ebbとは意味・読み方・使い方

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.

   • 1824, Mary Shelley, Time

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

   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide

     Men come from distant parts to admire the tides of Solway, which race in at flood and retreat at ebb with a greater speed than a horse can follow.

2. A gradual decline.
   • 1684, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse

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

   • 1826, [Mary Shelley], The Last Man. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 230675575:

     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. (especially in the phrase 'at a low ebb') A low state; a state of depression.
   • 1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, John Dryden, transl., De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], OCLC 261121781:

     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.

   • 2020 July 29, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railways that reach out over the waves”, in Rail, page 51:

     The 1987 book British Piers was written at a time when Britain's seaside resorts were perhaps at their lowest ebb, with a groundswell of support for rejuvenation and conservation just beginning.

4. A European bunting, the corn bunting (Emberiza calandra, syns. 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.

同意語

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

形容詞

ebb (comparative ebber, superlative ebbest)

1. low, shallow
   • 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the VVorld. Commonly Called, The Natvrall Historie of C. Plinivs Secvndus. […], (please specify |tome=1 または 2), London: […] Adam Islip, published 1635, OCLC 1180792622: