peelとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /piːl/
  • IPA^(key): [pʰiːɫ], [pʰiəɫ]
• 韻: -iːl
• Homophone: peal

語源 1

From Middle English pelen itself from 古期英語 pilian and Old French peler, pellier, both from Latin pilō, pilāre (“to remove hair from, depilate”), from pilus (“hair”). Doublet of pill.

動詞

peel (三人称単数 現在形 peels, 現在分詞 peeling, 過去形および過去分詞形 peeled)

1. (transitive) To remove the skin or outer covering of.

   I sat by my sister's bed, peeling oranges for her.

   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

     The skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands.

2. (transitive) To remove something from the outer or top layer of.

   I peeled (the skin from) a banana and ate it hungrily.

   We peeled the old wallpaper off in strips where it was hanging loose.

3. (intransitive) To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.

   I had been out in the sun too long, and my nose was starting to peel.

4. (intransitive) To remove one's clothing.

   The children peeled by the side of the lake and jumped in.

5. (intransitive) To move, separate (off または away).

   The scrum-half peeled off and made for the touchlines.

同意語

• (remove outer covering): skin, strip
• (remove clothing): disrobe, strip

派生語

名詞

peel (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 peels)

1. (usually uncountable) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
2. (countable, rugby) The action of peeling away from a formation.
3. (countable) A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.

同意語

• (skin of a fruit): rind, zest

派生語

語源 2

From Middle English peel, pele, from Anglo-Norman pel (compare modern French pieu), from Latin pālus (“stake”). Doublet of pole and pale.

名詞

peel (複数形 peels)

1. (obsolete) A stake.
2. (obsolete) A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
3. (archaic) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.

派生語

• peel-house, peelhouse
• peel-tower

語源 3

From Middle English pele, from Old French pele (modern French pelle), from Latin pāla, from the base of plangere (“fix, plant”). Doublet of pala.

名詞

peel (複数形 peels)

1. A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
2. A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
3. (archaic, US) The blade of an oar.

語源 4

Unknown.

名詞

peel (複数形 peels)

1. (Scotland, curling) An equal or match; a draw.
2. (curling) A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.

動詞

peel (三人称単数 現在形 peels, 現在分詞 peeling, 過去形および過去分詞形 peeled)

1. (curling) To play a peel shot.

語源 5

Named from Walter H. Peel, a noted 19th-century croquet player.

動詞

peel (三人称単数 現在形 peels, 現在分詞 peeling, 過去形および過去分詞形 peeled)

1. (croquet) To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).

語源 6

Old French piller (“pillage”).

動詞

peel (三人称単数 現在形 peels, 現在分詞 peeling, 過去形および過去分詞形 peeled)

1. (archaic, transitive) To plunder; to pillage, rob.
   • 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 4:

     But govern ill the nations under yoke, / Peeling their provinces.

   • 1645, James Howell, “England’s Tears, for the Present Wars, which for the Nature of the Quarrel, the Quality of the Strength, the Diversity of Battels, Skirmishes, Encounters, and Sieges, (Happened in so Short a Compasse of Time) Cannot be Parallel’d in Any Precedent Age”, in ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]: Dodona’s Grove, or The Vocall Forrest. The Third Edition More Exact and Perfect than the Former; with the Addition of Two Other Tracts: viz. Englands Tears for the Present Wars. And The Pre-eminence of Parlements, 3rd edition, Cambridge: Printed by R. D. for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop at the Prince's Arms in S. Pauls Church-yard, →OCLC, page 189:

     O conſider my caſe, moſt blisfull Queen, […] Diſpell thoſe Clouds which hover 'twixt my King and his higheſt Counſell, […] that my great Law-making Court be forced to turn no more to polemicall Committees, […] but that they may come again to the old Parliamentary Rode, To the path of their Predeceſſours, to conſult of means how to ſweep away thoſe Cobwebs that hang in the Courts of Juſtice, and to make the Laws run in their right Channell; to retrench exceſſive fees, and finde remedies for the future, that the poor Client be not ſo peeled by his Lawyer, and made to ſuffer by ſuch monſtrous delays, that one may go from one Tropick to the other, and croſſe the Equinoctiall twenty times, before his ſute be done; […]

名詞

peel (複数形 peels)

1. Alternative form of peal (“a small または young salmon”)

動詞

peel

1. Misspelling of peal: to sound loudly.
   • 1825 June 25, "My Village Bells", in The Circulator of Useful Knowledge, Literature, Amusement, and General Information number XXVI, available in, 1825, The Circulator of Useful Amusement, Literature, Science, and General Information, page 401,

     Oh ! still for me let merry bells peel out their holy chime;

   • 1901 January 1, "Twentieth Century's Triumphant Entry", The New York Times, page 1,

     The lights flashed, the crowds sang,... bells peeled, bombs thundered,... and the new Century made its triumphant entry.

   • 2006, Miles Richardson, Being-In-Christ and Putting Death in Its Place, Louisiana State University Press, →ISBN, pages 230–231:

     As the tiny Virgin... approaches one of the barrio churches, bells peel vigorously, a brass band launches into a fast-paced tune, and large rockets zoom... .

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