groopとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• grupe, groap, grube

名詞

groop (複数形 groops)

1. (obsolete or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A trench or small ditch.
2. (obsolete or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A trench or drain; particularly, a trench or hollow behind the stalls of cows or horses for receiving their dung and urine.
   • 1816, James Cleland, Annals of Glasgow‎^[1], Digitized edition, published 2007, page 373:

     The groop is one foot six inches wide, six and one-half inches deep at one end … to carry off the urine into a reservoir under the Cowhouse, …

   • 2008, Dennis O'Driscoll, Seamus Heaney, Stepping stones:

     Cleaning the byre involved barrowing out the contents of the groop, sluicing it down and rebedding it with clean straw.

3. (obsolete or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A pen for cattle; a byre.

動詞

groop (三人称単数 現在形 groops, 現在分詞 grooping, 過去形および過去分詞形 grooped)

1. (obsolete) To make a channel or groove; to form grooves.

語源 2

Alteration of group. More at group.

名詞

groop (複数形 groops)

1. Alternative form of group
   • 1828, William Taylor, Historic Survey of German Poetry‎^[2] (Treuttel かつ Würtz, Treuttel Jun. かつ Richter), Digitized edition, published 2007, page 179:

     Revival of Fine Literature — Swiss groop of Poets ...

   • 1834, Charles Augustus Davis, Letters of J. Downing, Major‎^[3], Harper & Brothers, page 158:

     … and laid his Hickory and hat down afore him, and all our folks began to nock noses in little groops here and there;

   • 1985, Thomas Beth, Dieter Jungnickel, Hanfried Lenz, Design Theory‎^[4] (Mathematics), Digitized edition, Bibliographisches Institut, published 2010, →ISBN, page 560:

     Delete one point x and consider as new groops the point sets B\{x} where B is any block of D containing x.

   • 2004, Dept. of Combinatorics and Optimization, Ars Combinatoria, Volumes 72-73‎^[5] (Mathematics), University of Waterloo, page 90:

     A groop divisible design on v points with groop size g and block size k is called a t-GD[k,g,;v] if every subset of t distinct points that contains no two points from the same groop is contained in exactly one block.

動詞

groop (三人称単数 現在形 groops, 現在分詞 grooping, 過去形および過去分詞形 grooped)

1. Alternative form of group
   • 1810, Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson, editor, The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper‎^[6], Digitized edition, published 2006, page 485:

     I GROOPED in thy pocket pretty peate.

   • 1829, The Battle of Navarino: Or the Renegade‎^[7], Digitized edition, published 2010, page 40:

     Grooped around the fires on which they were preparing their provisions, …

参照

• groop in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
• groop in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911