dimple
英 ['dɪmp(ə)l]
美 ['dɪmpəl]
- vt.さざ波を立てる；くぼみを作る
- n. えくぼ；波紋；浅いくぼみ
- vi. えくぼを作る；波紋を作る
語源
dimple ディンプル語源 dip、ディップと同じ。dimple、えくぼに由来する。
英語の語源
- dimple
- dimple: [13] Dimple originally meant ‘pothole’, and was not applied to an ‘indentation in the flesh’ until the 14th century. There is no surviving record of the word in Old English, but it probably existed, as *dympel; Old High German had the cognate tumphilo, ancestor of modern German tümpel ‘pool, puddle’. Both go back to a Germanic *dump-, which may be a nasalized version of *d(e)up-, source of English deep and dip.
=> deep, dip - dimple (n.)
- c. 1400, perhaps existing in Old English as a word meaning "pothole," perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dumpilaz, which has yielded words in other languages meaning "small pit, little pool" (such as German Tümpel "pool," Middle Low German dümpelen, Dutch dompelen "to plunge"). Related: Dimples.
- dimple (v.)
- 1570s (implied in dimpled), from dimple (n.).
例文
- 1. She had a dimple which appeared when she smiled.
- 彼女は笑うとえくぼが出てくる。
- 2.But she smiled instead and the dimple crept into her cheek.
- しかし彼女は満面の笑みを浮かべ、可憐な顔をしていた。
- 3.That 's a dimple in her cheek.
- 彼女の顔には笑みが浮かんでいる。
ケンブリッジ少年英会話入門より
- 4.The composite displays the fracture features of the dimple and intergranular fracture.
- 複合材料の破断形態は強靭窩加沿晶破断である。
- 5.SINK：Surface discontinuity，depression or dimple caused by non-uniform material shrinkage.
- 溝：材料収縮の不一致による表面の中断、陥没、凹み..