rallyとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

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

名詞

rally (複数形 rallies)

1. A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause.

   a campaign rally

   an election rally

2. A protest or demonstration for or against something, but often with speeches and often without marching, especially in North America.

   a political rally

3. (squash (sport), table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a point.
4. (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.
5. (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.
   • 2019, Louise Taylor, Alex Morgan heads USA past England into Women’s World Cup final (in The Guardian, 2 July 2019)[1]

     The USA were dominant but, to England’s immense credit, they repeatedly rallied, refusing to fold. Indeed they could conceivably have gone in level at the interval had Naeher not made an acrobatic, stretching, fingertip save to divert Walsh’s 25-yard thunderbolt as it whizzed unerringly on its apparently inexorable trajectory towards the top corner.

   • 1697, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:

     The Grecians rally, and their powers unite.

   • 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious

     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.
   • 1711 August 11, Joseph Addison; Richard Steele, “TUESDAY, July 31, 1711 [Julian calendar]”, in The Spectator, number 132; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697:

     Honeycomb […] rallies me after his way upon my country life.

   • 1713, John Gay, The Fan

     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