gnat

• n. [昆虫]小さな昆虫; 小さな厄介者
• n.[蚋]人名；（英）nat；（露）Gnat.

語源はgnaw, biteと同じ。

gnat (n.)

Old English gn?t "gnat, midge, small flying insect," earlier gneat, from Proto-Germanic *gnattaz (cognates: Low German gnatte, German Gnitze); perhaps literally "biting insect" and related to gnaw.

The gnatte is a litil fflye, and hatte culex he souket blood and hat in his mout a pipe, as hit were a pricke. And is a-countid a-mong volatiles and greuet slepinge men wit noyse & wit bytinge and waket hem of here reste. [John of Trevisa, translation of Bartholomew de Glanville's "De proprietatibus rerum," 1398]

Gnat-catcher, insectivorous bird of the U.S. woodlands, is from 1823.

1. "Tang" is " Gnat " spelt backwards.

Gnat を逆さまに書くとTangになります。

2.Strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.

小さなことに拘り、大きなことに混乱している。

3.A novel human GCN 5-related acetyltransferase，MAK 3 was found by bioinformatics analysis of the GNAT family.アセチル化酵素 GNAT ファミリーを研究分析する過程で、1人の GNAT ファミリーの新しいメンバーMAK 3.

4.He 's always straining at a gnat .

彼はいつも小さなことにこだわる。

5.You need not sing to me like a gnat to profound that question.

蚊のように口ずさむ必要はありません。