carriageとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English cariage, from Old Northern French cariage, from carier (“to carry”).

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹɪdʒ/, /ˈkɛɹɪdʒ/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹɪdʒ/
• (Mary–marry–merry merger)
• 韻: -æɹɪdʒ
• ハイフネーション: car‧riage

名詞

carriage (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 carriages)

Carriage render

1. The act of conveying; carrying.
2. Means of conveyance.
3. A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.

   The carriage ride was very romantic.

4. (Britain) A railcar, especially one designed for the conveyance of passengers.
   • 1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 7:

     When the long, hot journey drew to its end and the train slowed down for the last time, there was a stir in Jessamy’s carriage. People began to shake crumbs from their laps and tidy themselves up a little.

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5. The manner or posture in which one holds or positions a body part, such as one's arm or head.

   The runner has a very low arm carriage.

6. (now rare) A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto i:

     His carriage was full comely and vpright, / His countenaunce demure and temperate [...].

   • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "Characters," [1]

     In spite of her erect carriage she could flop to her knees to pray as smart as any of us.

   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 90:

     He chose to speak largely about Vietnam [...], and his wonderfully sonorous voice was as enthralling to me as his very striking carriage and appearance.

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7. (archaic) One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 407:

     He now assumed a carriage to me so very different from what he had lately worn, and so nearly resembling his behaviour the first week of our marriage, that […] he might, possibly, have rekindled my fondness for him.

   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I:

     Some people whisper but no doubt they lie, / For malice still imputes some private end, / That Inez had, ere Don Alfonso's marriage, / Forgot with him her very prudent carriage [...].

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8. The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.
9. (US, New England) A shopping cart.
10. (Britain) A stroller; a baby carriage.
11. The charge made for conveying (especially in the phrases carriage forward, when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, かつ carriage paid).

    Synonyms: freight, freightage, cartage, charge, rate

12. (archaic) That which is carried, baggage
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 1 Samuel 17:22:

      And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.

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