skullとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English sculle, scolle (also schulle, scholle), probably from Old Norse skalli (“bald head, skull”), itself probably related to 古期英語 sċealu (“husk”). Compare Swedish skalle, Norwegian skalle. ^[1]

Alternatively, perhaps from Old Norse skoltr, skolptr (“muzzle, snout”), akin to Icelandic skoltur (“jaw”), dialectal Swedish skult, skulle (“dome, crown of the head, skull”), Middle Dutch scolle, scholle, Middle Low German scholle, schulle (“clod, sod”). Compare also Old High German sciula, skiula (“skull”).

別の表記

• scull (廃れた用法)

発音

• enPR: skŭl, IPA^(key): /skʌl/
• Homophone: scull
• Rhymes: -ʌl

名詞

skull (複数形 skulls)

1. (anatomy) The main bones of the head considered as a unit; including the cranium, facial bones, and mandible.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1

     He was about to roar when, lying among the black sticks and straw under the cliff, he saw a whole skull—perhaps a cow's skull, a skull, perhaps, with the teeth in it. Sobbing, but absent-mindedly, he ran farther and farther away until he held the skull in his arms.

2. These bones as a symbol for death; death's-head.
3. (figuratively) The mind or brain.
   • 2006, Bart Yates, The Brothers Bishop:

     My thoughts are flying around in my skull like fireflies in a jar, but all of a sudden I'm unbearably tired and can't stay awake.

4. A crust formed on the ladle, etc. by the partial cooling of molten metal.
5. The crown of the headpiece in armour.
6. (Scotland) A shallow bow-handled basket.

同意語

• brainpan
• harnpan

Meronyms

• Thesaurus:skull

等位語

• cranium

派生語

参考

• bone

動詞

skull (三人称単数 現在形 skulls, 現在分詞 skulling, 過去形および過去分詞形 skulled)

1. To hit in the head with a fist, a weapon, or a thrown object.
2. (transitive, golf) To strike the top of (the ball).
   • 2002, Robert C. Knox, Golf Balls Are Female (page 148)

     Monte swung so hard at the next ball that he skulled it straight right, into the pond: 8 in, 9 out.

参照

語源 2

See school (“a multitude”).

名詞

skull (複数形 skulls)

1. Obsolete form of school (“a multitude”).
   • 1586, William Warner, Albion’s England:

     A knavish skull of boys and girls did pelt at him.

   • 1601, Philemon Holland (translator), Pliny the Elder (author), The Historie of the World. Commonly called, The Natvrall Historie of C. Plinivs Secvndvs., book IX, chapter xv: “Of the names and natures of many fishes.”:

     These fishs, togither with the old Tunies and the young, called Pelamides, enter in great flotes and skulls, into the sea Pontus, for the sweet food that they there find: and every companie of them hath their fever all leaders and captaines; and before them all, the Maquerels lead the way; which, while they be in the water, have a colour of brimstone; but without, like they be to the rest.