reject
verbosustantivocorriente en diálogos
- Reino Unido//ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkt//
- Estados Unidos//ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkt//
- Estados Unidos//ɹə-//
- Estados Unidos//ˈɹiːd͡ʒɛkt//
- Australia//ɹəˈd͡ʒekt//
- Australia//ˈɹiːd͡ʒekt//
To refuse to accept; to forswear.
verbo
- 1
To refuse to accept; to forswear.
She even rejected my improved offer.
One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
- 2
To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
- 3
To refuse a romantic advance.
I've been rejected three times this week.
It's unexpected / It usually is / When you're rejected / Or you take a hit
Etimología
From Late Middle English rejecten, from Latin reiectus, past participle of reicere (“to throw back”), from re- (“back”) + iacere (“to throw”). Displaced native Old English āweorpan (literally “to throw out”).
sustantivo
- 1
Something that is rejected.
Almost all line segments will be trivial accepts or trivial rejects, so the above covers the vast majority of cases.
- 2
jergaAn unpopular person.
- 3
A rejected defective product in a production line.
In all of India, China, Africa, and much of the southern American continent, those who had the leisure and wallet for fashion […] would have killed for the street merchandise of Manhattan, as also for […] the reject china and designer-label bargains to be found in downtown discount emporia.
- 4
A rejected takeoff.
Formas
- plural
- rejects
- pasado
- rejected
- participio
- rejected
- gerundio
- rejecting
- 3.ª persona del singular
- rejects
reject · To refuse to accept; to forswear.
rejecting · An act of rejection.rejection · The act of rejecting.rejoice · To be very happy, be delighted, exult; to feel joy.