English Dictionary

scent

IPA（発音記号）

/sɛnt/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 比喩的用法 廃用

A distinctive smell. / A smell left by an animal that may be used for tracing. / The sense of smell. / (chiefly uncountable) A substance (usually liquid) created to provide a pleasant smell.

日本語の意味

独特のにおい / 動物が残す、追跡に利用されるにおい / 嗅覚（においを感じる感覚） / （主に不可算名詞）快い香りを提供するために作られた液体、すなわち香料

The scent of fresh coffee filled the room, waking everyone gently.

淹れたてのコーヒーの独特な香りが部屋に満ち、皆を穏やかに目覚めさせた。

意味（1）

A distinctive smell.

the scent of flowers / of a skunk

意味（2）

A smell left by an animal that may be used for tracing.

The dogs picked up / caught the scent but then quickly lost it.

意味（3）

The sense of smell.

I believe the bloodhound has the best scent of all dogs.

意味（4）

(chiefly uncountable) A substance (usually liquid) created to provide a pleasant smell.

a scent shop

意味（5）

(figuratively) Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.

The minister's off-hand remark put journalists on the scent of a cover-up.

意味（6）

(obsolete) Sense, perception.

A fit false dreame, that can delude the sleepers sent.

scents （ plural ）