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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /tɹɔːl/
• (米国発音) IPA: /tɹɔl/, /tɹɑl/
• 韻: -ɔːl
• Homophone: troll (some dialects)

名詞

trawl (plural trawls)

1. A net or dragnet used for trawling. [from the 16th c.]
2. A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline.
3. An exhaustive search.

   I embarked on a trawl through my uncle's papers in search of his missing will.

派生語

派生した語

• → Portuguese: trol
• → Russian: трал (tral)

動詞

trawl (third-person singular simple present trawls, present participle trawling, simple past and past participle trawled)

1. (ambitransitive) To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl.

   The fisherman went out to trawl the deep sea for shrimp.

2. (intransitive) To fish from a slow-moving boat.

   They used a large net to trawl for fish along the coast.

3. (intransitive) To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area.

   Synonyms: rummage, forage, rifle

   We need to trawl through the data to find meaningful patterns.

関連する語

• troll

派生した語

• → Faroese: trol