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Definition of disposable in English:

disposable

adjective dɪˈspəʊzəb(ə)ldəˈspoʊzəb(ə)l
  • 1(of an article) intended to be thrown away after use.

    (物品)一次性的

    disposable nappies

    一次性尿布。

    a disposable razor

    一次性剃刀。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Maybe I shouldn't have used cheap disposable razors.
    • The surgical attire policy at our facility requires wearing disposable head covers.
    • From 1947 until 1961, disposable diapers were a wad of tissue paper sandwiched between two pieces of plastic film.
    • The bleached pulp is then converted into a variety of paper products, including disposable diapers.
    • Keep extra supplies on hand if your system requires disposable filters and special sanitizing solutions.
    • Once disposable nappies were for convenience.
    • Still remember the thrill, in those early days, of discovering scarce URLs; now they're printed on every piece of disposable packaging that I throw in the bin.
    • As if all that were not enough, new scientific research is beginning to throw up other potential hazards with disposable nappies.
    • During the purge I came across a still-functional disposable razor and since I was in a whimsical mood, I proceeded to convert my full beard into a goatee.
    • The girls' version adds a nail file, moisturiser, cotton buds and pads, and eye make-up remover, while the boys get a disposable razor, shaving cream, aftershave and hair gel.
    • Consumers might also welcome a tiered approach to rentals, with cheaper, single-viewing sessions available on disposable disks, he said.
    • Further investigation showed they also contained hospital waste, including disposable syringes and surgical gloves.
    • After they finished they threw their disposable plates and utensils down a chute.
    • Even the razor should be a disposable one, thrown out after use.
    • So he conceived of a line of cheap, disposable razor blades that could be purchased in bulk and discarded before they ever needed sharpening.
    • Men will want either electric or disposable razors, or both.
    • And one of the council's strategies will be to work with parents to try to discourage them from using disposable nappies in favour of reusables.
    • As western products find markets in even the remotest of islands, such items as disposable diapers and syringes litter otherwise lovely beaches.
    • More recently, disposable baths are available from several manufacturers as prepackaged single-use units.
    • Articles such as disposable diapers, bibs, clothing, etc. are disclosed.
    Synonyms
    throwaway, expendable, one-use, non-returnable, replaceable
    paper, plastic
    biodegradable, photodegradable
    1. 1.1 (of a person or idea) able to be dispensed with; easily dismissed.
      (人,观点)可有可无的;可轻易放弃的
      the poor performer is motivated by the fear that he or she is highly disposable

      那个可怜的演员是出于他或她随时会被打发掉的担心。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • There was a time when employees were disposable.
      • Especially if they're disposable - getting rid of the evidence as quickly as you can is crucial to both your nostrils and your sanity.
      • In the age of disposable parents, it turns out you can't blame psychological disorders for what happens in the absence of rules.
      • We're dealing with what you should really consider to be disposable people and kind of even a new model of slavery.
      • He was introduced as a disposable character to push the story along for a couple of episodes at most.
      • Which is just fantastic, because a lot of what we do as actors is so disposable in a way.
      • Low Road buildings keep being valuable precisely because they are disposable.
      • But if she is ill or injured or just troublesome, she's disposable.
      • It's nice to call them disposable soldiers, but that's not the reality.
      • The oft-heard stereotype of deadbeat poor people masks the growing reality of dead-end jobs and disposable workers.
      • ‘We're disposable,’ she said of the military's attitude toward reservists.
      • But with the new fashion for disposable leaders, perhaps it doesn't matter much.
      • We'll tell you about America's disposable workers.
      • Women are for their pleasure, consumption, exploitation and when they are done with them, the women are disposable.
      • He was disposable, now that he'd backed out of the deal.
      • Instead, I'd gambled all my sweetness only to find out I was disposable.
      • They are the ones who are so easily turned away at hospitals with a painkiller to cure pulmonary tuberculosis and who are regarded as disposable members of our society.
      • It got depressing after a while, with the realisation that you're completely disposable and not being hired for any skills.
      • She was simply a pawn in his game, she was disposable once she had done what she needed to do, and he could destroy her on a whim.
      • Because I somehow feel that somewhere in someone's thinking fathers are disposable, because that's the way we're treating this man.
      Synonyms
      expendable, replaceable, inessential, unessential, non-essential, skippable
  • 2(chiefly of financial assets) readily available for the owner's use as required.

