dodgeとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /dɒdʒ/

• 韻: -ɒdʒ

動詞

dodge (三人称単数 現在形 dodges, 現在分詞 dodging, 過去形および過去分詞形 dodged)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.

   He dodged traffic crossing the street.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.

   The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.

   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎^[1]:

     The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.

3. (archaic) To go hither and thither.
4. (photography, videography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn).
5. (transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
   • 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, II.iii.7:

     “I had a notion he was dodging me all the way I came, for I saw him just behind me, turn which way I would.”

   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

     A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! / And still it neared and neared: / As if it dodged a water-sprite, / It plunged and tacked and veered.

   • 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:

     Miss Griffin screamed after me, the faithless Vizier ran after me, and the boy at the turnpike dodged me into a corner, like a sheep, and cut me off.

6. (transitive, intransitive, dated) To trick somebody.

同意語

• (to avoid): duck, evade, fudge, skirt, shun

派生語

• dodge a bullet
• dodger
• dodgy

名詞

dodge (複数形 dodges)

1. An act of dodging.
2. A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
   • 1869, Punch (volume 57, page 257)

     “Ain't this a rum go? This is a queer sort of dodge for lighting the streets.”

   • 1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan, OCLC 1085228267, page 14:

     He knows everybody, and is up to all the dodges of editorial management and newspaper cliques.