a buildingとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

a- (“in, on”) +‎ building (“the act または process of building”)

副詞

a-building (not comparable)

1. Being built or under construction, as a structure or a vessel.
   • 1890, William Morris, chapter XXVI, in News from Nowhere:

     This talk brought us up to the house that was a-building, not a large one, which stood at the end of a beautiful orchard surrounded by an old stone wall.

   • 1922, Eric Rücker Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, page 141:

     "Of these nineteen ships a-building no more than two can take the water before a month be past, and but seven more ere six months' time, push we never so mightily the work."

アナグラム

• audibling

語源

a- (“in, on”) +‎ building (“the act または process of building”)

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /əˈbɪl.dɪŋ/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /əˈbɪl.dɪŋ/

形容詞

abuilding (not comparable)

1. (archaic, excluding US) Being built or under construction, as a structure or a vessel. [First attested in the mid 16^th century.]^[1]
   • c. 1658, Pierre-Esprit Radisson, Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson:

     Heere we made a double floore in the hall where the shippe was abuilding, so that the wild men, being ignorant of our way of building, could not take any notice of our cuningnesse, which proved to our desire.

   • 1913, William Dean Howells, Familiar Spanish Travels:

     It [the monastery of St. Lawrence in Escorial] cost eight millions; it was twenty-four years abuilding, and the founder himself saw it furnished and enjoyed it twelve years after, […]

2. (archaic, excluding US) Developing or arising, as a trend or an idea. [First attested in the mid 16^th century.]^[1]
   • a. 1898, William Cowper Brann, "Woman's Wickedness":

     This may signify much; among other things that the courtesan is creeping into social favor—even that a new code of morals is now abuilding, in which she will be the grand exemplar.

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