keelとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English kele, from Old Norse kjǫlr, itself from Proto-Germanic *keluz, of uncertain origin. Displaced 古期英語 ċēol from a related root. Distantly related to kile.

発音

• (英国用法) IPA^(key): /kiːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl

名詞

keel (複数形 keels)

1. (nautical) A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern.
2. (nautical) A rigid, flat piece of material anchored to the lowest part of the hull of a ship to give it greater control and stability.
3. (aeronautics) In a dirigible, a construction similar in form and use to a ship's keel; in an aeroplane, a fin or fixed surface employed to increase stability and to hold the machine to its course.
4. (by extension) The rigid bottom part of something else, especially an iceberg.

   Coordinate term: bummock

   • 1975, Nathaniel Bowditch, American Practical Navigator: An Epitome of Navigation, page 834:

     The most important ice features are the frequency and extent of downward projections (bummocks かつ ice keels) from the underside of the ice canopy (pack ice かつ enclosed water areas from the point of view of the submariner) […]

   • 1986, Environmental Studies Revolving Funds (Canada), C. F. M. Lewis, Federal Panel on Energy Research and Development (Canada), Gulf Canada Resources Inc, Ice Scour Workshop (1985 : Calgary, Alta.), Ice Scour and Seabed Engineering: Proceedings of a Workshop on Ice Scour Research:

     Bill Roggensack, EBA Engineering Ltd.: So at the end of this particular simulation, presumably the keel of the iceberg is in contact with the seabed? / Chris Woodworth-Lynas: It is just in contact with the seabed.

   • 2021 September 30, Kenneth Andrus, Arctic Menace, Babylon Books, →ISBN:

     Would he be able to break through the surface ice or would they ram into an ice keel extending down from the bottom of the ice pack that would rip their craft open like a mere sardine can?

5. (nautical) A type of flat-bottomed boat.
   • 1948 January and February, “Notes and News: Duke of Wellington's Early Railway Journey”, in Railway Magazine, page 56:

     The ladies remained at the house, while the men walked to the staith on the [River] Wear, and were shown the process of unloading the wagons into the keels by means of the coal-drop.

6. (zoology) The periphery of a whorl extended to form a more or less flattened plate; a prominent spiral ridge.
7. (botany) The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and enclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina.
   • 1985, Charles L. Scott, The Genus Haworthia (Liliaceae): A Taxonomic Revision, page 80:

     Vegetatively it is the nearest to H. translucens with its oblong-lanceolate leaves, with the margins and keel beset with pellucid teeth, but it differs and is characterised by the greyish-black quadrantly positioned globose flowers; […]

派生語

動詞

keel (三人称単数 現在形 keels, 現在分詞 keeling, 過去形および過去分詞形 keeled)

1. (intransitive, followed by "over") to collapse, to fall

   He keeled over after having a stroke.

2. To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
3. To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.

派生語

• keel over

語源 2

From Middle English kelen, from 古期英語 cēlan (“to cool, to make または become cool”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōlijan, from Proto-Germanic *kōlijaną (“to cool”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian käile, köile (“to cool”), Dutch koelen (“to cool”), German Low German köhlen (“to cool”), German kühlen (“to cool”), Danish køle (“to cool”), Icelandic kæla (“to cool”).

動詞

keel (三人称単数 現在形 keels, 現在分詞 keeling, 過去形および過去分詞形 keeled)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To cool; make cool; to cool by stirring or skimming in order to keep from boiling over.

   while greasy Joan doth keel the pot (Shakespeare)

2. (transitive, obsolete) To moderate the ardour or intensity of; assuage; to appease, pacify, or lessen.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To become cool; cool down.

派生語

• keeler

名詞

keel (複数形 keels)

1. (brewing) A broad, flat vessel used for cooling liquids; a brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat.

語源 3

Probably from Scottish Gaelic cìl (“ruddle”).

名詞

keel

1. (Scotland) Red chalk; ruddle.

動詞

keel (三人称単数 現在形 keels, 現在分詞 keeling, 過去形および過去分詞形 keeled)

1. (Scotland, transitive) To mark with ruddle.

語源 4

Compare Scots kele, keil, keill (“to put to death, kill”).

動詞

keel (三人称単数 現在形 keels, 現在分詞 keeling, 過去形および過去分詞形 keeled)

1. Pronunciation spelling of kill.

アナグラム

• Kele, Leek, elke, leek, lekë