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発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: lĭng; IPA: /lɪŋ/
• 韻: -ɪŋ

語源 1

From 中期英語 lenge, of Germanic origin. Cognate with Old Norse langa. Probably related to long.

名詞

ling (countable and uncountable, plural lings or ling)

1. Any of various codlike saltwater fish often used as food by humans, those of the genus Molva, in the family Lotidae.

   Hypernyms: lotid < gadid < gadiform < fish < vertebrate < animal < organism < creature

   Coordinate terms: (fellow lotid) cusk, torsk, tusk; (other commercially important gadiforms) cod (Gadus sense), cod (Gadus morhue sense), hake, haddock, pollock, whiting

   • 1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times‎:

     Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.

   1. (especially) A common ling (Molva molva).

派生語

• blue ling (Molva dypterygia)
• lingcod
• common ling (Molva molva)

語源 2

From 中期英語 ling, linge, from Old Norse lyng.

名詞

ling (countable and uncountable, plural lings or ling)

1. Any of various varieties of heather or broom.
   1. Common heather (Calluna vulgaris)
      • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 28:

        I was sitting by a path on a tussock between some bushes, whence I could overlook the path and a little valley to which it led down, and where nothing but ling and heather grew.

      • 1931, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Five Red Herrings:

        Partridges, enjoying their last weeks of security, rose whirring and clattering from among the ling.

派生語

語源 3

名詞

ling (uncountable)

1. (informal) Clipping of linguistics.

アナグラム

• lign-

名詞

ling

1. (County Durham) alternative form of lenge (“ling”)

語源 2

From Old Norse lyng.

名詞

ling

1. Any of various varieties of heather or broom.