rallyとは

語源 1

From Old French ralier (French rallier), from Latin prefix re- + ad + ligare (“to bind; to ally”).

名詞

rally (複数形 rallies)

1. A demonstration; an event where people gather together to protest for or against a given cause
2. (squash (sport), table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a point.
3. (motor racing) An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals. The winner is the driver who completes all stages with the shortest cumulative time.
4. (business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices (said of the market, stocks, etc.)

下位語

• (increase in value): dead cat bounce

動詞

rally (三人称単数 現在形 rallies, 現在分詞 rallying, 過去形および過去分詞形 rallied)

1. To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
2. To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.
   • Dryden

     The Grecians rally, and their powers unite.

   • Tillotson

     Innumerable parts of matter chanced just then to rally together, and to form themselves into this new world.

3. To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
4. (business, trading) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.

同意語

• (gather, unite, especially troops): muster
• (increase in value): bounce back, rebound

反意語

• (increase in value): decline

派生語

• rallying point

語源 2

From French railler. See rail (“to scoff”).

動詞

rally (三人称単数 現在形 rallies, 現在分詞 rallying, 過去形および過去分詞形 rallied)

1. (transitive) To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.
   • Addison

     Honeycomb […] raillies me upon a country life.

   • John Gay

     Strephon had long confessed his amorous pain / Which gay Corinna rallied with disdain.

   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

     So the athletic Magnolia instantly impounded the little lieutenant, and began to rally him, in the sort of slang she delighted in, with plenty of merriment and malice upon his tendre for Miss Chattesworth, and made the gallant young gentleman blush and occasionally smile, and bow a great deal, and take some snuff.

名詞

rally (uncountable)

1. Good-humoured raillery.

参照

• rally in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

アナグラム

• Ryall