drizzleとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɪz.l/
• 韻: -ɪzəl
• ハイフネーション: driz‧zle

動詞

drizzle (三人称単数 現在形 drizzles, 現在分詞 drizzling, 過去形および過去分詞形 drizzled)

1. (impersonal) To rain lightly.

   We had planned a picnic for Joe's birthday, but it ended up drizzling all day.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To shed slowly in minute drops or particles.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Ianuarie. Aegloga Prima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], OCLC 606515406; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, OCLC 890162479:

     And from mine eyes the drizling teares descend,
     As on your boughes the ysicles depend.

   • c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene v]:

     When the sun sets, the air doth drizzle dew;
     But for the sunset of my brother’s son
     It rains downright.

3. (cooking, transitive) To pour slowly and evenly, especially oil or honey in cooking.

   The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle olive oil on it.

4. (cooking, transitive) To cover by pouring in this manner.

   The recipe says to toss the salad and then drizzle it in olive oil.

5. (slang) To urinate. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
6. (dated) To carry out parfilage, the process of unravelling.

名詞

drizzle (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 drizzles)

1. Light rain.
2. (physics, weather) Very small, numerous, and uniformly dispersed water drops, mist, or sprinkle. Unlike fog droplets, drizzle falls to the ground.

   No longer pouring, the rain outside slowed down to a faint drizzle.

3. (slang) Water.

   Stop drinking all of my drizzle!

4. (baking) A cake onto which icing, honey or syrup has been drizzled in an artistic manner.
   • April 19, 2013,Felicity Cloake, "How to Cook the Perfect Lemon Drizzle Cake" in The Guardian

     Drizzle is not normally good news. Not when it's falling from the sky, not when it's replacing a decent helping of sauce, and especially not when it's found on a menu in close proximity to the words "balsamic vinegar". Deliciously sticky, sweet and sour lemon drizzle cake is the one, and very honourable, exception.

   • 2009, Jules Stanbridge, Sugar and Spice:

     The rest of the day is spent trying to concentrate on ingredient labels, ordering supplies, baking some fairy cakes for a hen party and two lemon drizzles, one for a new baby and one for an old dear's birthday.

派生語

• drizzly
• drizzler