Randとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 rand, from 古期英語 rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, shore”), from Proto-West Germanic *rand, from Proto-Germanic *randaz, *randō (“edge, rim, crust”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to rest, prop or support oneself”). Cognate with Dutch rand (“edge, border, outskirts, rim”), German Rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, outskirts”), Swedish rand (“rand, stripe, edge, verge”). Related to rind.

名詞

rand (plural rands)

1. The border of an area of land, now especially marshland.

   Coordinate term: lagg

   at the wald's rand; the rand of the marsh

   • 1963, Field Studies [Council of Great Britain], volume 1, page 132:

     Outside the rand or steep edge of this dome the bog is permanently ringed around by a zone liable to base-rich flooding, and this zone, the lagg, carries a persistent fen or carr vegetation.

   • 1984, Herman W. Gabriel, Glossary of Landscape & Vegetation Ecology for Alaska, page 64, entry "lagg":

     Lagg (1) Marginal zone outside the rand containing fen vegetation and representing the transition between raised bog peat and mineral soils.

   • 2013, Peter D. Moore, European Mires, page 288:

     […] the rands, especially near the Teifi river, are very steep.

2. (obsolete, now dialect) A strip of meat; a long fleshy piece of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.
   • 1621 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Wild-Goose Chase; a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     They came with chopping-knives / To cut me into rands and sirloins

3. (UK, dialect, rare) A border, edge or rim; a strip, as of cloth.
   • 1867, Anderson, Rhymes, page 44:

     They quarrelled an' fought 'mang the clippin's an' rands, / The tailor insistin' the colour was blue.

4. A strip of leather used to fit the heels of a shoe.

   (Can we add an example for this sense? )

5. (basket-making) A single rod woven in and out of the stakes.

   (Can we add an example for this sense? )

参照

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

語源 2

Named after Witwatersrand; the last element is Afrikaans rand (“ridge”), from Dutch rand, from Old Saxon rand, from Germanic *randaz. Compare Etymology 1, and Rand.

The sense of currency is because of gold that was extracted from the Witwatersrand rocks.

名詞

rand (plural rands or rand)

1. A rocky slope, especially the area over a river valley; specifically, the Rand
2. The currency of South Africa, divided into 100 cents.

参考

• Wikipedia article on the rand

語源 3

See rant.

動詞

rand (third-person singular simple present rands, present participle randing, simple past and past participle randed)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To rant; to storm.
   • c. 1601 (date written), Thomas Decker [i.e., Thomas Dekker]; Iohn Webster [i.e., John Webster], North-ward Hoe. […], London: […] G[eorge] Eld, published 1607, →OCLC, Act IV, signatures F, verso – F2, recto:

     […] I ſmelt out my noble ſtincker Greenſheild in his Chamber, and as tho my heart ſtringes had bin crackt, I vvept, & thumpd, and thumpd, and rau'd and randed, and raild, and told him hovv my vvife vvas novv grovvne as common as baibery, and that ſhee had hierd her Taylor to ride vvith her to VVare, to meete a Gentleman of the Court.

語源 4

Shortened from random.

名詞

rand (plural rands)

1. (programming) A random number.

アナグラム

• DNAR, DNRA, Nard, andr-, darn, nard, rDNA, rdna

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *rand, *randu, from Proto-Germanic *randaz, *randō, from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to come to rest, prop or support oneself”). Cognate with Old Norse rǫnd (“edge, rim; (poetic) shield”).

発音

• IPA: /rɑnd/

名詞

rand m

1. outer part of something: edge, brink, rim, margin
2. (poetic) shield or the boss of a shield

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

派生語

• randbēag

関連する語

派生した語

• Middle English: rand, rond
  • English: rand
  • Scots: rand