vanishとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: văn'ĭsh, IPA^(key): /ˈvænɪʃ/
  • 韻: -ænɪʃ
  • ハイフネーション: van‧ish

動詞

vanish (三人称単数 現在形 vanishes, 現在分詞 vanishing, 過去形および過去分詞形 vanished)

1. To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
   • 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Three. The Second of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], OCLC 55746801, pages 79–80:

     Holly, mistletoe, red berries, ivy, turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, meat, pigs, sausages, oysters, pies, puddings, fruit, and punch, all vanished instantly.

   • 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart; Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, OCLC 20230794, page 01:

     The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.

2. (mathematics) To become equal to zero.

   The function ${\displaystyle f(x)=x^{2}}$ vanishes at ${\displaystyle x=0}$.

3. (transitive) to disappear; to kidnap
   • 2011, Patrick Meaney, Our Sentence Is Up: Seeing Grant Morrison's the Invisibles, Sequart (→ISBN), page 330:

     And as if to prove it, one of his friends was vanished and was never seen again. The guy got in a taxi one night, and no one ever saw him ever again.

   • 2004, John Varley, The John Varley Reader, Penguin (→ISBN)

     It was whispered that men had been “vanished” by the Line and returned everted. Turned inside out.

同意語

• disappear

派生語

• vanishing point
• vanishing spray

関連する語

• vain

名詞

vanish (複数形 vanishes)

1. (phonetics) The brief terminal part of a vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part.

   a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill.

   o as in old ordinarily ends with a vanish of oo as in foot.

   • 1827, James Rush, The Philosophy of the Human Voice

     The median stres may also on a protracted quantity , slightly resemble respectively that of the radical and of the vanish , by sudenly enlarging in the course of the prolongation and gradualy diminishing ; and by the reverse

2. A magic trick in which something seems to disappear.

   The French drop is a well-known vanish involving sleight of hand.

参考

• glide