cinchとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Borrowed from Occitan cencha or Spanish cincha (“a belt または girth”), from Late Latin cingula, from Latin cingulum. Doublet of cingle.

名詞

cinch (複数形 cinches)

1. A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.
   • 1915, B. M. Bower, The Flying U's Last Stand

     He found Andy morosely replacing some broken strands in his cinch, and he went straight at the mooted question.

2. (informal) Something that is very easy to do.

   No problem. It's a cinch.

   • 1913, Major Archibald Lee Fletcher, Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns

     We thought we had a cinch on getting out by way of this cord and so we followed that.

3. (informal) A firm hold.
   • 1916, Gilbert Parker, The World For Sale,

     You've got the cinch on him. You could send him to quod, and I'd send him there as quick as lightning. I'd hang him, if I could, for what he done to Lil Sarnia.

同意語

• (something that is very easy to do): See also Thesaurus:easy thing

動詞

cinch (三人称単数 現在形 cinches, 現在分詞 cinching, 過去形および過去分詞形 cinched)

1. To bring to certain conclusion.
2. To tighten down.
   • 2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic Magazine‎^[1]:

     [Ostriches] also lack the tiny hooks, or barbicels, that cinch feathers together in most other birds.

引用

• 1911, "I intend to cinch that government business." — Margaret Burnham, The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise
• 2016, Christopher Kelly, The Pink Bus. Mapple Shade, New Jersey: Lethe Press. p. 49.

  "You know I've been thinking about your idea, and I think we should vote for each other," Patrick said, hoping that maybe this would be enough to cinch an actual friendship with Baffi--something that suddenly felt more important to Patrick than anything else in the world.

派生語

• cincher