English Dictionary

cave

IPA（発音記号）

/keɪv/

名詞

不可算名詞 未分類 比喩的用法 俗語 廃用

A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside. / A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.

日本語の意味

地下や崖、丘の側面に自然に形成される大きな空洞、洞窟 / 自然または人為的に作られた場合も含む、土や岩石の中の穴、窪み

We explored the cave at the edge of the cliff until sundown.

私たちは崖の端にある洞窟を日没まで探検しました。

意味（1）

A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.

The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.

意味（2）

A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.

Every boy at one time or another has dug a cave; I suppose because ages and ages ago his ancestors had to live in caves, […]

意味（3）

A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.

This wine has been aged in our cave for thirty years.

意味（4）

A place of retreat, such as a man cave.

My room was a cozy cave where I could escape from my family.

意味（5）

(caving) A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.

It was not strictly a cave, but a narrow fissure in the rock.

意味（6）

(nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.

These potential radiation fields or radioactive material levels may be the result of normal operations (ie, radiation in a target cave) […]

意味（7）

(drilling, uncountable) Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.

[…] the casing can then be placed in the hole without encountering any cave and core drilling in rock can begin.

意味（8）

(mining) A collapse or cave-in.

The breasts of marble which unite the opposite lateral walls have been left standing in order to prevent a possible cave of the wall on either side.

意味（9）

(figuratively, also slang) The vagina.

Then without a word she lay on her back in the bed, her dark blond pubic hair rising about her dark wet cave like dried brush about a hidden spring.

意味（10）

(slang, politics, often "Cave") A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.

Without joining the cave, Hyde had abstained both in December 1956 and May 1957.

意味（11）

(obsolete) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.

the cave of the ear

意味（12）

(programming) A code cave.

Once a code cave is created, you can execute it using either thread injection or thread hijacking. […] Additionally, you'd need to make sure that the cave properly cleans the stack.

caves （ plural ）