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• rosil, rozin (廃れた用法)

語源

From Old French raisine, rousine, variants of résine. See resin.

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɒz.ən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɑz.ən/
• (dialectal) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɑz.əm/, /ˈɹɔz.əm/^[1][2]

名詞

rosin (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 rosins)

1. (organic chemistry) A solid form of resin, obtained from liquid resin by vaporizing its volatile components.
   • 1998, Neville H. Fletcher, Thomas Rossing, The Physics of Musical Instruments, 2nd edition, Springer Science & Business, →ISBN, page 284:

     The action of the bow therefore depends almost entirely upon the application of rosin and upon its frictional properties. Violin rosin is a natural gum obtained from conifers such as larch that produce turpentine.

2. Resin.
   • 1834, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], The Last Days of Pompeii. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Richard Bentley, […]; successor to Henry Colburn, →OCLC:

     ‘It is delicate,’ said Pansa, ‘but there is perhaps the least particle too much of rosin in its flavor.’

   • 1883, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 16, in Life on the Mississippi, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, →OCLC:

     From three o'clock onward they would be burning rosin and pitch pine (the sign of preparation), and so one had the picturesque spectacle of a rank, some two or three miles long, of tall, ascending columns of coal-black smoke; […]

   • 1894 [1892], Arthur Conan Doyle, “Lot No. 249”, in Round the Red Lamp […] :

     A thick, fat smoke oozed out from the fire, and a heavy smell of burned rosin and singed hair filled the air.

同意語

• colophony
• Greek pitch

派生語

• rosin oil
• rosin paper

動詞

rosin (三人称単数 現在形 rosins, 現在分詞 rosining, 過去形および過去分詞形 rosined)

1. (transitive) To apply rosin to (something); to rub or cover with rosin.

   We waited expectantly as the guest violinist rosined his bow in preparation for playing.

参照

アナグラム

• Irons, Orins, RINOs, Rison, Sinor, inros, irons, noirs, noris, ornis, roins, siron