mowとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国用法) IPA^(key): /məʊ/
• (米国用法) IPA^(key): /moʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊ

動詞

mow (三人称単数 現在形 mows, 現在分詞 mowing, 過去形 mowed, 過去分詞 mowed または mown)

1. (transitive) To cut down grass or crops.

   He mowed the lawn every few weeks in the summer.

2. (transitive, often with through) To cut down or slaughter in great numbers.
   • 1915, Captain Robert Palmer, Letters from Mesopotamia:

     In the afternoon they attacked again, in close formation: our artillery mowed them, but they came on and on, […]

   • 2019 March 6, Drachinifel, 25:58 from the start, in The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships!‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 July 2022:

     On the one hand, we had a scenario where, effectively, the American admiral just went "You know what, all the destroyers attack", at which point they mowed through the Japanese destroyers like a Grim Reaper through a harvest of very, very dead gorn, especially with the Brooklyns in support.

派生語

• mow down
• mower
• push-mow
• remow

関連する語

• aftermath, math
• mead, meadow

名詞

mow (複数形 mows)

1. The act of mowing (a garden, grass, etc.).

   The lawn hasn't had a mow for a couple of months, so it's like a jungle out there!

2. (cricket) A shot played with a sweeping or scythe-like motion.
   • 1828, Sporting Magazine (volume 21? 71? page 10)

     I consider it would engender a stiff, tame, cautious mode of play, with only now and then a mow, or a chopping hit.

   • 2015, Lawrence Booth, The Shorter Wisden 2015:

     At times, they seemed to be playing an especially orgiastic version of Stick Cricket, all computerised mows over midwicket and 30 off the over.

語源 2

Middle English mowe, from Middle French moue (“lip, pout”), from Old French moe (“grimace”), from Frankish *mauwa (“pout, protruding lip”), from Proto-Germanic *mawwō (“muff, sleeve”). Akin to Middle Dutch mouwe (“protruding lip”). Cognate to moue (“pout”).

発音

• (英国用法) IPA^(key): /məʊ/
• (米国用法) IPA^(key): /moʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊ

名詞

mow (複数形 mows)

1. (now only dialectal) A scornful grimace; a wry face. [from 14th c.]
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.212:

     Those that paint them dying […] delineate the prisoners spitting in their executioners faces, and making mowes at them.

   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

     Make mows at him.

動詞

mow (三人称単数 現在形 mows, 現在分詞 mowing, 過去形および過去分詞形 mowed)

1. To make grimaces, mock.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

     For every trifle are they set upon me: / Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me, / And after bite me;

   • 1848, William Tyndale, edited by Henry Walter, Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scriptures:

     Nodding, becking, and mowing.

語源 3

古期英語 mūga. Cognate with Norwegian muge (“heap, crowd, flock”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /maʊ̯/
• Rhymes: -aʊ

名詞

mow (複数形 mows)

1. (now regional) A stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans.
2. The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.

動詞

mow (三人称単数 現在形 mows, 現在分詞 mowing, 過去形および過去分詞形 mowed)

1. (agriculture) To put into mows.

名詞

mow (複数形 mows)

1. Alternative form of mew (a seagull)

参考

• Mow in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

アナグラム

• OMW, WMO, WOM