beachとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English bache, bæcche (“bank, sandbank”), from 古期英語 bæċe, beċe (“beck, brook, stream”), from Proto-West Germanic *baki, from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“brook”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰog- (“flowing water”).

Cognate with Dutch beek (“brook, stream”), German Bach (“brook, stream”), Swedish bäck (“stream, brook, creek”). More at batch, beck.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /bit͡ʃ/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /biːt͡ʃ/
• 韻: -iːtʃ
• Homophone: beech

名詞

beach (複数形 beaches)

1. The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned, […] and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.

2. A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
   • 1988, Robert Ferro, Second Son:

     Up and down, the beach lay empty for miles.

3. (Britain dialectal, Sussex, Kent) The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
4. (motorsports, euphemistic) Synonym of gravel trap

同意語

• (horizontal strip of land adjoining water): sand, strand, backshore

派生語

派生した語

• → Japanese: ビーチ
• → Zulu: ibhishi

動詞

beach (三人称単数 現在形 beaches, 現在分詞 beaching, 過去形および過去分詞形 beached)

1. (intransitive) To run aground on a beach.
   • 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, "Salt Water," [1]

     When we finally beached, the land was scarcely less wet than the sea.

2. (transitive) To run (something) aground on a beach.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 90, [2]

     It seems that some honest mariners of Dover, or Sandwich, or some one of the Cinque Ports, had after a hard chase succeeded in killing and beaching a fine whale which they had originally descried afar off from the shore.

   • 1974, Homer, Iliad, translated by Robert Fitzgerald, Doubleday, Book Two, lines 530-31, p. 53,

     Great Aías led twelve ships from Sálamis

     and beached them where Athenians formed for battle.

3. (of a vehicle) To run into an obstacle or rough or soft ground, so that the floor of the vehicle rests on the ground and the wheels cannot gain traction.

同意語

• strand

派生語

• unbeached

アナグラム

• Bache, bache