noose: [15] The notion underlying the word noose is of a ‘knot’, rather than of a ‘loop of rope made with a knot’. The word comes from nos or nous, the Old French descendant of Latin nodus ‘knot’. This was the source of English node [16], of course, and of the diminutive form nodule [16], but it has also made a couple of less obvious contributions to English: dénouement [18], which comes via a French word denoting literally the ‘untying of a knot’, and newel [14] ‘staircase post’, which was borrowed from Old French nouel ‘knob’, a descendant of the medieval Latin diminutive nōdellus. => dénouement, newel, node, nodule
noose (n.)
mid-15c., perhaps from Old French nos or cognate Old Proven?al nous "knot," from Latin nodus "knot" (see net (n.)). Rare before c. 1600.
例文
1. The rebels are tightening the noose around the capital.
反乱分子が首都包囲を引き締めている。
2.His debts were a noose around his neck.
債務は、彼の首にかけられた投げ縄のようなものだ。
3.Put one 's head in a noose .
自己結線
4.They tied a noose round her neck.
彼らは彼女の首に生きたボタンを結んだ。
5.He cut the rope then and went astern to noose the tail.