mowとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /məʊ/
• (米国発音) IPA: /moʊ/
• 韻: -əʊ

動詞

mow (third-person singular simple present mows, present participle mowing, simple past mowed, past participle mown or mowed)

1. (transitive) To cut down grass or crops.

   He mowed the lawn every few weeks in the summer.

2. (transitive, often with through) To cut down or slaughter in great numbers.
   • 1915, Captain Robert Palmer, Letters from Mesopotamia:

     In the afternoon they attacked again, in close formation: our artillery mowed them, but they came on and on, […]

   • 2019 March 6, Drachinifel, 25:58 from the start, in The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships!‎, archived from the original on 4 July 2022:

     On the one hand, we had a scenario where, effectively, the American admiral just went "You know what, all the destroyers attack", at which point they mowed through the Japanese destroyers like a Grim Reaper through a harvest of very, very dead gorn, especially with the Brooklyns in support.

派生語

関連する語

• aftermath, math
• mead, meadow

名詞

mow (plural mows)

1. The act of mowing (a garden, grass, etc.).

   The lawn hasn't had a mow for a couple of months, so it's like a jungle out there!

2. (cricket) A shot played with a sweeping or scythe-like motion.
   • 1828, Sporting Magazine (volume 21? 71? page 10)

     I consider it would engender a stiff, tame, cautious mode of play, with only now and then a mow, or a chopping hit.

   • 2015, Lawrence Booth, The Shorter Wisden 2015:

     At times, they seemed to be playing an especially orgiastic version of Stick Cricket, all computerised mows over midwicket and 30 off the over.

派生語

語源 2

From 中期英語 mowe, from Old French moe (“grimace”), from Frankish *mauwa (“pout, protruding lip”), from Proto-Germanic *mawwō (“muff, sleeve”). Akin to Middle Dutch mouwe (“protruding lip”). Doublet of moue ("pout").

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /məʊ/
• (米国発音) IPA: /moʊ/
• 韻: -əʊ

名詞

mow (plural mows)

1. (now only dialectal) A scornful grimace; a wry face. [from 14th c.]
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
     , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.212:

     Those that paint them dying […] delineate the prisoners spitting in their executioners faces, and making mowes at them.

   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

     Make mows at him.

動詞

mow (third-person singular simple present mows, present participle mowing, simple past and past participle mowed)

1. To make grimaces, mock.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

     For every trifle are they set upon me: / Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me, / And after bite me;

   • 1848, William Tyndale, edited by Henry Walter, Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scriptures:

     Nodding, becking, and mowing.

   • 1894, Stanley J. Weyman, “Chapter III”, in Under the Red Robe:

     He mowed at me, and, bowing with ironical politeness, pointed to the house.

派生語

語源 3

From 中期英語 mowe, form 古期英語 mūga, mūha, from Proto-West Germanic *mūgō, *mūhō, from Proto-Germanic *mūgô, *mūhō; perhaps connected to Ancient Greek μύκων (múkōn, “heap”). Cognate with Norwegian muge (“heap, crowd, flock”).

発音

• IPA: /maʊ̯/
• 韻: -aʊ

名詞

mow (plural mows)

1. (now regional) A stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans.
2. The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.

動詞

mow (third-person singular simple present mows, present participle mowing, simple past and past participle mowed)

1. (agriculture) To put into mows.

語源 4

名詞

mow (plural mows)

1. Alternative form of mew (a seagull)

参考

• Mow in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

アナグラム

• OMW, WMO, WOM

名詞

mow

1. alternative form of mowe (“kinswoman”)

語源 2

動詞

mow

1. alternative form of mowen (“to be able to”)

語源 3

動詞

mow

1. alternative form of mowen (“to mow”)