to/onとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Abbreviation of cartoon.

別の表記

• 'toon

名詞

toon (plural toons)

1. (informal) A cartoon, especially an animated television show.
   • 2005, Sara Bell, The Magic in Your Touch, →ISBN, page 123:

     Did you know Nash had a complete break with reality, that he was loonier than a toon for almost four months?

2. (informal, video games) A player's avatar or visible character in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
   • 2010, Ben Kei Daniel, Handbook of Research on Methods and Techniques for Studying Virtual Communities, →ISBN:

     Proxemics are very important, however, as the positioning of an agent's toon in anon-combat grouping or in the environment can show place within a social group.

3. (informal) An animated cartoon character.
   • 2025 June 25, Wikipedia contributors, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”, in English Wikipedia‎, Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1297297649:

     In 1947 Los Angeles, animated cartoon characters, or "toons", co-exist with humans, often employing their skills to entertain as film stars.

派生語

• toon force
• toon shading, toon-shaded

語源 2

Borrowed from Hindi तून (tūn), from Sanskrit तुणि (tuṇi, “Cedrela toona”).

名詞

toon (countable and uncountable, plural toons)

1. A southeast Asian and Australian tree (Toona ciliata or Toona australis) of the mahogany family with fragrant dark red wood and flowers that yield a dye.
   • 1973, Gerald A. Walters, Herbert L. Wick, Coppicing to convert cull Australian toon, tropical ash to acceptable trees:

     Each plot held 10 cull trees so that 60 Australian toon and 40 tropical ash trees were treated.

2. The wood of this tree.
   • 1972, Roger G. Skolmen, Paintability of four woods in Hawaii, page 1:

     After 7 years, all paint combinations except the self-primed latex are showing some failure on all species of wood except Australian toon.

同意語

• (tree): Australian red cedar, tone, toona
• (wood): toonwood

語源 3

Dialectal variant of town.

発音

• (Northumbria) IPA: [tuːn]

名詞

toon (plural toons)

1. (Scotland, Northumbria) A town.
   • 1865, George MacDonald, Alec Forbes of Howglen - Volume 2, page 244:

     Whan I was a callan, I took the play to mysel' for a week, or maybe twa, and gaed wi' a frien' i' the same trade's mysel', to see what was to be seen alang a screed o' the seacoast, frae toon to toon.

   • 1881, B.C., “The Chestnut Tree”, in The Border Counties' Magazine - Volumes 1-2, number 201:

     Sic changes owre oor toon hae passed Since Mungo placed thee there — A wee bit slender fragile stem, That needed watchfu' care.

   • 2011, Wulf Kurtoglu, Caroline Macafee, Braken Fences, →ISBN, page 43:

     It tane Bill three month fae the time he pairtit wi Beatrice tae get tae the toon o Shanzi. He stuid on a crest as the sin rase, an saw the fortress toon on the neist ridge, a silhouette lichtenin gradually intae ugly breezeblock buildins.

参考

• Toon

語源 4

名詞

toon (plural toons)

1. Eye dialect spelling of tune.
   • 1872, David Ross Locke, The Struggles (social, Financial and Political) of Petroleum V. Nasby, page 556:

     But why dress me in bloo? Why not in gray, ef I play Confedrit toons?

   • 1876, Eneas Sweetland Dallas -, Once a Week, page 45:

     Hark at the way them wires plays toons, as if all the imps of wickedness, and—never mind where—was fiddling dismal toons on purpose to drive a man out of his wits, or to scare him so that he couldn't do his work.

   • 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 39:

     “But toon up, and a song all round.”

   • 2013, Joseph Connolly, S.O.S., →ISBN:

     Why suddenly you're so eager to know the toon, now, Dwight? Before you was saying you didn't even hear no toon.

派生語

• looney toon, loony toon

参照

• List of English words of Sanskrit origin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Toon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “toon”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.

アナグラム

• Noto, noot, noto-, on to, onto, onto-, oont, tono-