fatigueとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /fəˈtiːɡ/
• 韻: -iːɡ

名詞

fatigue (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 fatigues)

1. A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
   • 2012 December 29, Paul Doyle, “Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Alan Pardew finished by far the most frustrated man at the Emirates, blaming fatigue for the fact that Arsenal were able to kill his team off in the dying minutes.

2. (often in the 複数形) A menial task or tasks, especially in the military.
3. (engineering) Weakening and eventual failure of material, typically by cracking leading to complete separation, caused by repeated application of mechanical stress to the material.
   • 2013, N. Dowling, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, page 399

     Mechanical failures due to fatigue have been the subject of engineering efforts for more than 150 years.

同意語

• Thesaurus:fatigue

派生語

• fatigues (military work clothing)
• diversity fatigue
• donor fatigue
• fatigueless
• fatigue duty

動詞

fatigue (三人称単数 現在形 fatigues, 現在分詞 fatiguing, 過去形および過去分詞形 fatigued)

1. (transitive) To tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.
2. (transitive, cooking) To wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it.
   • 1927, Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death, chapter 1

     The handsome, silver-haired proprietor was absorbed in fatiguing a salad for a family party.

3. (intransitive) To lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted.
4. (intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) To undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
5. (transitive, engineering) To cause to undergo the process of fatigue.

   The repeated pressurization cycles fatigued the airplane's metal skin until it eventually broke up in flight.

関連する語

• fatigable
• indefatigable

Further reading

• fatigue in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fatigue in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.