English Dictionary

keel

IPA（発音記号）

/kiːl/

名詞

広義

(nautical) A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern.

日本語の意味

船体の強度を保つため、船の底部に沿って取り付けられる主要な梁（龍骨とも呼ばれる）。

The shipwright examined the keel for any signs of damage after the voyage.

船大工は航海の後、竜骨に損傷の兆候がないか調べた。

意味（1）

(nautical) A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern.

意味（2）

(nautical) A rigid, flat piece of material anchored to the lowest part of the hull of a ship to give it greater control and stability.

意味（3）

(aeronautics) In a dirigible, a construction similar in form and use to a ship's keel; in an aeroplane, a fin or fixed surface employed to increase stability and to hold the machine to its course.

意味（4）

(by extension) The rigid bottom part of something else, especially an iceberg.

Coordinate term: bummock

意味（5）

(nautical) A type of flat-bottomed boat.

意味（6）

(zoology) The periphery of a whorl extended to form a more or less flattened plate; a prominent spiral ridge.

意味（7）

(botany) The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and enclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina.

Vegetatively it is the nearest to H. translucens with its oblong-lanceolate leaves, with the margins and keel beset with pellucid teeth, but it differs and is characterised by the greyish-black quadrantly positioned globose flowers; […]

keels （ plural ）