englishes. The plural trashes is found for example in Indian English.

同意語

• garbage (1-3), junk (1,3), refuse (1), rubbish, waste
• (container): trash can
• (storage for deleted files): recycle bin (in Microsoft Windows)
• See also Thesaurus:trash

派生語

動詞

trash (third-person singular simple present trashes, present participle trashing, simple past and past participle trashed)

1. (US) To discard.
   • 1989 December 18, InfoWorld, page 66:

     Fatcat also fails to warn you that unformatting will trash any files copied to the unintentionally formatted disk.

2. (US) To make into a mess.

   The burglars trashed the house.

3. (US) To beat soundly in a game.
4. (transitive) To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or disrespect.
   • 20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along?

     It is a British tradition for the media to celebrate an upcoming royal wedding by trashing the incoming in-laws, from Diana’s stepmother, Raine Spencer, to Kate Middleton’s Uncle Gary and his memorably named Ibizan villa, Maison de Bang Bang.

5. To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.

   Synonym: detrash

   to trash the rattoons of sugar cane

   • 1793, Bryan Edwards, History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies:

     the ancient practice of trashing ratoons i.e. stripping them of their outward leaves

6. To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.
   • c. 1613 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Tragedie of Bonduca”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     I fled too; But not so fast , —your jewel had been lost then, Young Hengo there; he trashed ' me

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:junk

派生語

• trash out

参考

recycle bin

参照

アナグラム

• Arths, HARTs, Harts, Raths, Stahr, harts, raths, shart, tahrs, thars