英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˈlaɪfə(ɹ)/
• 韻: -aɪfə(ɹ)

名詞

lifer (plural lifers)

1. A prisoner sentenced to life in prison.
2. A prisoner sentenced to transportation for life.
   • 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:

     They know what a clever lad he is; he'll be a lifer. They'll make the Artful nothing less than a lifer.

3. A person with a singular career path, especially in the military.
   • 1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 63:

     " […] The Top's not a lifer; he's a career Marine. Lifers are a breed. A lifer is anybody who abuses authority he doesn't deserve to have. There are plenty of civilian lifers."

   • 2002, Paul Newman, Nine From The Ninth, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 17:

     LRRP planned to become “career” Army, i.e., a lifer, you kept that quiet. Basic LRRP theology said the Army sucked and that philosophy kept one from going crazy because, at the bottom, nothing about the war seemed to make sense anyway. The LRRP's considered a lifer a loser. Being a lifer implied one had no other options available. Every LRRP had his own stories about back home: about family, friends, lovers, opportunities, dreams and a future. These were mostly fantasy, but […]

   • 2005, J. M. Coutts, As the Beacon Turns, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 392:

     In the early years of EMS, the term lifer was an entitlement pinned to anyone who had worked the road for ten years or longer with no real plans of seeking a replacement trade. It was a term that was generally delivered in a respectful and lighthearted teasing manner by someone who by all definitions could have easily been described as a lifer himself—with the exception of one drawback. So far, the crews didn't know anyone who had worked in the field for ten years, much less longer […]

   • 2018, Adrian Dater, 100 Things Rockies Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die:

     He was a baseball lifer, a seamhead through and through, who just absolutely liked nothing better than sitting down and talking baseball.

4. (chiefly birdwatching) A species seen for the first time by a birder or other naturalist who is keeping a list of all the species they have seen.

   Synonym: life bird

   • 1970, D.I.M. Wallace, “The first ten years of the Rarities Committee”, in British Birds, volume 63, number 3, London, page 124:

     It is difficult to classify them precisely, but, in roughly ascending order of productivity, we now recognise the purely chance observer, the locality regulars (now recognising that ‘time in’ eventually equals ‘rarity out’), the ringers (particularly when working in groups), the occasional tally-hunter (most of us, if we are honest), the full-time observatory workers (exhibiting the highest standards of discipline) and the growing group of full-blooded rarity collectors (self-styled ‘twitchers’, covering individually up to 30,000 miles in their annual pursuit of ‘lifers’).

   • 2010, Robert Michael Pyle, Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN:

     We have concurred that it was clearly Problema byssus, the byssus skipper: a lifer for me.

   • 2013, Sue Taylor, Best 100 Birdwatching Sites in Australia:

     I saw six species of honeyeaters new to me and went home with 16 lifers and some bad sandfly bites.

派生語

参考

• (bird species): life list

アナグラム

• Filer, Friel, filer, flier, rifle

発音

• IPA: /ˈli.fer/, [ˈli.ver]

名詞

lifer f

1. liver (interior organ)

語形変化

Strong ō-stem:

派生語

• liferādl (“liver disease”)
• lifersēoc (“having a liver disease”)
• liferlæppa (“lobe of the liver”)

派生した語

• Middle English: lyvere, lyver, livere
  • English: liver
  • Scots: liver