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語源 1

Uncertain; perhaps related to Latin cēlō (“to hide”).

別の表記

• ciel

動詞

ceil (third-person singular simple present ceils, present participle ceiling, simple past and past participle ceiled)

1. (transitive) To line or finish (a surface, such as a wall), with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or similar.
   • 1903 June 1, W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois, “Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece”, in The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches, 2nd edition, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., →OCLC, page 139:

     It is nearly always old and bare, built of rough boards, and neither plastered nor ceiled.

派生語

• ceiler
• ceiling

語源 2

Abbrevation of ceiling, influenced by French ciel

名詞

ceil (plural ceils)

1. (poetic) A ceiling.
   • 1890, Ambrose E. Pratt, Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of Sandwich and Bourne, at Sandwich, Massachusetts, September 3, 1889, page 89:

     […] The mossy sward / Beneath their feet, their carpet was, / An azure ceil, the sky above; […]

2. (mathematics) Abbreviation of ceiling.

派生語

• ceil function

動詞

ceil (third-person singular simple present ceils, present participle ceiling, simple past and past participle ceiled)

1. (mathematics) To set a higher bound.

アナグラム

• -icle, Celi, ICLE, ILEC, Icel., ciel, lice