Chiselとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɪzəl/
• 韻: -ɪzəl

語源 1

From 中期英語 chisel, chesel, from Old Northern French chisel, cisel, from cisoir (with a change in suffix), from Late Latin cīsōrium (“cutting tool”), from Latin caedō (“cut”). Doublet of scissors.

名詞

chisel (plural chisels)

1. A cutting tool used to remove parts of stone, wood or metal by pushing or pounding the back when the sharp edge is against the material. It consists of a slim, oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end and sometimes a handle at the other end; there are hand tool versions (the original type) and versions as bits for power tools.
2. A part of any of various tools or devices that has an analogous purpose, cutting raw material or a workpiece during the process that the tool or device performs.
   1. A part of some ploughs, next to the ploughshare, that helps cut into the soil and deal with obstructions such as rocks, roots, and stems.

      Holonyms: plough, plow < implement

      Comeronyms: ploughshare, plowshare, moldboard, mouldboard, coulter, colter

派生語

参考

• burin
• gouge
• graver

動詞

chisel (third-person singular simple present chisels, present participle (US) chiseling or (UK) chiselling, simple past and past participle (US) chiseled or (UK) chiselled)

1. (intransitive) To use a chisel.

   Synonym: chip (dialectal)

2. (transitive) To work something with a chisel.

   Synonym: chip (dialectal)

   She chiselled a sculpture out of the block of wood.

3. (transitive, dated) To barge in on (something); to intrude on (something).
4. (transitive, figurative) To make small changes to (something), bit by bit, resulting in change over time.

   Synonym: chip away

   Laws that protect the environment are being chiseled away.

5. (ambitransitive, informal) To beg or pressure somebody into giving up (something); to haggle excessively; to cheat; to obtain something from (someone) by cheating.

   He's managed to chisel a couple dollars from somewhere.

   She can always chisel whatever she needs from her father.

   She's always either chiseling or groveling, it seems.

使用する際の注意点

chiselling and chiselled are more common in the UK while chiseling and chiseled are more common in the US.

派生語

• chiseler, chiseller
• chisel in, chisel out, chisel up
• rechisel

語源 2

From 中期英語 chisel, chesil, from 古期英語 ċeosol, ċeosel, ċysel, ċisel, ċisil (“gravel, sand”), from Proto-West Germanic *kesul (“small stone, pebble”). See also chessom.

別の表記

• chesil
• chissel, chessil (dialectal)

名詞

chisel (usually uncountable, plural chisels)

1. Gravel.
2. (usually in the plural) Coarse flour; bran; the coarser part of bran or flour.

関連する語

• chessom

Further reading

• “chisel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “chisel”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “chisel”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• lechis, sichel, chesil, chiels, Chiles, Schiel, elchis, liches, chiles, Schlei

語源

From Anglo-Norman chisel.

発音

• IPA: /t͡ʃiˈzɛːl/, /ˈt͡ʃizɛl/, /ˈt͡ʃeːzɛl/

名詞

chisel (plural chisels)

1. Any of several cutting tools used by stone masons.

派生した語

• English: chisel
• Yola: chisool

参照

• “chisē̆l, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.