towelとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: toul, touʹəl
• IPA^(key): /taʊl/, /ˈtaʊ.əl/
• 韻: -aʊl, -aʊəl

名詞

towel (複数形 towels)

1. A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as a person after a bath.

下位語

• lavabo
• see also Derived terms below

派生語

派生した語

• → Japanese: タオル (taoru)

動詞

towel (三人称単数 現在形 towels, 現在分詞 toweling または towelling, 過去形および過去分詞形 toweled または towelled)

1. (transitive) To hit with a towel.
2. (transitive) To dry by using a towel.

   He got out of the shower and toweled himself dry.

3. (transitive) To block up (a door, etc.) with a towel, to conceal the fumes of a recreational drug.
   • 2012, Dave Tomar, The Shadow Scholar: How I Made a Living Helping College Kids Cheat:

     We would open the windows, towel the door, and turn my bedroom into an Allman Brothers concert.

4. (Britain, dialect, obsolete, transitive) To beat with a stick, or "oaken towel".

派生語

• towel off
• towel up
• untoweled, untowelled