belayとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• Verb:
  • (米国発音) IPA: /bɪˈleɪ/
  • (英国発音) IPA: /ˈbiːleɪ/, /bɪˈleɪ/
  • 韻: -eɪ, (英国発音) -iːleɪ
• Noun:
  • IPA: /ˈbiːleɪ/
  • 韻: -iːleɪ

動詞

belay (third-person singular simple present belays, present participle belaying, simple past and past participle belayed or belaid)

1. (ambitransitive, nautical) To make (a rope) fast by turning it around a fastening point such as a cleat.
2. (transitive, climbing) To handle a climbing rope to prevent (a climber) from falling to the ground.

   He would need an experienced partner to belay him on the difficult climbs.

   I could only hope the remaining piton would belay his fall.

3. (transitive) To lay aside; to stop; to cancel.

   Belay that order!

   • 2015 February 1, Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary‎, archived from the original on 14 May 2024:

     "We landed in their killbox?" "We did. I am sor... No, belay that. Heads down! Cavalry incoming!"

4. (intransitive, nautical) The general command to stop or cease.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To surround; to environ; to enclose.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To overlay; to adorn.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 5:

     jacket […] belayd with silver lace

7. (transitive, obsolete) To besiege; invest; surround.
8. (transitive, obsolete) To lie in wait for in order to attack; block up or obstruct.

派生語

名詞

belay (plural belays)

1. (climbing) The securing of a rope to a rock or other sturdy object.
2. (climbing) The object to which a rope is secured.
3. (climbing) A location at which a climber stops and builds an anchor with which to secure their partner.
   • 1967, Anthony Greenbank, Instructions in Mountaineering, page 84:

     But instead of swapping over at the ice axe belay, you carry on in the lead, cutting or kicking steps until you are about twenty feet above.

派生語

• belay device

参考

• Belaying on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

語源 2

発音

• IPA: /bɪˈleɪ/
• 韻: -eɪ

動詞

belay

1. simple past of belie (“encompass”)

参照

• “belay”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “belay”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Baley, Leyba, Bayle