burstとは

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /bɝst/
• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /bɜːst/
• 韻: -ɜː(r)st

名詞

burst (複数形 bursts)

1. An instance of, or the act of bursting.

   The bursts of the bombs could be heard miles away.

2. A sudden, often intense, expression, manifestation or display.
   • 1860/1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

     "It's my wedding-day," cried Biddy, in a burst of happiness, "and I am married to Joe!"

   • 1961, Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron, page 1:

     It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn't think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn't think about anything except in short bursts.

3. A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm.

派生語

動詞

burst (third-person singular simple present bursts, present participle bursting, simple past burst or (古風な用法) brast or (一般的ではない用法) bursted, past participle burst or (まれに) bursten or (一般的ではない用法) bursted)

1. (intransitive) To break from internal pressure.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     ‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.

   I blew the balloon up too much, and it burst.

2. (transitive) To cause to break from internal pressure.

   I burst the balloon when I blew it up too much.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to break by any means.
   • Shakespeare

     You will not pay for the glasses you have burst?

   • Fairfax

     He burst his lance against the sand below.

4. (transitive) To separate formfeed at perforation lines.

   I printed the report on formfeed paper then burst the sheets.

5. (intransitive) To enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly.
   • 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

     He entered Maromme shouting for the people of the inn, burst open the door with a thrust of his shoulder, made for a sack of oats, emptied a bottle of sweet cider into the manger, and again mounted his nag, whose feet struck fire as it dashed along.

   • 1913, Mariano Azuela, The Underdogs, translated by E. MunguÍa, Jr.

     Like hungry dogs who have sniffed their meat, the mob bursts in, trampling down the women who sought to bar the entrance with their bodies.

6. (transitive) To produce as an effect of bursting.

   to burst a hole through the wall

引用

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:burst.

等位語

• split, crack

派生語

関連する語

• bust

アナグラム

• Strub, strub, sturb, trubs