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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɒbəlɪsk/
• (Standard Southern British, Scotland, General Australian) IPA: /ˈɔbəlɪsk/
• (米国発音, without the cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈɑbəlɪsk/, /ˈɔbəlɪsk/
• (米国発音, cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈɑbəlɪsk/

名詞

obelisk (plural obelisks)

1. (architecture) A tall, square, tapered, stone monolith topped with a pyramidal point, frequently used as a monument. [from mid 16th c.]
   • 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 200:

     "The clay envelope is Sumerian. It is from the third millennium B.C. It was dug up from the city of Eridu is southern Iraq. The black stele or obelisk is the Code of Hammurabi, which dates from about 1750 B.C.

   • 2012 January, Henry Petroski, “The Washington Monument”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 1, page 16:

     The Washington Monument is often described as an obelisk, and sometimes even as a "true obelisk," even though it is not. A true obelisk is a monolith, a pylon formed out of a single piece of stone.

2. (typography) Synonym of obelus.
   1. (historical) A symbol resembling a horizontal line (–), sometimes together with one or two dots (for example, ⨪ or ÷), which was used in ancient manuscripts and texts to mark a word or passage as doubtful or spurious, or redundant.
   2. A dagger symbol (†), which is used in printed matter as a reference mark to refer the reader to a footnote, marginal note, etc.; beside a person's name to indicate that the person is deceased; or beside a date to indicate that it is a person's death date.
3. (virology) An RNA structure similar to a viroid, with a rod-like secondary structure, which comprises its own phylogenetic group.

使用する際の注意点

Regarding sense 2, obelus was used in Middle English, but thereafter was displaced by obelisk until the 19th century when both words began to be used with equal regularity.

別の表記

• obelisc

同意語

• (architecture): aguilla, pylon, stela

上位語

• (architecture): needle

Meronyms

• (architecture): pyramidion

派生語

参考

• menhir
• pillar

動詞

obelisk (third-person singular simple present obelisks, present participle obelisking, simple past and past participle obelisked)

1. (entomology, of a dragonfly) To adopt the obelisk posture; to point the tip of the abdomen towards the sun.
   • 2004, Cynthia Berger, Dragonflies‎:

     Dragonflies that spend the day in full sun may obelisk to minimize the sunlight striking the body. An obelisking dragonfly looks like it's doing a headstand […]

参照

• obelisk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• obelisk (biology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• obelisk posture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• obelisk (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia