English Dictionary

recycle

IPA（発音記号）

/ɹəˈsaɪkəl/

動詞

他動詞 作格 自動詞 アメリカ英語

(transitive) To break down and reuse component materials. / (transitive) To reuse as a whole. / (transitive) To collect or place in a bin for recycling. / (intransitive, ergative) To be recycled.

日本語の意味

素材を分解して、再利用すること / 一体として再使用すること / リサイクル用に収集・投入すること / リサイクルされること

The factory decided to recycle the old plastic components into new building materials.

工場は古いプラスチック部品を分解して新しい建材として再利用することに決めた。

意味（1）

(transitive) To break down and reuse component materials.

Both paper and plastic can be recycled.

意味（2）

(transitive) To reuse as a whole.

Jokes are recycled so frequently, it’s as if comedy writing was eating a hole in the ozone layer: If the audience had a nickel for every time a character on one side of the frame says something could never happen as it simultaneously happens on the other side of the frame, they’d have enough to pay the surcharge for the movie’s badly implemented 3-D.

意味（3）

(transitive) To collect or place in a bin for recycling.

Most cans, bottles, and jars need to be rinsed, so recycle while you are doing dishes.

意味（4）

(intransitive, ergative) To be recycled.

Sulfur recycles in the sulfur cycle.

意味（5）

(US) To discard into a recycling bin.

意味（6）

(US, military, transitive) To put (a person) through a course of training again.

Recruits cannot fail this portion of their training and become a Marine. Anyone who fails may be “recycled” through training up to three more times to try again, but will be sent home if success in this program is not achieved.

意味（7）

(roller derby) To skate toward the rear of the engagement zone to maximize the time that an opposing jammer must spend before returning to the action.

recycles （ present singular third-person ）

recycling （ participle present ）

recycled （ participle past ）

recycled （ past ）