clout

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

IPA（発音記号）

/klaʊt/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 くだけた表現 地域限定 古風 古語 廃用

power or influence over people or events

日本語の意味

影響力 / 権力 / 勢力 / 発言力

英語の意味

power or influence over people or events

ウズベク語

ta’sir kuchi / nufuz / obro‘-e’tibor

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The senator used his clout to secure funding for the community center.

その上院議員は地域センターの資金を確保するために影響力を行使した。

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意味（1）

Influence or effectiveness, especially political.

Having relinquished his clout in City Council to run for a place on the county board, and having lost stature by reason of his failure to win the presidency, Duffy was in no position to seek the party chairmanship for himself

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意味（2）

(regional, informal) A blow with the hand.

‘Such a clout on the ear as you gave me… But I soon taught you.’

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意味（3）

(baseball, informal) A home run.

'... allowed Boston to score all of its runs on homers, including a pair of clouts by Jacoby Ellsbury ...'

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意味（4）

(archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.

For kings are clouts that euery man ſhoots at, Our Crowne the pin that thouſands ſeeke to cleaue.

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意味（5）

(regional, dated) A swaddling cloth.

When a new-hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands in a grass clout, followed by the nibbling goats, as if he were a green sapling; even then, in Queequeg’s ambitious soul, lurked a strong desire to see something more of Christendom than a specimen whaler or two.

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意味（6）

(archaic) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.

His garment nought but many ragged clouts, / With thornes together pind and patched was, / The which his naked sides he wrapt abouts;

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意味（7）

(archaic) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.

Clouts were thin and flat pieces of iron, used it appears to strengthen the box of the wheel; perhaps also for nailing on such other parts of the cart as were particularly exposed to wear.

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意味（8）

A clout nail.

意味（9）

(obsolete) A piece; a fragment.

And whan sche of this bille hath taken heede, / Sche rente it al to cloutes atte laste / And into the privy softely it caste.

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clouts （ plural ）