Jettison

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–verb (used with object) 

1. to cast (goods) overboard in order to lighten a vessel or aircraft or to improve its stability in an emergency. 

2. to throw off (something) as an obstacle or burden; discard. 

3. Cards. to discard (an unwanted card or cards). 

–noun 

4. the act of casting goods from a vessel or aircraft to lighten or stabilize it. 

5. jetsam.  





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flotsam, jetsam (nn.)   

 

Flotsam is floating debris made up of the wreckage of a ship and its cargo; 



jetsam is debris made up of the parts of a ship or its cargo flung overboard in the effort to lighten it and prevent its sinking. 



Together, flotsam and jetsam cover both kinds of marine loss. The cliché is also used figuratively to mean "odds and ends." (零星物品) 



Mnemonic 

[ni-mon-ik] device: jetsam is what they jettison in hopes of saving the ship. 





　Knicks look to jettison Jerome James

Donnie Walsh signed two players - Danilo Gallinari and Chris Duhon - over the last two days while reminding reporters that he has the entire summer to revamp the Knicks.





　

Documentary director Sharon Maguire, the real-life model for Fielding's Shazza, has shown an uncertain hand in her first feature. Script by Fielding, Richard Curtis ("Notting Hill" scribe) and BBC "Pride and Prejudice" writer Andrew Davies could have benefited from using elements of the book's diary structure, 



a framework it first [adopts] then [jettisons] inexplicably.





choppy (風浪)

billow (風)

plangent (浪) a plangent fable of faith, childhood's end

pageant 

The [coronation] of the new king was a splendid [pageant]. (n.)



undulation 

cf. inundation (area) elucidation (make lucid or clear)

ripple 

dimple zit pustule

fret

The [metal] is fretted with the [acid].

The [breeze] fretted the surface of the [water].



jettison

flotsam is floating debris made up of the wreckage of ship and its cargo.

jetsam is debris they [jettison] in hopes of saving the ship.

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