abaterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /əˈbeɪ.tɚ/
• 韻: -eɪtə(ɹ)

名詞

abater (plural abaters)

1. One who, or that which, abates. [From 16 century.]
   • 1583, Pedro de la Sierra, translated by Robert Parry, The Second Part of the Myrror of Knighthood‎, London: Thomas Este, Book 1, Part 2, Chapter 21:

     This is the great Prince of Grecia, called the Knight of the Sunne, restorer of the auncient kingdome of Tinacria, & the abater and breaker of the strength of the most strongest Giants in all the world.

   • 1732, John Arbuthnot, Practical Rules of Diet in the Various Constitutions and Diseases of Human Bodies‎, London: J. Tonson, Chapter 1, section 26, p. 281:

     Anodyne, or Abaters of Pain of the Alimentary Kind. Such things as relax the Tension of the affected nervous Fibres […]

   • 1908, John H. Wallace, Preservation of the Game, Fish and Forests of Alabama, address given before the Alabama Press Association, 23 July, 1908, State Printers and Binders, p. 6,

     As a fever germ abater in a malarial district, a flock of bull-bats is worth a grove of quinine trees.

   • 1972, David I. Cook, David F. Van Haverbeke, “Trees and shrubs can curb noise, but with quite a few loud ‘ifs’”, in The Yearbook of Agriculture, 972‎, Washington, D.C.: US Department of Agriculture, page 28:

     […] research is proving the effectiveness of trees and shrubs as noise abaters—research prompted by the growing awareness that excessive noise is a form of environmental pollution.

アナグラム

• bat ear, rabate, trabea