limbとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English lyme, lim, from 古期英語 lim (“limb, branch”), from Proto-Germanic *limuz (“branch, limb”). Cognate with Old Norse limr (“limb”). The silent -b began to appear in the late 1500s.

名詞

limb (複数形 limbs)

1. A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg または wing).
   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter I, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384:

     Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.

2. A branch of a tree.

   Synonym: bough

3. (archery) The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.
4. An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
5. A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
   • 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. In Three Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, OCLC 270129598:

     That little limb of the devil has cheated the gallows.

派生語

• go out on a limb

動詞

limb (三人称単数 現在形 limbs, 現在分詞 limbing, 過去形および過去分詞形 limbed)

1. (transitive) To remove the limbs from (an animal または tree).

   They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs.

2. (transitive) To supply with limbs.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Henry D. Thoreau, Walden

     Man was not made so large limbed and robust but that he must seek to narrow his world and wall in a space such as fitted him.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)

同意語

• delimb

語源 2

From Latin limbus (“border”).

名詞

limb (複数形 limbs)

1. (astronomy) The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.

   solar limb

2. (on a measuring instrument) The graduated edge of a circle or arc.
3. (botany) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade.

参考

Picture dictionary
arm leg wing bow

アナグラム

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