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    An orphan is a child whose parents have both died. As a verb, "to orphan" someone means to make them lose their parents that way — often used in the passive, like "she was orphaned at age five." People also stretch the word a little to talk about things left without the support they need, like "an orphan drug" (a medicine for a rare disease that doesn't get much funding because few people need it).

From the word’s history

From Late Latin orphanus, from Greek orphanós 'without parents, fatherless'.

源自晚期拉丁文 orphanus，來自希臘文 orphanós「失去父母的」。

Wiktionary

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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

orphannoun/ˈɔːfən/

  • 1

    A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.

    • Rudolf was the bold, bad Baron of traditional melodrama. Irene was young, as pretty as a picture, fresh from a music academy in England. He was the scion of an ancient noble family; she an orphan without money or friends.
  • 2

    A person, especially a minor, whose parents have permanently abandoned them.

  • 3

    A young animal with no mother.

  • 4

    Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's demise or decision to abandon.

  • 5

    mediapublishingtypographyA single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.

  • 6

    computingengineeringmathematicsAny unreferenced object.

    • An orphan isn't harmful in a language that has garbage collection, such as Java. However, reducing the number of orphans can be expected to improve code performance.

orphanadj/ˈɔːfən/

  • 1

    Deprived of parents (also orphaned).

    • She is an orphan child.
  • 2

    Remaining after the removal of some form of support.

    • With its government funding curtailed, the gun registry became an orphan program.

orphanverb/ˈɔːfən/

  • 1

    To deprive of parents (used almost exclusively in the passive).

    • What do you do when you come across two orphaned polar bear cubs?
  • 2

    computingengineeringmathematicsTo make unavailable, as by removing the last remaining pointer or reference to.

    • When you removed that image tag, you orphaned the resized icon.
    • Removing categories orphans pages from the main category tree.

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