jack-knifeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• jackknife (Note: the two spellings appear roughly equally common.)

名詞

jack-knife (plural jack-knives)

1. A compact folding knife.

   He kept a jack-knife in his pocket for various tasks.

2. The front-dive pike, in which the body folds and unfolds.

   It took me hundreds of dives to master even the simple jackknife.

3. (colloquial) A semi-trailer truck accident in which the vehicle mimics the closing of a jack-knife.

   I have seen several jack-knives along that dangerous stretch of road.

4. A game of skill played with a pocket knife in which participants try to throw or flip the knife to stick upright in the ground at specified points or areas; mumblety-peg.
   • 1948, Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms, Part One, 1:

     Over at the stable, the men joke and drink whiskey, talk crops and play jack-knife ...

5. (statistics) Alternative spelling of jackknife.

派生語

• jack-knife barber

参考

動詞

jack-knife (third-person singular simple present jack-knifes, present participle jack-knifing, simple past and past participle jack-knifed)

1. To fold in the middle, as a jackknife does.

   The cat jackknifed in the air and landed gracefully on its feet.

   • 2009, Reif Larsen, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, Pinguin Books, page 37:

     There was a world inside that tall grass. You could plop yourself down in the middle of it with the scraggly stems against the back of your neck and the endless grasses rising up and jackknifing against the bigbluesky, and the ranch and all of its players would fade into a distant dream.

2. (colloquial) To cause a semi-trailer truck to fold like a jackknife in a traffic accident.

   Before I knew what was happening, I'd jack-knifed the truck.

   Before I knew what was happening, I'd jack-knifed.

参考

• Resampling (statistics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

動詞

jackknife (third-person singular simple present jackknifes, present participle jackknifing, simple past and past participle jackknifed)

1. Alternative form of jack-knife