English Dictionary

Christmas tree

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈkɹɪsməs tɹiː/

名詞

広義 くだけた表現 歴史的 俗語

A conifer used during the Christmas holiday season, typically decorated with lights and ornaments and often a star or angel at its tip.

日本語の意味

クリスマスの祝祭時期に使用される針葉樹。通常、ライトやオーナメントで装飾され、先端に星や天使が置かれることが多い。

We spent the afternoon decorating the Christmas tree with homemade ornaments and twinkling lights.

私たちは午後を手作りのオーナメントときらめくライトでクリスマスツリーを飾ることに費やしました。

意味（1）

A conifer used during the Christmas holiday season, typically decorated with lights and ornaments and often a star or angel at its tip.

At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth, stepped back from the tree and listened. There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.

意味（2）

(informal, by extension) Anything elaborately ornamented or decorated.

The modern infantryman is a Christmas tree of weaponry, with grenades and extra ammunition hanging from all parts of his upper body.

意味（3）

(racing) A pole with lights, similar to a traffic signal, used for signalling the start of an automobile race.

Then, after a smoky-burnout to warm up the tires, you're lined up next to another competitor and the Christmas tree lights blink down... yellow, yellow, yellow, green!

意味（4）

(oil industry jargon) The collection of valves sometimes found at the top of a working oil well.

Wellheads, which support downhole tubing, casing, and other components, are connected at the top of wells to Christmas trees, which control production rates and fluid flows out of the well and may also direct fluids and equipment into the well

意味（5）

(bodybuilding) A pattern of muscles visible in the lower back, resembling in outline the shape of a conifer.

These are great for really developing that Christmas tree in your lower back and the proper arch at the top is key in that regard.

意味（6）

(aviation, historical) A type of alert area constructed by the Strategic Air Command of the United States Air Force during the Cold War.

意味（7）

(military, slang) A panel of indicator lights in an aircraft or a submarine.

One of the most important color discriminations involved in the operation of a submarine is that of reading the Christmas tree, a panel of 30 to 60 small jewel-shaped lights, used to indicate whether hull openings, such as hatches and vents, are sealed or not.

Christmas trees （ plural ）