ebbとは

発音

• enPR: ĕb, IPA^(key): /ɛb/
• 韻: -ɛb

名詞

ebb (複数形 ebbs)

1. The receding movement of the tide.

   The boats will go out on the ebb.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Shelley

     Thou shoreless flood which in thy ebb and flow / Claspest the limits of morality!

2. A gradual decline.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Roscommon

     Thus all the treasure of our flowing years, / Our ebb of life for ever takes away.

   • Shelley, Mary, The Last Man

     This reflection thawed my congealing blood, and again the tide of life and love flowed impetuously onward, again to ebb as my busy thoughts changed.

3. A low state; a state of depression.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Dryden

     Painting was then at its lowest ebb.

   • 2002, Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 22 & 29 April

     A "lowest ebb" implies something singular and finite, but for many of us, born in the Depression and raised by parents distrustful of fortune, an "ebb" might easily have lasted for years.

4. A European bunting, the corn bunting (Emberiza calandra, syn. Emberiza miliaria, Milaria calandra).

反意語

• flood
• flow

派生語

• ebb and flow
• ebb tide

関連する語

• neap
• tide

動詞

ebb (三人称単数 現在形 ebbs, 現在分詞 ebbing, 過去形および過去分詞形 ebbed)

1. (intransitive) to flow back or recede

   The tides ebbed at noon.

2. (intransitive) to fall away or decline

   The dying man's strength ebbed away.

3. (intransitive) to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
4. (transitive) To cause to flow back.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Ford to this entry?)

同意語

ebb away, ebb down, ebb off, ebb out, reflux, wane

形容詞

ebb (comparative ebber, superlative ebbest)

1. low, shallow

   The water there is otherwise very low and ebb. (Holland)

アナグラム

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