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語源 1

From 中期英語 gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from 古期英語 gor (“manure, dung, filth, muck, dirt”), from Proto-West Germanic *gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot; warm”).

Cognate to Old Norse gorr, gor (“intestines, (half-digested) intestinal contents, filth, dung; peat, silt earth”).

名詞

gore (usually uncountable, plural gores)

1. Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
2. (countable, obsolete) A gout or mass of such blood.
   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 23:

     And I beheld the roof and the walls one gore of blood.

3. Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.
   • 2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club‎:

     The zombie scenes are reminiscent of what you might see on a show like The Walking Dead, short bursts of extreme violence and gore punctuating expository dialogue scenes where the survivors try to figure out how they’re going to get from point A to point B.

4. Pictures and videos of graphic violence and human death.
5. (obsolete except in dialects) Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.
   • 1508, John Fisher, Treatise concernynge […] the seven penytencyall Psalms:

     As a sowe waloweth in the stynkynge gore pytte, or in the puddell.

派生語

動詞

gore (third-person singular simple present gores, present participle goring, simple past and past participle gored)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To cover or smear with blood.

語源 2

From 中期英語 goren, from gore (“gore”), ultimately from 古期英語 gār (“spear”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰoysós. Related to gar and gore (“a projecting point”).

動詞

gore (third-person singular simple present gores, present participle goring, simple past and past participle gored)

1. (transitive, of an animal) To pierce with a horn or tusk.

   Synonym: horn

   The bull gored the matador.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.

   Synonyms: jab, run through; see also Thesaurus:stab

3. (transitive or intransitive with at, obsolete, figurative) To needle or wound the feelings of.

派生語

語源 3

From 中期英語 gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”), from 古期英語 gāra, from Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *gaizô.

名詞

gore (plural gores)

1. A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
   • 1968, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Special Subcommittee on the Federal-Aid Highway Program, Highway Safety, Design, and Operations, Freeway Signing and Related Geometrics, page 448:

     I have a number of these, but this gentleman up in the gore just below the arrow was traveling in the fast lane of 495.

   • 2010, John L. Campbell, Human Factors Guidelines for Road Systems, page 20-5:

     With the addition of pavement marking arrows, erratic maneuvers such as lane changes through the gore and attempted lane changes decreased.

   • 2011, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets, 2011, page 10-97:

     Unfortunately, there will be situations where placement of a major obstruction in a gore is unavoidable.

2. (archaic or dialectal) A triangular strip of land left over at the end of a not-fully-rectangular field.
3. (surveying, chiefly US) A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.
4. The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, or an equivalent section of a spherical or dome-shaped object in general.
5. A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail or a skirt.
   • 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

     Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

6. An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
7. A projecting point.
8. (heraldry) A charge, delineated by two inwardly curved lines, starting respectively from the middle base corner and one of the two chief corners and meeting in the fess point.
9. A sign immediately adjacent to an exit from a roadway identifying it as an exit, optionally with the exit's identification number.

同意語

• (triangular piece of land where roads meet): neutral area (US), ghost island (UK)

動詞

gore (third-person singular simple present gores, present participle goring, simple past and past participle gored)

1. To cut into a triangular form.
2. To provide with a gore.

   to gore an apron

   • 1869 January 10, “The Dress Question”, in Daily Missouri Republican, volume XLVII, number 9, St. Louis, Mo., page [2], column 3:

     If Miss McFlimsey has neat ankles, she can wear short dresses: if she has clumsy ones she can wear a trail; if she is inclined to be (pardon the word) “scrawny,” she can indulge in expensive skirts and protuberant “panniers;” if inclined to embonpoint, she can discard these and “gore” her robes; if her neck and arms are exquisitely moulded, she can undrape their dazzling charms; if bone predominates over plumpitude, she can cover them from the gaze of flying eyes; if she has a disease of the spine, she need not sport “the Grecian bend;” if she is unfortunately healthy, she can call in the aid of that modern deformity—and so on, ad infinitum and ad nauseum.

アナグラム

• Geor., Gero, Ogre, Rego, ergo, ergo-, gero-, goer, ogre, orge, rego, roge

名詞

gore

1. dative singular of gor

別の表記

• gare, goore, gour, gower

発音

• IPA: /ˈɡɔːr(ə)/

名詞

gore (plural gores or goren)

1. A triangle-shaped plot of land; a gore.
2. A triangle-shaped piece or patch of fabric.
3. A piece of clothing (especially a loose-fitting one, such as a coat or dress)
4. (rare) A piece of armour; a mail coat.
5. (rare) A triangle-shaped piece of armor.

派生した語

• English: gore
• Scots: gair

参照

• “gōre, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 26 July 2018.

語源 2

Inherited from 古期英語 gor, from Proto-West Germanic *gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą.

別の表記

• gor, gorre

発音

• IPA: /ˈɡɔːr/

名詞

gore (uncountable)

1. Muck, filth, dirt; that which causes dirtiness
2. (figuratively) Iniquity, sinfulness.
3. (rare) A despicable individual.

派生した語

• English: gore
• Scots: goor, gure

参照

• “gōre, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 26 July 2018.

語源 3

名詞

gore

1. alternative form of gor