English Dictionary

fathom

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈfað(ə)m/

名詞

歴史的 比喩的用法 複数形 廃用

(chiefly nautical, historical) Originally, the distance between an adult man's arms stretched out away from the sides of his torso so that they make a straight line perpendicular to his body, measured from the tips of the longest fingers of each hand, generally reckoned to be six feet (about 1.8 metres); subsequently used as a unit for water depth but now generally replaced by the metre.

日本語の意味

水深の単位で、通常は1ファゾム＝約1.8メートル（6フィート）として用いられる。

The captain asked him to lay out a fathom on the deck so the crew could see how long it was.

船長は乗組員にその長さが分かるよう、彼に甲板に約6フィート（約1.8メートル）の長さを示すよう頼んだ。

意味（1）

(chiefly nautical, historical) Originally, the distance between an adult man's arms stretched out away from the sides of his torso so that they make a straight line perpendicular to his body, measured from the tips of the longest fingers of each hand, generally reckoned to be six feet (about 1.8 metres); subsequently used as a unit for water depth but now generally replaced by the metre.

[T]he ſhipmen deemed that they drew neere to ſome countrey: And ſounded, and found it twentie fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they ſounded againe, and found it fifteene fathoms.

意味（2）

(chiefly in the plural) An unspecified depth.

意味（3）

(archaic or obsolete) Depth of insight; mental reach or scope.

Another of his fathome they haue not / To leade their buſineſſe, […]

意味（4）

The act of stretching out one's arms away from the sides of the torso so that they make a straight line perpendicular to the body.

意味（5）

Someone or something that is embraced.

Thy Bride, thy choice, thy vvife, / She that is novv thy fadom, […] Kneele at thy feete, obay in euerie thing, / So euerie Father is a priuate King.

意味（6）

(figuratively) Control, grasp.

So; novv knovv I vvhere I am, me thinkes already / I graſpe beſt part of the Autumnian bleſſing / In my contentious fadome, […]

fathoms （ plural ）