copterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Clipping of helicopter; see also -copter § Etymology.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈkɒptə/
• (米国発音) enPR: käpʹtər, IPA: /ˈkɑptɚ/

名詞

copter (plural copters)

1. (informal) A helicopter.
   • 2005, Sin City (the film),

     Shellie shouts something I can't quite make out over the racket of a passing police copter.

同意語

• heli

派生語

関連する語

• -copter (and derivatives therefrom)
• heli- (and derivatives therefrom)

動詞

copter (third-person singular simple present copters, present participle coptering, simple past and past participle coptered)

1. (informal, transitive) To helicopter: to transport by helicopter.
2. (informal, intransitive) To helicopter: to travel by helicopter.
3. (informal, intransitive) To move like a helicopter.
   • 2015 July 24, Tom Sleigh, “‘Boomerang’”, in New York Times‎:

     The sidelong whiplash of his arm sent the boomerang soaring, pushing the sky to the horizon until the blade just hung there, a black slash on the sun so far away it seemed not to move at all before it came whirling back larger and larger: would it hit him, would he die — and you ducked down, terrified, clinging to his thigh, its deathspin slowing as it coptered softly down and he snatched it from the air.

アナグラム

• ceptor

接尾辞

-copter

1. referring to a vehicle that works with one or more vertical rotors similar to that of a helicopter

派生語

関連する語

• copter
• heli
• heli- (and derivatives therefrom)