woolとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /wʊl/
• (General American) enPR: wo͝ol, IPA: /wʊl/, [wʊ̠ɫ], [wəl], [wul]
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA: /wʉl/
• 韻: -ʊl

名詞

wool (usually uncountable, plural wools)

1. The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
   • 2006, Nigel Guy Wilson, Ancient Greece, page 692:

     The sheep were caught and plucked, because shears had not yet been invented to cut the wool from the sheep's back.

2. A cloth or yarn made from such hair.
   • 2009 January 12, Mireya Navarro, “It May Market Organic Alternatives, but Is Your Cleaner Really Greener?”, in New York Times:

     Spielvogel said wet cleaning also has limitations; while it is fine for cottons and fabrics worn in warm climates, he said, it can damage heavy wools or structured clothes like suit jackets.

3. Anything with a fibrous texture like that of sheep's wool.

   Hyponyms: cotton wool; wood wool; mineral wool, rockwool, glass wool; wire wool, aluminum wool, brass wool, steel wool

   • 1975, Anthony Julian Huxley, Plant and Planet, page 223:

     The groundsels have leaves covered in wool for insulation […]

4. A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.
5. (obsolete) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

     wool of bat and tongue of dog

6. (British, New Zealand) Yarn, including that made from synthetic fibers.
7. (Liverpool, derogatory) A woolly back; a resident of a satellite town outside Liverpool, such as St Helens or Warrington. See also Yonner.
8. (slang) A marijuana cigarette or cigar laced with crack cocaine.

   Synonyms: wooler, woolie

   • 1991 March 29, “Slow Down” (0:25 from the start), in One for All‎, performed by Brand Nubian:

     The object of your affection is the treetop connection / Where basically you love to smoke your wools

   • 2003 June 24, “Sabotage” (0:40 from the start), in The Ownerz‎, performed by Gang Starr:

     He rocked Caesar's chains, he pushed Caesar's Range / Smokin' mad wools all day, with Caesar's change

   • 2012, Chris Berdik, Mind Over Mind: The Surprising Power of Expectations, New York, N.Y.: Current, →ISBN, page 149:

     Lopez said the shooter's name was Lou, known on the street as Wool Lou, because he sold "wools," which were cigarettes rolled up with crack cocaine.

下位語

• (cloth or yarn): felt, tweed, worsted

等位語

• (hair of sheep): goathair, horsehair, qiviut

派生語

派生した語

• → Japanese: ウール (ūru)

参照

• “wool”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “wool”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “wool”, in The Right Rhymes, launched 2013.

Further reading

• wool on Wikipedia.Wikipedia