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発音

• IPA: /spaɪ/
• 韻: -aɪ

名詞

spy (plural spies)

1. A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage).

   Synonyms: (obsolete) espy, intelligencer; see also Thesaurus:spy

   • 1941, Theodore Roethke, “Feud”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC, page 4:

     The dead leap at the throat, destroy
     The meaning of the day; dark forms
     Have scaled your walls, and spies betray
     Old secrets to amorphous swarms.

   • 2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:

     Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

2. (American football) A defensive player assigned to cover an offensive backfield player man-to-man when they are expected to engage in a running play, but the offensive player does not run with the ball immediately.

派生語

動詞

spy (third-person singular simple present spies, present participle spying, simple past and past participle spied)

1. (intransitive) To act as a spy.

   During the Cold War, Russia and America would each spy on each other for recon.

2. (transitive) To spot; to catch sight of; to espy.

   I think I can spy that hot guy coming over here.

   • 1536 June 16 (Gregorian calendar), Hugh Latimer, “Sermon II. Master Latimer’s Discourse on the Same Day in the Afternoon [Preached to the Convocation of the Clergy, before the Parliament Began, the Sixth Day of June, the Twenty Eighth Year of the Reign of the Late King Henry VIII].”, in The Sermons of the Right Reverend Father in God, Master Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester. […], volume I, London: […] J. Scott, […], published 1758, →OCLC, page 32:

     VVherefore lift up your heads, brethren, and look about vvith your eyes, ſpy vvhat things are to be reformed in the Church of England.

     The spelling has been modernized.

   • 1720, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Young Clergyman:

     One in reading, skipped over all sentences where he spied a note of admiration.

   • 1818, John Keats, A Prophecy:

     Child, I see thee! Child, I spy thee!

   • 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 68:

     The next person they spied was a Bandicoot carrying a watermelon.

3. (intransitive) To search narrowly; to scrutinize.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], page 324:

     (As I confeſſe it is my Natures plague / To ſpy into Abuſes, and of my iealouſie / Shapes faults that are not)

4. (transitive) To explore; to see; to view; inspect and examine secretly, as a country.

派生語

関連する語

• spyglass
• spyware

派生した語

• → Japanese: スパイ (supai)
• → Korean: 스파이 (seupai)

参考

• spy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• PYs, SYP, YPs, pys