varnishとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 vernisch, vernish, from Old French vernis, from Medieval Latin vernix, veronix, from Byzantine Greek Βερενίκη (Bereníkē, “Berenice”), a town in Cyrenaica, now called Benghazi.

発音

• IPA: /ˈvɑː(ɹ)nɪʃ/
• 韻: -ɑː(ɹ)nɪʃ

名詞

varnish (countable and uncountable, plural varnishes)

1. A clear or translucent liquid coating composed of resin dissolved in a solvent, which dries by evaporation to form a hard, protective, and typically glossy finish.
   • 1847, editorial staff, “White Hard Spirit of Wine Varnish”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 9, page 72:

     ..; and this process should be continued until all the gum is properly dissolved, which is easily known by having an empty tin can to pour the varnish into, until near the last, which is to be poured into a gallon measure;...

2. Anything resembling such a coating; a glossy appearance.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     the varnish of the holly and ivy

3. (figuratively, by extension) A deceptively showy appearance.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii]:

     And set a double varnish on the fame / The Frenchman gave you.

4. (rail transport, US, informal, dated) A passenger train, probably derived from the varnished passenger cars used at one time.
   • 1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co.:

     Every transcontinental but two settled on the simple articulated for freight service, and all of them coupled their varnish to the 4-8-4.

派生語

派生した語

• → Japanese: ワニス (wanisu)
• → Mokilese: parnij, wanis

動詞

varnish (third-person singular simple present varnishes, present participle varnishing, simple past and past participle varnished)

1. (intransitive) To apply varnish.
2. (transitive) To cover up with varnish.
3. (transitive) To make something superficially or deceptively attractive

   varnish the report

4. (transitive) To gloss over a defect.
   • 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”, in Essays: First Series:

     [...] Go love thy infant; love thy wood-chopper: be good-natured and modest: have that grace; and never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home.

派生語

アナグラム

• Harvins, Shirvan, hrivnas