    (主要指金融资产)可随时调用的

    he made a mental inventory of his disposable assets

    他在脑子里清点了一下自己的可用资产。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The company is even considering opening a kiosk to sell sunglasses in the retail food court to gain a greater share of their customers' disposable dollars.
    • As an example of some of the vast differences, French law allows for property to be divided into a disposable and reserved portion on the death of the owner.
    • Ms Nicholas said only disposable assets were taken into account when determining eligibility.
    • We want to be able to compute various per capita measures, such as GDP per capita and real disposable personal income.
    • I would identify what disposable money I had each month, and divide it equally between the two.
    • Investment will therefore be a function of the financial viability of the hospital and its possession of disposable assets rather than its ranking in terms of national and regional need.
    • Dublin's combination of a young population with a high disposable spend is helping to push retail rents higher as international chains seek a high street presence in the market.
    • What they don't say is that schools and hospitals don't really count as disposable assets in the sense that they can't be sold off.
    • Brokering deals with things Britain didn't even possess is what kept her afloat in an age where several companies had a larger gross revenue and more disposable budget than the defunct remnants of age old empires.
    • We have exhausted all our savings and disposable assets.
    • Lists of required equipment and disposable items are available through the company.
    • A person with disposable assets may want to keep it all for himself or herself, may not want to let go of any of it, and may actually be anxious about what will happen if too much gets away.
    • By the end of 2002, Irish investors will have invested more of their annual disposable capital than ever before into property.
    • As the cofounder of Microsoft he has more disposable investment capital than most of us.
    • In any case they create an abundance of disposable money for which its owners try to find the most profitable investment.
    • As a business owner, you can't afford to view employees as disposable assets.
    • A Judge at York Crown Court ordered him to pay back £17,365, after hearing that the sum would take away all his disposable assets.
    • We are really looking at young, mobile 18- to 24-year-olds with a sizeable disposable spend, but our company will obviously appeal to people outside that bracket," she said.
    • As a result the growth in total wages has contributed far less to the overall growth in disposable personal income in this downturn than in prior downturns.
    • As Marx put it in his great work Capital, from the point of view of the system, ‘if a worker consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.’
    Synonyms
    available, usable, accessible, obtainable, spendable
noundɪˈspəʊzəb(ə)ldəˈspoʊzəb(ə)l
  • An article designed to be thrown away after use.

    一次性物品

    don't buy disposables, such as cups and plates

    别买像剃刀、杯子和碟子之类的一次性用品。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • After visiting the kitchen and disposing of the disposables, I headed back out to see what tasks I might do to make customers feel at ease.
    • I say unfortunately because this happens to be Real Nappy Week when we are supposed to be dumping our disposables and rushing out to buy reusables instead.
    • Initially the plan was we would have enough money from Mr and Mrs Davis for three years' worth of disposables.
    • We are likely to use crockery in place of plastic disposables,’ says Jinghan.
    • In reality, disposables take up a tiny proportion of landfill, and given the energy you need to boil the water and the amount of bleach and detergent you tip down the drain, nobody's really sure.
    • ‘Parents can no longer be demonised for using disposables,’ Tracey Stewart opined.
    • While my disposables are non-biodegradable I draw comfort from the claims that washing the cloth nappies uses so much soap that it's an environmental hazard anyway.
    • Now environmentalists are discouraging the use of disposables.
    • They go on like the disposables and are really easy to use.
    • For trips out and holidays, disposables are life-savers, but for everyday use they are simply proof of how lazy today's mothers are.
    • Statistically, I believe that those individuals who make up the overwhelming number of those murdered have been regarded as disposables.
    • At the other end, there are the nappies to buy - 1,126 for disposables for the first three years.
    • Whether you're trying to bond a cannula to a syringe hub, cement a lens in an endoscope, or produce disposables, chances are that some company makes an adhesive especially for that purpose.
    • The safety disposables are designed so that reuse is excluded.
    • Chip cards may have a long-term advantage over disposables.
    • The Indian leaf plate, pattal or istaraku is one of the precursors of the modern-day disposables.
    • The latter is a medical device manufacturer specializing in proprietary OEM products and private-label fluid disposables.
    • And Bea added that they would be cheaper than disposables and I asked J if they were expensive. ‘Oh, I don't know, I never look at the price of things,’ he said.
    • Manufacturing the disposables in India is another way of reducing the cost.
    • The restaurant and ice-cream stall in the Museum compound make it a point to avoid plastic disposables.

