Shinとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 schyne, from 古期英語 scinu, from Proto-West Germanic *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Cognate with West Frisian skine, Dutch scheen, German Schiene. Not related to skin.

名詞

shin (plural shins)

1. The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

   Synonym: tibia

   Soccer players have to wear protective gear so they don't injure their shins.

2. A fishplate for a railway

派生語

関連する語

• shinbone

動詞

shin (third-person singular simple present shins, present participle shinning, simple past and past participle shinned)

1. To climb up or lower oneself down a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like.

   Synonym: shinny (US)

   to shin up a mast

   • 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 33:

     "The minute the door is shut he shins down a water-pipe, hops on his motor-cycle, and is off at full speed."

2. To strike with the shin.
   • 2011 January 5, Mark Ashenden, “Wolverhampton 1 - 0 Chelsea”, in BBC‎:

     The warning signs had been there as Peter Cech had already had to palm away a stinging shot from Ronald Zubar but immediately afterwards the Blues goalkeeper could only watch in horror as defender Boswinga shinned the ball into his own net from Hunt's corner.

3. (US, slang) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
   • 1845 December 13, New York Commercial Advertiser:

     The Senator was shinning around, to get gold for the rascally bank-rags which he was obliged to take.

派生語

語源 2

別の表記

• sheen

名詞

shin (plural shins)

1. The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

参考

• Appendix:Hebrew alphabet

Further reading

• Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

参照

参考

• shin hanga (etymologically unrelated)

アナグラム

• Hins, Nish, hins, his'n, hisn, nish, sinh