English Dictionary

careen

IPA（発音記号）

/kəˈɹiːn/

動詞

他動詞 自動詞 アメリカ英語

(nautical, transitive) To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line.

日本語の意味

船を横に傾け、一方の側面を露出させることで、付着物の除去や修理を行う作業をする

Before the long voyage, the sailors decided to careen the hull to remove the barnacles and patch the damaged planks.

長い航海に出る前、乗組員たちは船を片側に傾けて船底を露出させ、フジツボを取り除き損傷した板を修理することにした。

意味（1）

(nautical, transitive) To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line.

意味（2）

(nautical, intransitive) To tilt on one side.

意味（3）

To lurch or sway violently from side to side.

They were not motionless, but swayed to and fro above her head, thronging out of one sky-light into another, as if the universe and not the air-ship was careening.

意味（4）

To tilt or lean while in motion.

意味（5）

(chiefly US) To career, to move rapidly straight ahead, to rush carelessly.

意味（6）

(chiefly US) To move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way.

The car in which I had taken Olivia to dinner and then out to the cemetery — a historic vehicle, even a monument of sorts, in the history of fellatio's advent onto the Winesburg campus in the second half of the twentieth century — went careening off to the side and turned end-over-end down Lower Main until it exploded in flames...

careens （ present singular third-person ）

careening （ participle present ）

careened （ participle past ）

careened （ past ）