English Dictionary

snail

IPA（発音記号）

/sneɪl/

名詞

広義 くだけた表現 歴史的

Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell. / (informal, by extension) A slow person; a sluggard.

日本語の意味

カタツムリ（巻貝）など、巻貝を持つ腹足類のこと。 / のろまな人、ぐずな人。

A snail slowly crossed the garden path, leaving a glistening trail on the stone.

カタツムリが庭の小道をゆっくりと横切り、石の上に光る跡を残した。

意味（1）

Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.

‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’

意味（2）

(informal, by extension) A slow person; a sluggard.

意味（3）

(engineering) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.

意味（4）

(military, historical) A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.

意味（5）

The pod of the snail clover.

意味（6）

(rail transport) A locomotive with a prime mover but no traction motors, used to provide extra electrical power to another locomotive.

snails （ plural ）