carrotとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English karette and Middle French carotte, both from Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek καρῶτον (karôton). Doublet of carotte and related to caraway. Displaced native 古期英語 mōre.

• Noun sense of "motivational tool" refers to carrot and stick.
• Verb sense in felt manufacture refers to the orange colour of drying furs.

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: kâr'ət, IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹ.ət/
• (General American) enPR: kâr'ət
  • (Mary–marry–merry distinction) IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹ.ət/
• 韻: -æɹət
• enPR: kĕr'ət
  • (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛɹ.ət/
• (Mary–marry–merry merger)
• 異形同音異義語: carat, karat
• (weak vowel merger) Homophone: caret
• ハイフネーション: car‧rot

名詞

carrot (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 carrots)

1. A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, especially the subspecies sativus in the family Apiaceae.
2. A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange).

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3. (figurative) Any motivational tool; an incentive to do something.
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     Essentially, lawmakers replaced the sticks with carrots.

4. (UK, slang, derogatory) Someone from a rural background.
5. (UK, slang) A police officer from somewhere within the British Isles, but specifically outside of Greater London.
6. (slang) A redhead; a ginger-haired person

同意語

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派生語

参考

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• Queen Anne's lace

参照

• carrot in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

動詞

carrot (三人称単数 現在形 carrots, 現在分詞 carroting, 過去形および過去分詞形 carroted)

1. (transitive) To treat (an animal pelt) with a solution of mercuric nitrate as part of felt manufacture.

派生語

• carroting

アナグラム

• trocar