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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈvʌltʃə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈvʌlt͡ʃɚ/
• 韻: -ʌltʃə(ɹ)

名詞

vulture (plural vultures)

1. Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae.
   • 1912, Flight‎:

     The outer third of the wing of a vulture consists of the wing tips. The inner two-thirds of the wing are cambered (when the wing is extended), and are concerned with lifting effort in unsoarable air and with lifting and tractive effort in soarable air.

   • 1982, Michael Bishop, No enemy but time:

     In clusters on the plain, like cowlless monks at matins, sat the vultures that had settled on the corpse of the hyena impaled by the female rhino […]

2. (figurative, colloquial) A person who profits from the suffering of others.

   Synonyms: ambulance chaser, vampire

   Within ten minutes of the accident, the vultures appeared and were organizing lawsuits.

下位語

派生語

動詞

vulture (third-person singular simple present vultures, present participle vulturing, simple past and past participle vultured)

1. (figurative, colloquial) To circle around one's target as if one were a vulture.

   Rudy vultured when asking the girl out.

形容詞

vulture

1. (obsolete) ravenous; rapacious
   • 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC:

     Whose vultur thought doth pitch the price so hie,
     That she will draw his lips rich treasure drie.

Further reading

• vulture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia