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発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ləʊd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /loʊd/
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ləʉd/
  • 韻: -əʊd
  • 異形同音異義語: load, lowed

名詞

lode (複数形 lodes)

1. (obsolete) A way or path; a road.
2. (dialectal) A watercourse.
3. (mining) A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure.
   • 1967, Henry C. Berg; Edward Huntington Cobb, Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska, page 14:

     The metals traditionally sought in the Bristol Bay region have been gold and copper, mostly in deposits near Lake Iliamna. An exception is a gold lode discovered about 1930 near Sleitat Mountain (4), where about $200 in gold was recovered from small quartz veins near the periphery of a small granitic intrusive body.

4. (by extension) A rich source of supply.
   • 2019 September 25, Gary Stix, “Two Linguists Use Their Skills to Inspect 21,739 Trump Tweets”, in Scientific American‎^[1]:

     In recent years, Jack Grieve of the department of English and linguistics at the University of Birmingham in England has embraced Twitter as a bountiful lode for looking at language-use patterns.

関連する語

• lodestar
• loadstone
• mother lode

アナグラム

• DOLE, Delo, Deol, Doel, Dole, Ledo, OLED, dole, leod, olde