pianoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国用法, Canada) IPA^(key): /piˈænoʊ/
• (英国用法) IPA^(key): /piˈænəʊ/
• (廃れた用法, 一般的ではない用法) IPA^(key): /paɪˈænoʊ/^[1]

名詞

piano (plural pianos or (古風な用法) pianoes)

1. (music) a percussive keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black colored keys, played by pressing these keys, causing hammers to strike strings [from 1803]

   Synonym: (dated) pianoforte

   Coordinate terms: cembalo, clavichord, fortepiano, harpsichord, organ, synthesizer, synth

   The piano in his house takes up a lot of space.

   She has been taking lessons for many years and now plays piano very well.

派生語

動詞

piano (三人称単数 現在形 pianos, 現在分詞 pianoing, 過去形および過去分詞形 pianoed)

1. To play the piano.
   • 1967, Harry F. Chaplin, A McCrae Miscellany, page 41:

     Anyhow I pianoed to my own ear, and had no thought at that time for an audience.

   • 1978, Bertha Harris, Confessions of Cherubino, page 96:

     Who comforted me with Madeleines and lime tea, with whipped cream in my cocoa in far off Ann Arbor while others selfishly fiddled, bassooned, pianoed only for their own ugly self-advancement!

   • 2008, John Gruen, Callas Kissed Me...Lenny Too!, page 138:

     John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Arnold Weinstein, and others came to the house, taping their poems as I pianoed and zithered and drummed away.

   • 2020, Becky Manawatu, Auē, page 139:

     We guitared and drummed and head banged and pianoed.

2. (of または with fingers) To move (the fingers) up and down on, similar to the motions of a pianist playing the piano.
   • 2013, Ann Blair Kloman, A Diamond to Die For, page 29:

     He just stared at her, leaned back in his chair and pianoed his fingers along the tablecloth.

   • 2017, Kim Michele Richardson, The Sisters of Glass Ferry:

     “Jean, it ain't right how you separated those two,” he said, and pianoed the little coffin with his fingers, tapping out his grievance.

   • 2020, Simon Lelic, The Search Party:

     The superintendent pianoed his fingers on the surface of a nearby desk.

   • 2021, Emilya Naymark, Hide in Place:

     Holly pianoed her fingers over her throat.

3. To equip with a piano.
   • 1889, The Engineering Record, Building Record and Sanitary Engineer, page 128:

     Other buildings will also be erected and pianoed by the same architect.

   • 1892, The Japan Daily Mail - Volume 18, page 772:

     A tabernacle has been built, burnt, rebuilt, electric lighted, organed, pianoed, and frequently filled — all during the last two years.

参照

語源 2

From Italian piano.

発音

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /piˈɑnoʊ/, /piˈænoʊ/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /piˈɑːnəʊ/

副詞

piano (not comparable)

1. (music) softly, as a musical direction (abbreviated to p. in sheet music) [from 17th c.]

関連する語

形容詞

piano (comparative more piano, superlative most piano)

1. (music) Soft, quiet.
2. (in extended use) Gentle, soft, subdued.
   • 1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter XVIII, in Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume IV, London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:

     “Oh! yes, yes, there is not a word to be said against James Benwick […] that soft sort of manner does not do him justice.” […]
     “Well, well, ladies are the best judges; but James Benwick is rather too piano for me […] ”

   • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 160:

     ‘Tradecraft, Chris,’ Enderby put in, who liked his bit of jargon, and Martindale, still piano, shot him a glance of admiration.

動詞

piano (三人称単数 現在形 pianos, 現在分詞 pianoing, 過去形および過去分詞形 pianoed)

1. To become softer and less intense.
   • 1839, Rosina Doyle Bulwer afterwards Bulwer Lytton (Baroness Lytton.), Cheveley; Or, The Man of Honour, page 385:

     “You know, Mrs. Wrigglechops,” pianoed Miss Drucilla , even more meekly and mildly than before, "the ace is either one or eleven."

   • 2000, David R. Beasley, Aspects of Love: Three novellas, page 83:

     His tone pianoed on intimacy.

   • 2009, David Lau, Virgil and the Mountain Cat, page 61:

     A day pianoed, swelled acutest, pianoed.

Further reading

• piano on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• NAIOP