tramとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

An old-fashioned tram alongside a more modern tram (sense 1) in Stockholm, Sweden

A tram (sense 4) on the Roosevelt Island Tramway in New York City, New York, 米国発音A

A horse tram (sense 6) in Douglas, Isle of Man

• enPR: trăm, IPA^(key): /tɹæm/
• 韻: -æm

語源 1

Possibly from Low German traam (“tram, shaft of a barrow”), from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch trame (“narrow shaft, beam”), said to be ultimately from a lost West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) word,^[1] probably from Proto-Germanic *drum (“splinter, fragment”), from Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥ (“peg, post, boundary”), cognate with Latin terminus.^[2]

Compare Middle Low German treme; West Flemish traam, trame.

The popular derivation from the surname of the English pioneer tramway builder Benjamin Outram (1764–1805) is false: the term pre-dated him.^[3]

名詞

tram (複数形 trams)

1. (Australia, Britain, rail transport) A passenger vehicle for public use that runs on tracks in the road (called a streetcar または trolley in North America).
   • 1981, Brendan Behan, Peter Fallon, editor, After the Wake: Twenty-one Prose Works including Previously Unpublished Material (Classic Irish Fiction Series), Dublin: The O'Brien Press, →ISBN:

     Lizzie and she got a dozen of large bottles and the loan of a basket and we got a currant pan and a half-pound of cooked ham in the shop next door and got on the tram for Whitehall.

   Synonyms: streetcar, trolley

2. A similar vehicle for carrying materials.
   • 1789, John Brand, History and Antiquities of the Town and County of Newcastle upon Tyne: Including an Account of the Coal Trade of that Place, volume II, London: White, OCLC 630368783, page 681:

     Trams are a kind of sledge on which coals are brought from the place where they are hewn to the shaft. A tram has four wheels but a sledge is without wheels.

3. (US, rail transport) A people mover.
   • 2013, Ernest Adams, “Storytelling”, in Fundamentals of Game Design, 3rd edition, [San Francisco, Calif.]: New Riders, →ISBN, page 215:

     The game Half-Life, for example, begins with a movie in which Gordon Freeman, the player's avatar, takes a tram ride through the Black Mesa research complex while a voice explains why he is there.

4. (US) An aerial cable car.
   • 2014, Vivienne Gucwa, “Skylines”, in NY through the Lens, Cincinnati, Oh.: Print Books, →ISBN, page 129:

     It's possible that my family took the tram to Roosevelt Island at some point and the experience embedded itself deep into my imagination where it mixed with other flights of fancy (pun intended) of flying through a Gotham-like city like Batman.

5. (US) A train with wheels that runs on a road; a trackless train.
   • 2005, Jan Friedman, Eccentric California, Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire: Bradt Travel Guides, →ISBN, page 124:

     Taking advantage of the VIP Experience at Universal Studios provides a more intimate and authentic look at the studio than does the regular studio tram tour. […] The VIP Experience gets you off the tram and behind the scenes: into sound stages, prop warehouses, and production facilities and on the sets of shows in production.

   • 2007, Matthew Richard Poole, Frommer's Los Angeles 2008, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 236:

     Each morning, still-groggy early-bird park-goers stumble from the parking-lot tram and head straight to La Brea's cafeteria-style Express for a caffeinated pick-me-up or a meal to start the day.

6. (British, historical) A car on a horse railway or tramway (horse trams preceded electric trams).
   • 1976 [1925], Vladimir Nabokov, “A Guide to Berlin”, in Details of a Sunset and Other Stories, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 93:

     The horse-drawn tram has vanished, and so will the trolley, and some eccentric Berlin writer in the twenties of the twenty-first century, wishing to portray our time, will go to a museum of technological history and locate a hundred-year-old streetcar, yellow, uncouth, with old-fashioned curved seats […]

7. (obsolete) The shaft of a cart.
   • 1851, Thomas de Quincey, “William Wordsworth and Robert Southey”, in Literary Reminiscences; from the Autobiography of an English Opium-eater. […] In Two Volumes, volume II, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, OCLC 213734443, pages 14–15:

     What struck me with most astonishment, however, was the liberal manner of our fair driver, who made no scruple of taking a leap, with the reins in her hand, and seating herself dexterously upon the shafts (または, in Westmoreland phrase, the trams) of the cart.

8. (obsolete) One of the rails of a tramway.

派生語

派生した語

• → German: Tram
• → Hindi: ट्राम (ṭrām)
• → Urdu: ٹرام‎

参考

• cablecar
• light rail
• streetcar
• trolley car

動詞

tram (三人称単数 現在形 trams, 現在分詞 tramming, 過去形および過去分詞形 trammed)

1. (intransitive) To operate, or conduct the business of, a tramway.
2. (intransitive) To travel by tram.
3. (transitive) To transport (material) by tram.
4. (US, transitive) To align a component in mechanical engineering or metalworking, particularly the head of a drill press.
   • 1875 October 29, James T. Beckwith, “[Patent number] 171,974. Leveling and Tramming Apparatus for Millstones. James T. Beckwith, Cameron Mills, N.Y. [Filed Oct. 29, 1875.]”, in Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office for January, 1876: Patents No. 171,641 to 172,817; Reissues No. 6,831 to 6,885, Inclusive, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, published 1876, OCLC 8836326, page 315, column 1:

     My invention consists of a frame suspended from another frame, on which the stone rests, and is leveled by screws from below, on which suspended frame are screws, which, being adjusted in the frame when the stone is first leveled by its face, serve afterward to level the stone at any time without removing the runner, and this lower frame serves for tramming the spindle; […]

語源 2

From Spanish trama, or French trame (“weft”). Doublet of trama.

名詞

tram (複数形 trams)

1. (weaving) A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods.
   • 1951, F[rederick] J[ohn] Christopher, “Materials and Quantities”, in Hand-loom Weaving, London: Frederick Muller, OCLC 559101267:

     The two types of silk of greatest interest to the hand weaver are known as Organzine and Tram. Organzine is a warp silk and is made from two or more single threads twisted together in the opposite direction from the original twist. Tram is a weft silk and it is made from two or more singles lightly twisted together.

   • 2011, Nancy C. Britton, “Reconciling Conservation and Interpretation: Strategies for Long-term Display of a Late Seventeenth-century Bed”, in Kathryn Gill and Dinah Eastop, editors, Upholstery Conservation: Principles and Practice, Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 64, column 2:

     Analysis of the seventeenth-century damask revealed that both its warp and weft were silk filaments; the organzine warp was dyed a dark blue and the tram silk of the weft was a somewhat lighter blue.

動詞

tram (三人称単数 現在形 trams, 現在分詞 tramming, 過去形および過去分詞形 trammed)

1. (weaving) To weave in this manner.

参照

Further reading

• tram on Wikipedia.
• tram (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• Mart., RATM, mart, matr-, tarm