SAUCERとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsɔːsə/
• (General American, without the cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈsɔsɚ/
• (General American, cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈsɑsɝ/
• (Scotland) IPA: /ˈsɔsəɾ/
• 韻: -ɔːsə(ɹ)

名詞

saucer (plural saucers)

1. A small shallow dish to hold a cup and catch drips.
2. An object round and gently curved, shaped like a saucer.

   The saucer-shaped object could have been a UFO.

3. A circular sled without runners.
4. (obsolete) A small pan or other vessel-like food container in which sauce was set on a table.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “II. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     Take two saucers , and strike the edge of the one against the bottom of the other , within a pail of water ; and you shall find , that as you put the saucers lower and lower , the sound groweth more flat

5. A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.
6. A shallow socket for the pivot of a capstan.

派生語

関連する語

• sauce

派生した語

• → Irish: sásar
• → Kashubian: sosera (Canada)

動詞

saucer (third-person singular simple present saucers, present participle saucering, simple past and past participle saucered)

1. (transitive) To pour (tea, etc.) from the cup into the saucer in order to cool it before drinking.
2. (intransitive) Of the eyes: to become large and round.
   • 2016, Ian Mitchell-Gill, Merrett's Gift:

     Lydia's eyes saucered with shock. Her heart was beating very fast and all her adrenaline kicked in.

アナグラム

• SACEUR, Surace, causer, cesura

語源

From Old French saussier (and feminine saussiere); equivalent to sauce +‎ -er.

発音

• IPA: /ˈsau̯sər(ə)/

名詞

saucer (plural saucers)

1. A small receptacle or bowl for storing sauce in.
2. A small plate, bowl, or dish; a saucer.

派生した語

• English: saucer
• Scots: saucer
• → Welsh: soser

参照

• “saucer(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 9 December 2018.