Derivatives

  • disposability

  • noundɪspəʊzəˈbɪlɪtidəˌspoʊzəˈbɪlədi
    • Perhaps we're all feeling a little insecure, a little uneasy about all this spectacular consumption, this culture of disposability.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • If we want to see where the disposability of ‘insignificant’ people leads us we need only look back to the stern lessons of 20th century Europe.
      • ‘The disposability of music? ‘he frowns, ‘I don't know about that.
      • However, the widespread availability and increasing disposability of music is pushing that listener further and further to the margins.
      • Over 85 percent of the factories are American owned, and employ primarily women because of their perceived docility, dexterity and disposability.

Definition of disposable in US English:

disposable

adjectivedəˈspōzəb(ə)ldəˈspoʊzəb(ə)l
  • 1(of an article) intended to be used once, or until no longer useful, and then thrown away.

    (物品)一次性的

    disposable diapers

    一次性尿布。

    a disposable razor

    一次性剃刀。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • And one of the council's strategies will be to work with parents to try to discourage them from using disposable nappies in favour of reusables.
    • Still remember the thrill, in those early days, of discovering scarce URLs; now they're printed on every piece of disposable packaging that I throw in the bin.
    • After they finished they threw their disposable plates and utensils down a chute.
    • Keep extra supplies on hand if your system requires disposable filters and special sanitizing solutions.
    • Men will want either electric or disposable razors, or both.
    • As western products find markets in even the remotest of islands, such items as disposable diapers and syringes litter otherwise lovely beaches.
    • Consumers might also welcome a tiered approach to rentals, with cheaper, single-viewing sessions available on disposable disks, he said.
    • The surgical attire policy at our facility requires wearing disposable head covers.
    • Maybe I shouldn't have used cheap disposable razors.
    • From 1947 until 1961, disposable diapers were a wad of tissue paper sandwiched between two pieces of plastic film.
    • So he conceived of a line of cheap, disposable razor blades that could be purchased in bulk and discarded before they ever needed sharpening.
    • More recently, disposable baths are available from several manufacturers as prepackaged single-use units.
    • As if all that were not enough, new scientific research is beginning to throw up other potential hazards with disposable nappies.
    • Articles such as disposable diapers, bibs, clothing, etc. are disclosed.
    • Further investigation showed they also contained hospital waste, including disposable syringes and surgical gloves.
    • During the purge I came across a still-functional disposable razor and since I was in a whimsical mood, I proceeded to convert my full beard into a goatee.
    • Once disposable nappies were for convenience.
    • Even the razor should be a disposable one, thrown out after use.
    • The bleached pulp is then converted into a variety of paper products, including disposable diapers.
    • The girls' version adds a nail file, moisturiser, cotton buds and pads, and eye make-up remover, while the boys get a disposable razor, shaving cream, aftershave and hair gel.
    Synonyms
    throwaway, expendable, one-use, non-returnable, replaceable
    1. 1.1 (of a person or idea) able to be dispensed with; easily dismissed.
      (人,观点)可有可无的;可轻易放弃的
      the poor performer is motivated by the fear that he or she is highly disposable

      那个可怜的演员是出于他或她随时会被打发掉的担心。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Women are for their pleasure, consumption, exploitation and when they are done with them, the women are disposable.
      • He was disposable, now that he'd backed out of the deal.
      • Especially if they're disposable - getting rid of the evidence as quickly as you can is crucial to both your nostrils and your sanity.
      • Instead, I'd gambled all my sweetness only to find out I was disposable.
      • In the age of disposable parents, it turns out you can't blame psychological disorders for what happens in the absence of rules.
      • They are the ones who are so easily turned away at hospitals with a painkiller to cure pulmonary tuberculosis and who are regarded as disposable members of our society.
      • There was a time when employees were disposable.
      • It's nice to call them disposable soldiers, but that's not the reality.
      • The oft-heard stereotype of deadbeat poor people masks the growing reality of dead-end jobs and disposable workers.
      • But if she is ill or injured or just troublesome, she's disposable.
      • But with the new fashion for disposable leaders, perhaps it doesn't matter much.
      • It got depressing after a while, with the realisation that you're completely disposable and not being hired for any skills.
      • We'll tell you about America's disposable workers.
      • Which is just fantastic, because a lot of what we do as actors is so disposable in a way.
      • Because I somehow feel that somewhere in someone's thinking fathers are disposable, because that's the way we're treating this man.
      • Low Road buildings keep being valuable precisely because they are disposable.
      • ‘We're disposable,’ she said of the military's attitude toward reservists.
      • We're dealing with what you should really consider to be disposable people and kind of even a new model of slavery.
      • She was simply a pawn in his game, she was disposable once she had done what she needed to do, and he could destroy her on a whim.
      • He was introduced as a disposable character to push the story along for a couple of episodes at most.
      Synonyms
      expendable, replaceable, inessential, unessential, non-essential, skippable
  • 2(chiefly of financial assets) readily available for the owner's use as required.

