cluseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /kluz/

名詞

cluse (plural cluses)

1. A defile or narrow gorge, especially one that cuts transversely through the rock of an otherwise continuous ridge.
   • 1876, Elisée Reclus, The Earth and Its Inhabitants: France and Switzerland, page 150:

     [...] others are bounded by the steep walls of the cluses, these being the most picturesque; others, again, occupy the combes referred to above.

   • 1892, Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, page 402:

     Penck states that many a cluse in the Jura may have been formed by subterranean streams widening their channels until the covering broke down and their subterranean valleys became exposed […]

   • 1953, O. D. von Engeln, Geomorphology: Systematic and Regional, page 324:

     […] narrow cluses still exist. The distinctive nature of the geomorphic forms of the Jura is indicated by the fact that each such item is identified locally by a particular term.

   • 2024, Kholoud Kahime, Mohamed El Yamani, Stéphane Pouffary, Climate Change Effects and Sustainability Needs, page 83:

     […] cut by the wadis of the Atlas which gave birth to very steep cluses (Lechhab 1991).

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *klūsā.

発音

• IPA: /ˈkluː.se/, [ˈkluː.ze]

名詞

clūse f

1. bar, bolt
2. enclosure
3. a narrow pass or passageway
4. cell; prison
5. dam

語形変化

派生語

• mynsterclūse

関連する語

• beclȳsan
• clȳsan
• forclȳsan

派生した語

• Middle English: cluse, clouse, clowse