greaseとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

Noun

• (General American) enPR: grēs, IPA^(key): /ɡɹis/
• (英国発音) enPR: grēs, IPA^(key): /ɡɹiːs/
• 韻: -iːs
• Homophone: Greece

Verb

• (英国発音) enPR: grēs, IPA^(key): /ɡɹiːs/
• (General American) enPR: grēs, grēz, IPA^(key): /ɡɹis/, /ɡɹiz/
• 韻: -iːs (英国発音, 米国発音)
• 韻: -iːz (米国発音)

名詞

grease (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 greases)

1. Animal fat in a melted or soft state
2. (by extension) Any oily or fatty matter.
3. Shorn but not yet cleansed wool
4. Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
5. (slang) Bribe money.
   • 1982, Stephen King, Survivor Type

     Some of the people I talked to said it could be done—but it would cost big money. More grease than I’d ever dreamed of.

同意語

• (animal fat): fat, lard

派生語

動詞

grease (三人称単数 現在形 greases, 現在分詞 greasing, 過去形および過去分詞形 greased)

1. (transitive) To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
2. (transitive, informal) To bribe.
   • 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis; John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Third Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], OCLC 80026745:

     the greas'd advocate that grinds the poor

   • 2008, Byron Archibald Dunn, With Lyon in Missouri:

     Then you remember we greased him to the tune of five hundred.

   • 2009, Dan Richardson, GOG - an End Time Mystery:

     His employee status didn't entitle him to one, but Magdy on reception would slip him a key if Sabr greased him with a fifty.

3. (transitive, informal) To cause to go easily; to facilitate.
4. (transitive, slang, aviation) To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.

   To my amazement, I greased the landing despite the tricky crosswinds.

5. (transitive, slang) To kill, murder.
6. (obsolete) To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
   • 1616–1619 (first performance)​, John Fletcher, “The Mad Lover”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, OCLC 3083972, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, かつ the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     You have greased him
     For chewing love again in haste

7. To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.

同意語

• (put grease または fat on): lard
• (スラング for kill または murder): bump off, hit, whack

派生語