podとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒd/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑd/
• 韻: -ɒd
• Homophone: pawed (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

名詞

pod (複数形 pods)

1. (botany) A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod.

   Synonyms: capsule, case, container, hull, husk, shell, seedpod, vessel

2. A small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations.
3. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A bag; a pouch.

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4. (collective, zoology) A group of whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises or hippopotami.

   Synonym: gam

5. A small section of a larger office, compartmentalised for a specific purpose.
6. A subsection of a prison, containing a number of inmates.
7. A nicotine cartridge.

下位語

派生語

• like two peas in a pod

動詞

pod (三人称単数 現在形 pods, 現在分詞 podding, 過去形および過去分詞形 podded)

1. (intransitive) To bear or produce pods
   • 1849, Herman Melville, Mardi, and a Voyage Thither:

     Wherefore it was, that many ignorant Mardians, who had not pushed their investigations into the science of physiology, sagely divined, that the Tapparians must have podded into life like peas, instead of being otherwise indebted for their existence.

   • 1939, Leonard Alfred George Strong, The Open Sky, page 64:

     David looked seawards along the river. He stared, rubbed his eyes, and stared again. One of the rocks seemed to have podded into something swollen, black and smooth.

   • 2012, Deborah Moggach, You Must Be Sisters, →ISBN, page 219:

     In the herbaceous border many flowers had seeded and podded; spears of them, brown, now rose up behind the mauve blur of the michaelmas daisies.

2. (transitive) To remove peas from their case.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To put into a pod or to enter a pod.
   • 1955, Military Review - Volume 35, Issue 9, page 81:

     Thus the torpedoes will have to be stored internally or be podded into streamline containers.

   • 1957, Aviation Week - Volume 66, page 23:

     Lycoming is working on a twin T53 or T55 turboprop installation whereby two engines would be podded together to drive a single propeller.

   • 2004, Yefim Gordon & ‎Dmitriy Komissarov, Antonov An-12 Cub, page 90:

     One, called An- 12BZ-2, was a single-point hose-and- drogue tanker similar to the RAF's Lockheed C-130K Hercules C.1K, except that the hose drum unit was podded, not built in.

   • 2006, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society - Volume 59, page 130:

     This was to be achieved by increasing the number of Lotarev D-18T engines to 8 by podding the inboard pylons on each side to take two engines (see Fig. 7).

   • 2011, Roger Cliff, ‎Chad J. R. Ohlandt, & ‎David Yang, Ready for Takeoff: China's Advancing Aerospace Industry, →ISBN:

     In June 2009, the company opened another facility in Tianjin to provide nacelle and thrust-reverser MRO services and to support engine buildup and podding work for the new Airbus A320 assembly line in the same city.

   • 2012, Gabriel Blue Melchizedek, The Alienvirus, →ISBN:

     Then i was podded by a buddie of mine, working the burrough next to mine, all humans had a blue rabbit glow around them and seemed to sleep walk out of the burrough out in to a field while a sound like; ta-ta-dah-taaa, sounded continously, where they waited while looking up in the sky.

4. (intransitive) To swell or fill.

アナグラム

• DOP, DPO, ODP, PDO, dop

接尾辞

-pod

1. Related to or resembling a foot or similar limb.

派生語

関連する語

• -poda
• podite, -podite
• podiatrist (“foot doctor”)

アナグラム

• DOP, DPO, ODP, PDO, dop

語源

Euphemistic and abbreviated form of pissed off.

形容詞

PO'd (comparative more PO'd, superlative most PO'd)

1. (colloquial, euphemistic) Annoyed; irritated; angry; fed up.
   • 1972, Patrick M. McGrady, The love doctors, page 356:

     Wilbur was PO'd, of course. Didn't speak to her for six hours ...

   • 2008, William Frank Buckley, The Reagan I Knew, page 198:

     ... told Nancy he was PO'd up to his keister with--pause! ...

アナグラム

• DOP, DPO, ODP, PDO, dop

派生語

アナグラム

• DOP, DPO, ODP, PDO, dop