English Dictionary

swell

IPA（発音記号）

/swɛl/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 古風 くだけた表現

The act of swelling; increase in size. / A bulge or protuberance. / Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.

日本語の意味

膨張、拡大（物体が大きくなること） / 膨らみ、こぶ、隆起（物体の突起部分） / 表現力や感情の高揚、盛り上がり（強調されたスタイルやレトリックの増大）

The sudden swell of her ankle forced her to remove her shoe.

足首の突然の腫れで、彼女は靴を脱がなければならなかった。

意味（1）

The act of swelling; increase in size.

意味（2）

A bulge or protuberance.

意味（3）

Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.

Concentrated are his arguments, select and distinct and orderly his topics, ready and unfastidious his expressions, popular his allusions, plain his illustrations, easy the swell and subsidence of his periods […]

意味（4）

A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.

There was a great, smooth swell upon the sea.

意味（5）

(music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.

He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.

意味（6）

(music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.

意味（7）

(music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.

意味（8）

A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.

Off on the crest of a swell a moving figure was seen now and then. Antelope, said the hunters.

意味（9）

(geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.

意味（10）

(informal, dated) A person who is stylish, fancy, or elegant.

It costs him no more to wear all his ornaments about his distinguished person than to leave them at home. If you can be a swell at a cheap rate, why not?

意味（11）

(informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.

I am not in Mr Crosbie's confidence. He is in the General Committee Office, I know; and, I believe, has pretty nearly the management of the whole of it. I'll tell you what he is, Bell; Mr Crosbie is a swell. And Lilian Dale was right; Mr Crosbie was a swell.

意味（12）

The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.

swells （ plural ）