teerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: tîr, tēr
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /tɪə̯/, /tɪː/; /tiːɹ/
• (General American) IPA: /tɪ(ə̯)ɹ/; /tiɹ/
• (Canada) IPA: /tɪɹ/; /tiɹ/
• (General Australian) IPA: /tɪə̯/; /tiːɹ/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /tiə̯/; /tiːɹ/
• (Scotland) IPA: /tiɹ/; /tiɹ/
• (India) IPA: /ʈɪjɜ̯(ː)(ɾ)/, /ʈiːɾ/; /ʈiːɾ/
• ハイフネーション: teer

動詞

teer (third-person singular simple present teers, present participle teering, simple past and past participle teered)

1. (transitive) To stir, as a calico-printer's sieve.

Further reading

• “teer, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “teer”, in Urban Dictionary, launched 1999.
• “teer, v.”, in Collins English Dictionary, accessed 7 March 2026.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “teer, v.”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes V (Simular–Z), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 6211, column 2.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “teer, v.”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 6211, column 2.

アナグラム

• TREE, Tree, reet, rete, tree

別の表記

• teere, ter, tere
• tær, tear (Early Middle English)
• tyer, tyear, tyar (Kent)

発音

• IPA: /tɛ̝ːr/

名詞

teer (plural teres or (early) teren)

1. A tear (drop of liquid from the eyes):
   1. A tear as a symptom of disease or injury.
   2. An emotionally-triggered tear (e.g. ecstasy, remorse, sadness, sympathy)
2. A drop of liquid resembling a teardrop.
3. (figuratively) The feeling of teariness or distress.

使用する際の注意点

• This noun usually appears in the plural.

関連する語

• teren
• tery

派生した語

• English: tear
• Middle Scots: tear, tere, teir, tichwr, tychir
  • Scots: tear, taer, tare, teir

参照

• “tēr(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 25 December 2018.

語源 2

Borrowed from Middle Dutch têer, alternative form of têder, têeder (whence modern Dutch teder), from Old Dutch *tidar, from Proto-Germanic *tidaraz.

別の表記

• teere, ter, tere

発音

• IPA: /tɛːr/

形容詞

teer

1. Of good quality or manners.

派生した語

• English: tear, tare (“good flax”) (obsolete)

参照

• “tēr, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 25 December 2018.

語源 3

名詞

teer

1. alternative form of ter (“tar”)

語源 4

動詞

teer

1. alternative form of teren (“to ruin by removing or splitting”)