half-mastとは意味・読み方・使い方

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half-mast (uncountable)

The lowered position, half the height of a mast, at which a flag is flown when mourning, especially expressing respect for the deceased.
- 2016 October 13, Department for Culture, Media & Sport and Foreign & Commonwealth Office, "Flag-flying from UK government buildings for the death of the King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand", GOV.UK, Government Digital Service:
  
  Any other UK national flags flown alongside the Union Flag when it is at half-mast should also be at half-mast.
- 2023 November 2, “China mourns late ex-Premier Li Keqiang”, in Deutsche Welle‎, archived from the original on 02 November 2023, China‎:
  
  He is to be cremated later Thursday at a ceremony likely to be attended by the country 's top leadership.
  Flags were seen flying at half-mast in Beijing 's Tiananmen Square. China's state news agency Xinhua reported that flags would be lowered at government buildings across mainland China, semi-autonomous regions of Hong Kong and Macau, and in consulates abroad.
(by extension) The lowered position of anything.
(clothing, colloquial) An unfashionably short length of a pair of trousers.
- 2016, Jeff Payne, Rider (page 142)
  
  I looked around. Ari in a green jacket with four inches of fore arm showing and trousers at half mast, Penny and I in mismatched padded jackets and ski trousers which were way too long; and all wearing the silver moon boots that had been the rage in the early eighties.
(euphemistic) The state of having a partially erect penis.
- 2009, Stephen Cannell, At First Sight: A Novel of Obsession, Vanguard Press, →ISBN, page 227:
  
  Finally, he was at half-mast, hanging out over the toilet seat, barely erect.

動詞

half-mast (third-person singular simple present half-masts, present participle half-masting, simple past and past participle half-masted)

(transitive) To fly a flag in this position.

同意語

(flag) half-staff
(erection) semi

参照

(short trousers): Tony Thorne (2014), “half-mast”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London; […]: Bloomsbury


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