silverとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪl.və/
• (General American) enPR: sĭl'vər IPA^(key): /ˈsɪl.vɚ/
• 韻: -ɪlvə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: sil‧ver

名詞

silver (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 silvers)

1. (uncountable) A lustrous, white, metallic element, atomic number 47, atomic weight 107.87, symbol Ag.
2. (collectively) Coins made from silver or any similar white metal.
3. (collectively) Cutlery and other eating utensils, whether silver or made from some other white metal.
4. (collectively) Any items made from silver or any other white metal.
5. (countable) A shiny gray color.

   silver colour:  

6. Anything resembling silver; something shiny and white.
   • 1909, H. G. Wells, The Beautiful Suit

     And next morning they found him dead, with his neck broken, in the bottom of the stone pit, with his beautiful clothes a little bloody, and foul and stained with the duckweed from the pond. But his face was a face of such happiness that, had you seen it, you would have understood indeed how that he had died happy, never knowing that cool and streaming silver for the duckweed in the pond.

同意語

• (metallic element): argyr-
• (white-metal coins): argyr-
• (cutlery かつ other eating utensils): silverware
• E174 (when used as a food colouring)

派生語

関連する語

• quicksilver
• silver glance, silver-glance
• silverling
• silvern
• thirty pieces of silver

派生した語

• Jamaican Creole: silva
• → Maori: hiriwa
• → Zulu: isiliva

形容詞

silver (comparative more silver, superlative most silver)

Silver Roman artwork

1. Made from silver.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 10, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.

   • 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:

     But Richmond […] appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw, peeping around the massive silver epergne that almost obscured him from her view, that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.

2. Made from another white metal.
3. Having a color like silver: a shiny gray.
4. Denoting the twenty-fifth anniversary, especially of a wedding.
   • 1994, “Mate matching” in Accent on Living, v 38, n 4 (Spring), p 52:

     Mostly, these have been relationships of 10 or less years. However, one respondent has celebrated her silver wedding anniversary.

5. (of commercial services) Premium, but inferior to gold.
6. Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound.

   a silver-voiced young girl

同意語

• (made from silver): silvern (古風な用法)
• (having a color like silver): silvery

関連する語

• silver-feast
• silver wedding

派生語

参考

動詞

silver (三人称単数 現在形 silvers, 現在分詞 silvering, 過去形および過去分詞形 silvered)

1. To acquire a silvery colour.
   • (Can we date this quote by Lewis Wallace かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     The eastern sky began to silver and shine.

   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony— a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.

2. To cover with silver, or with a silvery metal.

   to silver a pin;  to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury

3. To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver.
   • 1725, Homer; [Alexander Pope], transl., “Book X”, in The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume III, London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, OCLC 8736646:

     And smiling calmness silvered o'er the deep.

4. To make hoary, or white, like silver.
   • (Can we date this quote by John Gay かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     His head was silvered o'er with age.

Further reading

• “Silver” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database^[1], 1997–.
• “silver”, in Mindat.org‎^[2], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016.

アナグラム

• Elvirs, levirs, livers, livres, rivels, sliver, svirel