smellとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音, General American) enPR: smĕl, IPA^(key): /smɛl/
• 韻: -ɛl

名詞

smell (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 smells)

1. A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (または, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.

   I love the smell of fresh bread.

   • 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:

     The penetrating smell of cabbage reached the nose of Toad as he lay prostrate in his misery on the floor, and gave him the idea for a moment that perhaps life was not such a blank and desperate thing as he had imagined. But still he wailed, and kicked with his legs, and refused to be comforted. So the wise girl retired for the time, but, of course, a good deal of the smell of hot cabbage remained behind, as it will do, and Toad, between his sobs, sniffed and reflected, and gradually began to think new and inspiring thoughts: of chivalry, and poetry […]

2. (physiology) The sense that detects odours.
3. A conclusion or intuition that a situation is wrong, more complex than it seems, or otherwise inappropriate.
   • 2018 February 8, Schroers, Carl, chapter 8, in Wrestling with Time Lost, Lulu Press:

     I’m just saying, this has a bad smell to it.

使用する際の注意点

• Adjectives often applied to "smell": acrid, awful, bad, disgusting, fishy, foul, fragrant, fresh, funny, funky, good, great, horrible, metallic, musty, nasty, nice, odd, pervasive, penetrating, pleasant, powerful, pungent, putrid, rancid, rank, rotten, sour, spoilt, salty, strange, stinky, strong, sweet, terrible, unpleasant.

同意語

• (sensation): see Thesaurus:smell
  • (pleasant): aroma, fragrance, odor/odour, scent; see also Thesaurus:aroma
  • (unpleasant): niff (くだけた用法), pong (くだけた用法), reek, stench, stink; see also Thesaurus:stench
• (sense): olfaction (in technical use), sense of smell

下位語

派生語

動詞

smell (三人称単数 現在形 smells, 現在分詞 smelling, 過去形および過去分詞形 smelled または smelt)

1. (transitive) To sense a smell or smells.

   Synonyms: detect, sense

   I can smell fresh bread.

   Smell the milk and tell me whether it's gone off.

2. (intransitive, copulative) Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad.

   Synonyms: (くだけた用法) pong, reek, stink, (くだけた用法; these words refer to unpleasant smells) whiff

   The roses smell lovely.

   Her feet smell of cheese.

   The drunkard smelt like a brewery.

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     Philander went into the next room[...]and came back with a salt mackerel[...]. Next he put the mackerel in a fry-pan, and the shanty began to smell like a Banks boat just in from a v'yage.

3. (intransitive, without a modifier) To smell bad; to stink.

   Ew, this stuff smells.

4. (intransitive, figurative) To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.

   A report smells of calumny.

   • 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:

     Praises in an enemy are superfluous, or smell of craft.

5. To detect or perceive; often with out.
   • c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:

     I smell a device.

6. (obsolete) To give heed to.
   • 1552, Hughe Latymer [i.e., Hugh Latimer]; Augustine Bernher, compiler, “[The First Sermon]”, in Certayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer, […], London: […] John Day, […], published 1562, →OCLC, folio 5, verso:

     So from that tyme forwarde I began to ſmell the word of god, and forſoke the ſchole doctors and ſuch foolries.

7. (transitive) To smell of; to have a smell of
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

     I do smell all horse-piss

使用する際の注意点

• The sense “to smell bad, stink” is considered by some to be an incorrect (euphemistic) substitute for stink.

派生語

参考

• anosmia
• sense

参照

• “smell”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “smell”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Mells, Mlles, mells