corpsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

singular

• (horse–hoarse merger)
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kô, IPA: /kɔː/
  • (General American) enPR: kôr, IPA: /kɔɹ/, [kʰo̞ɹ]

  • 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)
  • 異形同音異義語: core, cor; caw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
• (without the horse–hoarse merger)
  • (rhotic) enPR: kōr, IPA: /ko(ː)ɹ/
  • (non-rhotic) IPA: /koə/

plural

• (horse–hoarse merger)
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôz, IPA: /kɔːz/
  • (General American) enPR: kôrz, IPA: /koɹz/, [kʰo̞ɹz]
  • 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)z
  • 異形同音異義語: cores; cause, caws (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
• (without the horse–hoarse merger)
  • (rhotic) enPR: kōrz, IPA: /ko(ː)ɹz/
  • (non-rhotic) IPA: /koəz/

名詞

corps (plural corps)

1. (military) A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.
2. An organized group of people united by a common purpose.

   diplomatic corps

   White House press corps

派生語

関連する語

語源 2

名詞

corps (plural corps)

1. A corps de ballet.
   • 1981 December 12, David Foushee, “Pushing the Edges”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 6:

     The performers were all creditable dancers as well as comedians […] even the largest of them cavorted about en pointe with wonderful ease, and the corps work was extremely precise in its inaccuracies.

語源 3

Clipping.

名詞

corps

1. plural of corp

語源 4

名詞

corps (plural corpses)

1. Obsolete spelling of corpse.
   • 1658, Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in Norfolk […], London: […] Hen. Brome […], page 16:

     How to keep the corps ſeven dayes from corruption by anointing and waſhing, without exenteration, were an hazardable peece of art, in our choiſeſt practiſe.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 597–601:

     To mee, who with eternal Famin pine, / Alike is Hell, or Paradiſe, or Heaven, / There beſt, where moſt with ravin I may meet; / Which here, though plenteous, all too little ſeems / To ſtuff this Maw, this vaſt unhide-bound Corps.

   • 1788, [Vicesimus Knox], Winter Evenings: or, Lucubrations on Life and Letters, volume II, Dublin: […] Messrs. Chamberlaine, Moncrieffe, White, […], page 70:

     Did I poſſeſs the power of reſuſcitation, I would reanimate thy lifeleſs corps, and cheriſh thee in the warmeſt corner of thy favourite dwelling-place.

   • 1818, John Palmer, Journal of Travels in the United States of North America, and in Lower Canada, Performed in the Year 1817: […], London: […] Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, […], page 92:

     The women looked like dead bodies; and never did I see such a sepulchral appearance as their dress and colourless faces exhibited, they were all dressed alike in drab gowns, white neck kerchiefs, and a cap fitting close over their ears, and fastened under the chin, the same sort as are placed on a corps.

アナグラム

• S corp., crops, procs, scorp, sproc