Barnacleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈbɑːnəkl̩/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈbɑɹnəkl̩/
• ハイフネーション: bar‧na‧cle

名詞

barnacle (plural barnacles)

1. A marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia that attaches itself to submerged surfaces such as tidal rocks or the bottoms of ships.

   Hypernyms: arthropod, crustacean

2. The barnacle goose.
3. (engineering, slang) In electrical engineering, a change made to a product on the manufacturing floor that was not part of the original product design.
4. (electronics, slang) On printed circuit boards, a change such as soldering a wire in order to connect two points, or addition such as an added resistor or capacitor, subassembly or daughterboard.
5. (software engineering, slang) A deprecated or obsolete file, image or other artifact that remains with a project even though it is no longer needed.

   Synonym: (collectively) cruft

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

6. (obsolete, in the plural) An instrument like a pair of pincers, to fix on the nose of a vicious horse while shoeing so as to make it more tractable.

   Synonym: twitch

7. (archaic, British, slang, in the plural) A pair of spectacles.
8. (slang, obsolete) A good job, or snack easily obtained.
9. (slang) A worldly sailor.

   Synonym: shellback

派生語

動詞

barnacle (third-person singular simple present barnacles, present participle barnacling, simple past and past participle barnacled)

1. To connect with or attach.
   • 2009, Liza Dalby, Hidden Buddhas: A Novel of Karma and Chaos, Stone Bridge Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 178:

     Tokuda went over everything his grandfather had taught him, including the commentary that had barnacled on to the core knowledge.

   • 2020, “YTK, Lunar Cartographer”, in Timmy's Unbuttoned Gen X Meditations, performed by Good Fuck:

     To dream that some things just barnacle to your heart, and it might take years, or it might always just be there.

2. To press close against something.
   • 2002, Douglas Coupland, All Families Are Psychotic, Vintage Canada, published 2002, →ISBN, page 16:

     He turned a corner to where he supposed the cupboard might be, to find Howie and Alanna barnacled together in an embrace.

参考

• limpet

Further reading

• “barnacle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811), “Barnacle”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: […] C. Chappell, […], →OCLC.
• barnacle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• barnacle (slang) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• balancer