Noseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 nose, from 古期英語 nosu, from Proto-West Germanic *nosu, variant of *nasō, old dual from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s- ~ *nh₂es- (“nose, nostril”).

See also Saterland Frisian Noose, West Frisian noas, Dutch neus, Swedish nos, Norwegian nos (“snout”), Low German Nääs, German Nase, Swedish näsa, Norwegian nese, Danish næse (“nose”); also Latin nāris (“nostril”), nāsus (“nose”), Lithuanian nósis, Russian нос (nos), Sanskrit नासा (nā́sā, “nostrils”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: nōz, IPA: [nəʊ̯z]
• (Standard Southern British) enPR: nōz, IPA: [nəwz]
• (MLE) enPR: nōz, IPA: [noːz]
• (Ireland) enPR: nōz, IPA: [noʊ̯z], [nəʊ̯z]
• (General American) enPR: nōz, IPA: [noʊ̯z]
• 異形同音異義語: knows, noes, nos
• 韻: -əʊz

名詞

nose (plural noses)

1. A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.

   She had a small nose between two sparkling blue eyes.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].

2. A snout, the nose of an animal.
3. The tip of an object.

   the nose of a tea-kettle, a bellows, or a fighter plane

   • 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:

     We submerged very slowly and without headway more than sufficient to keep her nose in the right direction, and as we went down, I saw outlined ahead of us the black opening in the great cliff.

   • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 1:

     Her crew knew that deep in her heart beat engines fit and able to push her blunt old nose ahead at a sweet fourteen knots, come Hell or high water.

4. The bulge on the side of a piece of a jigsaw puzzle, that fits into the hole of its adjacent piece.
5. (horse racing) The length of a horse’s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish of a race, or any very close race.

   Red Rum only won by a nose.

6. (perfumery) A perfumer.
   • 2014 March 4, Nicole Vulser, “Perfume manufacturers must cope with the scarcity of precious supplies”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Jacques Polge, Chanel's top “nose” since 1978, made the decision when developers started trying to buy up land around Grasse, where the Muls cultivate three hectares of the precious plant.

7. The sense of smell.
   • c. 1700, Jeremy Collier, Of Envy:

     We are not offended with […] a dog for a better nose than his master.

8. (idiomatic) Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.
9. The skill in recognising bouquet.

   It is essential that a winetaster develops a good nose.

10. (by extension) Skill at finding information.

    A successful reporter has a nose for news.

11. (idiomatic, also followed by around or about) The action of nosing, in the sense to snoop

    They had a nose around the abandoned property.

12. (architecture) A downward projection from a cornice.

    Synonym: drip

13. (slang) An informer.

    Synonym: nark

    • 1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, page 60:

      […] M was a Magsman, frequenting Pall-Mall; / N was a Nose that turned chirp on his pal; […]

同意語

• (the bulge on the side of a piece of a jigsaw puzzle): tab
• See also Thesaurus:nose

派生語

派生した語

• Sranan Tongo: noso
  • Aukan: nosu
  • Saramaccan: núsu

参考

• rhino-

動詞

nose (third-person singular simple present noses, present participle nosing, simple past and past participle nosed)

1. (intransitive) To move cautiously by advancing its front end.

   The ship nosed through the minefield.

   • 2025 November 12, Tony Streeter, “All around the world”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 42:

     Promontory's "last spike" ceremony was so significant to the USA's history that it is still regularly re-enacted today, using replica locomotives that nose up to each other just as the originals did.

2. (intransitive, idiomatic, also followed by around or about, in which case, ambitransitive) To snoop.

   She was nosing around other people’s business.

3. (transitive) To detect by smell or as if by smell.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 273:

     […] if you finde him not this moneth, you ſhall noſe him as you go vp the ſtaires into the Lobby.

   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 18:

     Dogs hurried out to nose Edmund[.]

   • 2002 October 20, Bob Morris, “Connoisseurship Runneth Over”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Real connoisseurs know that to nose and taste properly you have to add still water to your tulip-shaped glass so that the alcohol doesn't overwhelm you.

4. (transitive) To push with one's nose; to nuzzle.
   • 1868, Alfred Tennyson, “Lucretius”, in The Holy Grail and Other Poems, London: Strahan and Co., […], published 1870, →OCLC, page 211:

     [L]ambs are glad / Nosing the mother's udder, and the bird / Makes his heart voice among the blaze of flowers: […]

5. (transitive) To defeat (as in a race or other contest) by a narrow margin; sometimes with out.
6. (transitive) To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang.

   to nose a prayer

   • c. 1635, William Cartwright, The Ordinary:

     It makes far better musick when you nose Sternold's, or Wisdom's meeter.

7. (transitive) To furnish with a nose.

   to nose a stair tread

8. (transitive) To confront; be closely face to face or opposite to.
9. (intransitive, aviation) To dive down in a steep angle; to nosedive
10. (intransitive, aviation, nautical) To travel with the nose of the plane/ship aimed in a particular direction.

    The plane is nosing up!

    We have to get it nosing down.

派生語

• brown-nose
• nosey
• nose about
• nose around
• nose out
• nose over

参照

• “nose”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• ENSO, Enos, NEOs, Neso, SONE, Sone, eons, neos, noes, one's, ones, sone

名詞

nose

1. inflection of nosu:
   1. accusative/genitive/dative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

別の表記

• neose, noose, nosse, nos, nosu

発音

• IPA: /ˈnɔːz(ə)/, /ˈnɔs(ə)/

名詞

nose (plural noses or nosen)

1. nose (protrusion of the human face)
   • a. 1394, Geoffrey Chaucer, “General Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales‎, lines 151–152:

     Ful semyly hir wympul pynched was / Hir nose tretys, hir eyen greye as glas […]

     Her wimple was folded in quite a seemly way / Her nose [was] slender; her eyes [were] grey like glass […]

2. beak, nose-shaped protrusion

派生した語

• English: nose
• Scots: nos, nose, nois

参照

• “nōse, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

Probably from Old French nous, nos, nominative singular of nou, no (“knot”).

発音

• IPA: /noːs/

名詞

nose (plural noses)

1. (rare, Late Middle English) noose

派生した語

• English: noose

参照

• “nōse, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.