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hair's breadth

háirs・brèadth, háir's brèadth

名詞

形容詞＝hairbreadth.

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Eゲイト英和辞典

hair's-breadth

音節háir's-brèadth
名詞

日本語WordNet(英和)

hairsbreadth

名詞

1. とても小さい距離やスペース(a very small distance or space)

「hairsbreadth」に関する類語一覧

hair's-breadth

名詞

1. とても小さい距離やスペース(a very small distance or space)

用例

they escaped by a hair's-breadth 彼らは間一髪逃げおおせた

「hair's-breadth」に関する類語一覧

斎藤和英大辞典

hair's breadth

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hair's breadth

一髪, 間一髪, 間一発

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hairsbreadth

別の表記

語源

From hair +‎ -s- +‎ breadth.

発音

(Received 発音, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛəɹzbɹɛdθ/
ハイフネーション: hairs‧breadth

名詞

hairsbreadth (複数形 hairsbreadths)

A very short distance or a very small amount (as is the width of a hair).
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The Merry VViues of VVindsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene ii], page 54, column 1:
  [...] I ſee you are obſequious in your loue, and I profeſſe requitall to a haires bredth, [...]
- 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, “The Word of a Gentleman”, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, OCLC 83401042, book the first (Poverty), page 265:
  [I]t was characteristic of this man, as it is of all men similarly marked, that whatever he did, he overdid, though it were sometimes by only a hair's-breadth [...]
- 1919, John Buchan, Mr. Standfast:
  We've missed our shot by a hairsbreadth and that 's the same as missing by miles.
- 2010 March, Neil McDonald, Quadrant, Quadrant Magazine Limited, volume LIV, number 3 (number 464 overall), page 100:
  In Avatar the spectacular rides to the rescue and hairsbreadth escapes have the whole film behind them and because of that are dramatically and emotionally satisfying.

派生語

to a hair 's breadth

アナグラム

hairbreadths

hair's breadth

出典:『Wiktionary』 (2026/01/27 19:54 UTC 版)

別の表記

hairsbreadth, hairbreadth

発音

名詞

hair's breadth (plural hairs' breadths)

(idiomatic) A very small amount or distance.

hair's-breadth escapes [narrow escapes]

We won by a hair's breadth.

He missed me by a hair's breadth when he ran past me yesterday.

They came within a hair 's breadth of contacting electrified water.
- 1856, [William] Wilkie Collins, “The Yellow Mask”, in After Dark, volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co., →OCLC, page 163:
  
  Measure Maddalena, and measure Minerva, and, from forehead to chin, you won't find a hair's breadth of difference between them.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
  
  "And then at last I see him, and behold, my chance is gone but by a hair's breadth even before I have it, for he is in the very jaws of death, whence no power of mine can draw him."

派生語

by a hair 's breadth

関連する語

to a hair

アナグラム

hairbreadths

hairsbreadthの変化形一覧

名詞の変化形：

hairsbreadths(複数形)

発音記号

/ ˈhɛərzbrɛdθ / (英国英語)
/ ˈhɛrzbrɛdθ / (カナダ英語)

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