    (主要指金融资产)可随时调用的

    he made a mental inventory of his disposable assets

    他在脑子里清点了一下自己的可用资产。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Ms Nicholas said only disposable assets were taken into account when determining eligibility.
    • As an example of some of the vast differences, French law allows for property to be divided into a disposable and reserved portion on the death of the owner.
    • As a business owner, you can't afford to view employees as disposable assets.
    • The company is even considering opening a kiosk to sell sunglasses in the retail food court to gain a greater share of their customers' disposable dollars.
    • We are really looking at young, mobile 18- to 24-year-olds with a sizeable disposable spend, but our company will obviously appeal to people outside that bracket," she said.
    • As the cofounder of Microsoft he has more disposable investment capital than most of us.
    • I would identify what disposable money I had each month, and divide it equally between the two.
    • We have exhausted all our savings and disposable assets.
    • Brokering deals with things Britain didn't even possess is what kept her afloat in an age where several companies had a larger gross revenue and more disposable budget than the defunct remnants of age old empires.
    • As a result the growth in total wages has contributed far less to the overall growth in disposable personal income in this downturn than in prior downturns.
    • Investment will therefore be a function of the financial viability of the hospital and its possession of disposable assets rather than its ranking in terms of national and regional need.
    • What they don't say is that schools and hospitals don't really count as disposable assets in the sense that they can't be sold off.
    • A person with disposable assets may want to keep it all for himself or herself, may not want to let go of any of it, and may actually be anxious about what will happen if too much gets away.
    • Lists of required equipment and disposable items are available through the company.
    • As Marx put it in his great work Capital, from the point of view of the system, ‘if a worker consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.’
    • Dublin's combination of a young population with a high disposable spend is helping to push retail rents higher as international chains seek a high street presence in the market.
    • A Judge at York Crown Court ordered him to pay back £17,365, after hearing that the sum would take away all his disposable assets.
    • By the end of 2002, Irish investors will have invested more of their annual disposable capital than ever before into property.
    • We want to be able to compute various per capita measures, such as GDP per capita and real disposable personal income.
    • In any case they create an abundance of disposable money for which its owners try to find the most profitable investment.
    Synonyms
    available, usable, accessible, obtainable, spendable
noundəˈspōzəb(ə)ldəˈspoʊzəb(ə)l
  • An article designed to be thrown away after use.

    一次性物品

    don't buy disposables, such as razors, cups, and plates

    别买像剃刀、杯子和碟子之类的一次性用品。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • And Bea added that they would be cheaper than disposables and I asked J if they were expensive. ‘Oh, I don't know, I never look at the price of things,’ he said.
    • I say unfortunately because this happens to be Real Nappy Week when we are supposed to be dumping our disposables and rushing out to buy reusables instead.
    • We are likely to use crockery in place of plastic disposables,’ says Jinghan.
    • Chip cards may have a long-term advantage over disposables.
    • Statistically, I believe that those individuals who make up the overwhelming number of those murdered have been regarded as disposables.
    • In reality, disposables take up a tiny proportion of landfill, and given the energy you need to boil the water and the amount of bleach and detergent you tip down the drain, nobody's really sure.
    • While my disposables are non-biodegradable I draw comfort from the claims that washing the cloth nappies uses so much soap that it's an environmental hazard anyway.
    • The safety disposables are designed so that reuse is excluded.
    • Initially the plan was we would have enough money from Mr and Mrs Davis for three years' worth of disposables.
    • Manufacturing the disposables in India is another way of reducing the cost.
    • At the other end, there are the nappies to buy - 1,126 for disposables for the first three years.
    • They go on like the disposables and are really easy to use.
    • ‘Parents can no longer be demonised for using disposables,’ Tracey Stewart opined.
    • Whether you're trying to bond a cannula to a syringe hub, cement a lens in an endoscope, or produce disposables, chances are that some company makes an adhesive especially for that purpose.
    • The latter is a medical device manufacturer specializing in proprietary OEM products and private-label fluid disposables.
    • The Indian leaf plate, pattal or istaraku is one of the precursors of the modern-day disposables.
    • For trips out and holidays, disposables are life-savers, but for everyday use they are simply proof of how lazy today's mothers are.
    • Now environmentalists are discouraging the use of disposables.
    • The restaurant and ice-cream stall in the Museum compound make it a point to avoid plastic disposables.
    • After visiting the kitchen and disposing of the disposables, I headed back out to see what tasks I might do to make customers feel at ease.
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