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語源 1

From Middle English schore, from 古期英語 *sċora (attested as sċor- in placenames), from Proto-Germanic *skurô (“rugged rock, cliff, high rocky shore”). Possibly related to 古期英語 sċieran (“to cut”), which survives today as English shear.

Cognate with Middle Dutch scorre (“land washed by the sea”), Middle Low German schor (“shore, coast, headland”), Middle High German schorre ("rocky crag, high rocky shore"; > German Schorre, Schorren (“towering rock, crag”)), and Limburgish sjaor (“riverbank”). Maybe connected with Norwegian Bokmål skjær.

名詞

shore (複数形 shores)

1. Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.

   lake shore;  bay shore;  gulf shore;  island shore;  mainland shore;  river shore;  estuary shore;  pond shore;  sandy shore;  rocky shore

   • 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Visions of the Worlds Vanitie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:

     the fruitful shore of muddy Nile

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges […] : or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.

2. (from the perspective of one on a body of water) Land, usually near a port.

   The seamen were serving on shore instead of in ships.

   The passengers signed up for shore tours.

使用する際の注意点

• Generally, only the largest of rivers, which are often estuaries, are said to have shores.
• Rivers and other flowing bodies of water are said to have banks.
• River bank(s) outnumbers River shore(s) about 200:3 at COCA.

下位語

• (land adjoining a large body of water): beach, headland, coast

派生語

関連する語

• longshoreman
• shorage

動詞

shore (三人称単数 現在形 shores, 現在分詞 shoring, 過去形および過去分詞形 shored)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To arrive at the shore
   • 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:

     the ship quickened her way, and shot past that rocke, where wee thought shee would have shored.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To put ashore^[1].
   • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:

     I will bring these two moles, these blind ones, aboard him: if he think it fit to shore them again

語源 2

From Late Middle English shore (“a prop, a support”) [and other forms],^[2] from Middle Dutch schore, schare (“a prop, a stay”) (modern Dutch schoor), and Middle Low German schōre, schāre (“a prop, a stay; barrier; stockade”) (compare Old Norse skorða (“a prop, a stay”) (Norwegian skor, skorda)); further etymology unknown.^[3]

名詞

shore (複数形 shores)

1. A prop or strut supporting some structure or weight above it.

   The shores stayed upright during the earthquake.

語源 3

From Late Middle English shoren (“to prop, to support”) [and other forms],^[4][5] from Middle English shore (“a prop, a support”) (see etymology 2) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive form of verbs);^[6] compare Middle Dutch schooren (“to prop up, support”) and Middle Low German schore (“to shovel; to sweep”).

派生語

• dogshore

動詞

shore (三人称単数 現在形 shores, 現在分詞 shoring, 過去形および過去分詞形 shored) (transitive)

1. Not followed by up: to provide (something) with support.

   Synonyms: buttress, reinforce, strengthen, support

   • 1990, Christopher Gravett, Richard Hook, Medieval Siege Warfare, page 45:

     If houses were present these could be used to conceal the mine opening. As the mine progressed the roof was shored with timbers.

   • 1993, Jim Trefethen, Wooden Boat Renovation: New Life for Old Boats using Modern Methods, page 106:

     Sometimes it's easier to laminate the strips one at a time, shoring each in place only long enough for the epoxy to set.

   • 1999, Vincent J. M. Di Maio, Gunshot Wounds, page 94:

     These are called shored exit wounds. They are characterized by a broad, irregular band of abrasion of the skin around the exit. In such wounds the skin is reinforced, or "shored," by a firm surface at the instant the bullet exits.

   • 1999, William P. Spence, Carpentry & Building Construction: A Do-It-Yourself Guide, page 14:

     It must provide the same degree of protection offered by a complete shoring system. Shoring Excavations Shallow trenches can be shored using wood sheet piling braced by stringers and rakers

2. Usually followed by up: to reinforce (something at risk of failure).

   Synonyms: bolster, prop up

   My family shored me up after I failed the GED.

   The workers were shoring up the dock after part of it fell into the water.

   • 1811, Robert Kerr, A General History of Voyages and Travels to the End of the 18th Century, volume III, page 342:

     ... but his caravels were so much worm-eaten and shattered by storms that he could not reach that island, and was forced to run them on shore in a creek on the coast of Jamaica, where he shored them upright with spars

派生語

• shore up
• shorer
• shoring (noun)
• unshored

語源 4

See shear.

動詞

shore

1. simple past of shear
   • 1954, J R R Tolkien, “Shelob's Lair”, in The Two Towers: The second part of The Lord of the Rings, 2nd edition, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1966, page 331:

     Then Frodo stepped up to the great grey net, and hewed it with a wide sweeping stroke[…]. The blue-gleaming blade shore through them like a scythe through grass […].

   Synonym: sheared

語源 5

Originally, common-shore

名詞

shore (複数形 shores)

1. (obsolete except Scotland) A sewer^[7].
   • c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon,  […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act 4, scene 6]:

     Emptie olde receptacles, or common-shores of filthe.

   • 1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     I need not mention the old common-shore of Rome.

語源 6

Perhaps a variant of score or sure, equivalent to assure.

動詞

shore (三人称単数 現在形 shores, 現在分詞 shoring, 過去形および過去分詞形 shored) (transitive, Scotland, archaic)

1. To threaten or warn (someone).
2. To offer (someone).

副詞

shore (comparative more shore, superlative most shore)

1. Pronunciation spelling of sure.

参照

Further reading

• “shore”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

アナグラム

• H-O-R-S-E, H.O.R.S.E., HORSE, Horse, RSeOH, Rohes, hoers, horse, hoser, shero, shoer