English Dictionary

canary

IPA（発音記号）

/kəˈnɛəɹi/

名詞

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A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands. / Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour.

日本語の意味

カナリア：小型で通常は黄色いシジュウカラ目の鳥。特にカナリア諸島原産の種を指す。 / カナリア：各国に見られる黄色味のある小型の鳥全般を指す場合もある。

The canary perched on the windowsill and sang so sweetly that the whole room seemed brighter.

カナリア（小さくて普段は黄色く、カナリア諸島原産の小鳥）が窓辺にとまり、とても美しく歌ったので部屋全体が明るく感じられた。

意味（1）

A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.

意味（2）

Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour.

意味（3）

A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour.

canary:

意味（4）

(countable, uncountable) A light, sweet, white wine from the Canary Islands.

Ile to my honeſt knight ſir Iohn Falſtaffe, / And drinke Canary with him.

意味（5）

A lively dance, possibly of Spanish origin (also called canaries).

In an other corner, Mistris Minx, a marchants wife, that will eate no cherries, forsooth, but when they are at twentie shillings a pound, that lookes as simperingly as if she were besmeard, and iets it as gingerly as if she were dancing the canaries, […]

意味（6）

Any test subject, especially an inadvertent or unwilling one. (From the mining practice of using canaries to detect dangerous gases.)

意味（7）

(computing) A value placed in memory such that it will be the first data corrupted by a buffer overflow, allowing the program to identify and recover from it.

意味（8）

(computing) A change that is tested by being rolled out first to a subset of machines or users before rolling out to all.

意味（9）

(informal) A female singer, soprano, a coloratura singer.

意味（10）

(slang) An informer or snitch; a squealer.

意味（11）

(slang) A (usually yellow) capsule of the short-acting barbiturate pentobarbital/pentobarbitone (Nembutal).

意味（12）

(Australia, informal) A yellow sticker of unroadworthiness.

The tendency in these types of situations (as far as I can see) is that because I don't think the act itself is illegal, the police will go through your vehicle systematically loking for anything wrong with it, to slap a canary on it (that's slang for an unroadworthy sticker) or present you with some other fine.

canaries （ plural ）