English Dictionary

kidney

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈkɪdni/

名詞

古風 比喩的用法 廃用 俗語

An organ in the body that filters the blood, producing urine. / This organ (of an animal) cooked as food.

日本語の意味

腎臓：血液をろ過し尿を生成する体内器官。 / 動物の腎臓を食材として調理したもの。

After the accident, doctors worked urgently to save the damaged kidney.

事故の後、医師たちは損傷した腎臓を救うために緊急に処置を行った。

意味（1）

An organ in the body that filters the blood, producing urine.

An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.

意味（2）

This organ (of an animal) cooked as food.

意味（3）

(figuratively, dated) Constitution, temperament, nature, type, character, disposition. (usually used of people)

[…] think of that, – a man of my kidney, – think of that, […]

意味（4）

(obsolete, slang) A waiter.

I once more desire my readers to consider that as I cannot keep an ingenious man to go daily to Will's under twopence each day merely for his charges, to White's under sixpence, nor to the Grecian without allowing him some plain Spanish, to be as able as others at the learned table; and that a good observer cannot speak with even Kidney at St. James's without clean linen; […]

kidneys （ plural ）