WEIRとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• wear (dated)
• wier (archaic)
• wyer (obsolete)

語源

From 中期英語 were, from 古期英語 wer, from werian (“to dam up”), from Proto-West Germanic *warjan, from Proto-Germanic *warjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cover”); Cognate with Old Norse ver (“station for fishing”), Sanskrit वृणोति (vṛṇóti). Related to warranty.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA: /wɪə̯/
• (General American) IPA: /wɪɹ/
• (Scotland) IPA: /wiːɹ/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /wiə/
• (East Anglia, cheer–chair merger) IPA: /wɛː/
• 韻: -ɪə(ɹ)
• 異形同音異義語: Wear, we're; ware, wear (both cheer–chair merger)

名詞

weir (plural weirs)

1. An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream.
   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 214, photo caption:

     Though Hambleden's parish register records the death, in 1753, of a bargeman 'Kill'd by accident, shooting ye lock', the turbulent waters of Mill End weir on the River Thames, about a mile from the village, still attract canoeists.

   • 1997, J. H. L'Abée-Lund, J. E. Brittain, “Weir construction as environmental mitigation in Norwegian hydropower schemes”, in Hydropower '97, pages 51–54:

     The weir must not represent a physical barrier to fish migration, both locally and throughout the whole river system. If necessary, a fishway is included in the weir.

   • 2010, Sathesh Gopi, Basic Civil Engineering, page 303:

     A walkway over the weir is likely to be useful for the removal of floating debris trapped by the weir, or for working staunches and sluices on it as the rate of flow changes.

2. A fence placed across a river to catch fish.
   • 1879, Annual Report of the Inspectors of Salmon Fisheries, page 65:

     The Taff is naturally a good salmon river, the Ely a sea trout river, but what with weirs and pollusions the fish have been pretty well exterminated.

   • 1887, W. A. Wilcox, “58-New England Fisheries in May, 1886”, in Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, volume VI, published 1886, page 191:

     The weir catch of mackerel at Monomoy and along Cape Cod has been a failure.

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.

3. (obsolete) Seaweed.

等位語

• (adjustable dam): dam, sluice

派生語

Further reading

• weir on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Wire, wier, wire