moistureとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɪs.t͡ʃə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɪs.t͡ʃɚ/
• 韻: -ɔɪstʃə(ɹ)

名詞

moisture (usually uncountable, 複数形 moistures)

1. That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity.

   drops / beads of moisture

   • c. 1591–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:

     I cannot weep; for all my body’s moisture
     Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heart:

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Luke 8:6:

     And some [seed] fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.

   • 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 7, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, OCLC 1057107260:

     […] Nicholas Nickleby’s eyes were dimmed with a moisture that might have been taken for tears.

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 3, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, OCLC 688657546, page 39:

     […] as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal, till I could see in the moonlight the moisture shining on the scarlet lips and on the red tongue as it lapped the white sharp teeth.

   • 1962, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Chapter 6, p. 65,^[1]

     The sage—low-growing and shrubby—could hold its place on the mountain slopes and on the plains, and within its small gray leaves it could hold moisture enough to defy the thieving winds.

2. The state of being moist.

   Synonyms: dampness, humidity, wetness

   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “4. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] VVilliam Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], page 84, OCLC 1044372886:

     […] all Exclusion of Open Aire, (which is euer Predatory) maintaineth the Body in his first Freshnesse, and Moisture:

   • 1643, John Denham, Coopers Hill, p. 7,^[2]

     Such was the discord, which did first disperse

     Forme, order, beauty through the universe;

     While drynesse moisture, coldnesse heat resists,

     All that we have, and that we are subsists:

   • 1794, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, London: J. Johnson, Volume 1, Section 7, I.1, p. 39,^[3]

     [The organs of touch are excited] by the unceasing variations of the heat, moisture, and pressure of the atmosphere;

3. (medicine) Skin moisture noted as dry, moist, clammy, or diaphoretic as part of the skin signs assessment.

同意語

• weakiness

関連する語

• moist
• moisten
• moisturise, moisturize
• moisturiser, moisturizer