English Dictionary

fox

IPA（発音記号）

/fɒks/

名詞

比喩的用法 俗語 廃用

A red fox, small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes), related to dogs and wolves, with red or silver fur and a bushy tail.

日本語の意味

狐：赤い毛や銀色の毛を持ち、犬やオオカミに近い仲間に属する小型の食肉動物。ふさふさした尾が特徴的です。

At dusk, the fox paused at the riverbank, listening for the rustle of small prey.

夕暮れ、アカギツネは川辺で立ち止まり、小さな獲物のざわめきを聞き耳を立てた。

意味（1）

A red fox, small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes), related to dogs and wolves, with red or silver fur and a bushy tail.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

意味（2）

Any of numerous species of small wild canids resembling the red fox. In the taxonomy they form the tribe Vulpini within the family Canidae, consisting of nine genera (see the Wikipedia article on the fox).

意味（3）

The fur of a fox.

意味（4）

A fox terrier.

意味（5）

The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color.

意味（6）

(slang, figuratively) A cunning person.

意味（7）

(slang, figuratively) A physically attractive man or woman.

And Jerry was cute, you know, I liked him, but Frank was a total fox. And he was rougher than Jerry, you know, not so cultured.

意味（8）

(slang, figuratively) A person with reddish brown hair, usually a woman.

意味（9）

(nautical) A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.

意味（10）

(mechanics) A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.

意味（11）

A hidden radio transmitter, finding which is the goal of radiosport.

Locating a hidden transmitter (the fox) has been a popular ham activity for many years.

意味（12）

(cartomancy) The fourteenth Lenormand card.

意味（13）

(obsolete) A sword; so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.

Thou diest on point of fox.

foxes （ plural ）

foxen （ dialectal nonstandard plural ）