silveryとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪlvəɹi/, /ˈsɪlvɹi/

形容詞

silvery (comparative silverier, superlative silveriest)

1. Resembling silver in color, shiny white.
   • 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, OCLC 1033416756:

     OF all th' enamell'd race, whose silvery wing / Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring.

   • 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 98:

     Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows feeding unconcernedly for the most part, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.

   • 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:

     Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.

2. Sprinkled or covered with silver.
3. Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound.

   a silvery laugh

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, OCLC 1167497017:

     The hand grasped the curtain, and drew it aside, and as it did so I heard a voice, I think the softest and yet most silvery voice I ever heard.

同意語

• silvern (古風な用法)

派生語

名詞

silver Y (複数形 silver Ys)

1. A species of moth, Autographa gamma, having a distinctive Y-shaped mark on its forewings.
   • 1992, BBC Wildlife, vol. 11, p. 69:

     The differences between the silver-y moth and its two newly described siblings – Autographa messmeri and A. voelkeri – are rather less obvious.

   • 2015, Norman Maclean, A Less Green and Pleasant Land, p. 223:

     There are a few day-flying exceptions such as hummingbird hawk-moths, silver Ys, cinnabars, scarlet tigers and burnets but, in general, knowledge of moths lags behind that of butterflies.

   • 2016, Patrick Barkham, The Guardian, 11 July:

     Ronaldo’s moth was one of thousands of Silver Y moths, a migratory species that moves north through Europe each summer in search of new breeding grounds, returning south in the autumn.

同意語

• Y-moth

アナグラム

• slivery