bikeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /baɪk/
• (米国発音, Canada) IPA^(key): [bɐɪk]
  • 韻: -aɪk

語源 1

From bicycle, by shortening, and possibly alteration. Attested from 1882.

One explanation for the pronunciation is that bicycle is parsed to bi(cy)c(le). An alternative explanation is that bicycle is shortened to bic(ycle), and the terminal [s] is converted to a [k] because there is an underlying underspecified [k]/[s] sound, which is softened to [s] in bicycle but retained as [k] in bike; compare the letter ‘c’ (used for [k]/[s]).^[1]

名詞

bike (複数形 bikes)

2. Clipping of bicycle.
4. Clipping of motorbike.
5. (slang, derogatory) Ellipsis of village bike.

   Synonyms: slapper, slag

下位語

派生語

派生した語

• → Italian: bike f
• → Norman: bike f

参考

• trike

動詞

bike (三人称単数 現在形 bikes, 現在分詞 biking, 過去形および過去分詞形 biked)

1. (intransitive) To ride a bike.

   I biked so much yesterday that I'm very sore today.

2. (intransitive) To travel by bike.

   It was such a nice day I decided to bike to the store, though it's far enough I usually take my car.

3. (transitive) To transport by bicycle.

   I biked them the letters.

   • 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give または take)”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Frank, a teenager, arrived at his grandfather’s shop to begin work as a butcher’s boy. The job would be to bike parcels of meat around Dronfield and the surrounding countryside between the cities of Sheffield and Chesterfield, right on the county border of Derbyshire and Yorkshire.

派生した語

• → French: biker (verb)

参照

Further reading

• bike on Wikipedia.

語源 2

From Middle English bike, byke (“a nest of wild bees または wasps", also "honeycomb”). Of unknown origin. Perhaps a back-formation of Middle English *bykere (“beekeeper”), from 古期英語 bēocere (“beekeeper”); or from 古期英語 *bȳc a byform of 古期英語 būc (“belly; vessel; container”). Compare also Old Norse bý (“bee”).

名詞

bike (複数形 bikes)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) A hive of bees, or a nest of wasps, hornets, or ants.
   • 1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, III, または IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:

     like blue bottle flees in a blink of sunshine, […] A bonny bike there's o ' them !

   • 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 107:

     he stood for a minute talking to them about their job of gathering cones, and telling them a story about a tree he'd once climbed which had a wasp's byke in it unbeknown to him.

2. (chiefly Scotland, by extension, collective) A crowd of people.

アナグラム

• Beki, kibe