frazilとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈfɹæ.zəl/, /ˈfɹeɪ.zəl/, /-zɪl/
• 韻: -æzəl
• Homophone: frazzle

名詞

frazil (countable and uncountable, plural frazils)

1. (Canada, US) A collection of stray ice crystals that form in fast-moving water.

   Hypernym: ice

   • 1888 March 17th, The Montreal Gazette, Cent.:

     It has been suggested that it may be due to the accumulation of frazil or anchor-ice.

   • 1893 February 9th, The Youth’s Companion, Boston: Perry Mason & Co., page 71/4:

     The greater the surface of the swift open water, the greater the quantity of frazil made in a minute, hour, or day. Every open rapid is, in ‘zero weather’, a frazil-factory.

   • 2020, David Farrier, “The Library of Babel”, in Footprints, 4th Estate, →ISBN:

     Following currents that flow across the Bering and Chukchi shelves, microplastics from the Pacific that arrive in Arctic waters are gathered up by the tiny crystals that clump together to form ‘frazil’ (the gloss of soft ice that forms on the surface of the water) and then are bound into the sea ice.

派生語

語源 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

名詞

frazil (plural frazils)

1. Alternative form of farasola.

Further reading

• “frazil”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Frazil”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume IV (F–G), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 519, column 1.