Pop-Up Car, hog parking, emasculating,

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This week, one senior Google exec declared that smartphones are "emasculating," while another said there was no need for physical stores. Yet Google makes smartphones and has pop-up stores. Confusing? Chris Matyszczyk. by Chris Matyszczyk. March 3 ...

hog
v., hogged, hog·ging, hogs. v.tr.

1. Informal. To take more than one's share of: Don't hog the couch.
2. To cause (the back) to arch like that of a hog.
3. To cut (a horse's mane) short and bristly.
4. To shred (waste wood, for example) by machine.

emasculate

Line breaks: emas¦cu|late

Pronunciation: /ɪˈmaskjʊleɪt 

  

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VERB

[WITH OBJECT]

• 1(usually as adjective emasculated) Deprive (a man) of his male role or identity:he feels emasculated, because he cannot control his sons' behaviour

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• 1.1• archaic Castrate (a man or male animal).

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• 1.2Botany Remove the anthers from (a flower).

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• 2Make (someone or something) weaker or less effective:the refusal to allow them to testify effectively emasculated the committee

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Derivatives

emasculation

Pronunciation: /-ˈleɪʃ(ə)n/

NOUN

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emasculator

NOUN

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emasculatory

Pronunciation: /-lət(ə)ri/

ADJECTIVE

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Origin

early 17th century: from Latin emasculat- 'castrated', from the verb emasculare, from e- (variant of ex-, expressing a change of state) + masculus 'male'.

emasculate音節

e • mas • cu • late

emasculateの変化形

emasculated (過去形) • emasculated (過去分詞) • emasculating (現在分詞) • emasculates (三人称単数現在)

emasculateの慣用句

emasculation, （全1件）

[動] 〔imǽskjulèit〕 (他)((しばしば受身))

1 …を去勢する.

2 …の（男性的な）活力［気力］を奪う, を柔弱にする；〈文章・法律などの〉迫力［効力］を弱める, 骨抜きにする.

━━[形] 〔imǽskjult〕 去勢された, 柔弱な；骨抜きにされた.

e・màs・cu・lá・tion

[名][U]去勢；無力化, 骨抜き；無気力, 柔弱, 惰弱.

e・más・cu・là・tor

[名]

pop-up

  音節

póp-ùp

[名]

1 《野球》＝pop fly.

2 飛び出す絵本.

━━[形]

1 〈トースターなどが〉ポンと飛び上がる；〈絵本が〉開くと絵が立体的に飛び出す；〈装置が〉必要なときに飛び出てくる.

2 《コンピュータ》〈メニューが〉画面に現れて選択できる.