English Dictionary

silk

IPA（発音記号）

/sɪlk/

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞 口語 複数形 通例複数形

(chiefly uncountable) A fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod (such as a spider). / A fine, soft cloth woven from silk fibers.

日本語の意味

絹：蚕などの節足動物が産する細くて柔らかい繊維のこと。 / 絹織物：その絹繊維を用いて織られた柔らかい布地のこと。

The museum's exhibit showed how silk is harvested from silkworm cocoons.

博物館の展示は、繭からどのように絹が採取されるかを示していた。

意味（1）

(chiefly uncountable) A fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod (such as a spider).

The thread made of silk was barely visible.

意味（2）

A fine, soft cloth woven from silk fibers.

It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.

意味（3）

Anything which resembles silk, such as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize, or the seed covering of bombaxes.

Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.

意味（4）

The gown worn by a Senior (i.e. Queen's/King's) Counsel.

意味（5）

(colloquial) A Queen's Counsel, King's Counsel or Senior Counsel.

意味（6）

(circus arts, in the plural) A pair of long silk sheets suspended in the air on which a performer performs tricks.

意味（7）

(horse racing, usually in the plural) The garments worn by a jockey displaying the colors of the horse's owner.

silks （ plural ）