English Dictionary

wisp

IPA（発音記号）

/wɪsp/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; any slender, flexible structure or group. / A whisk, or small broom. / A will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus.

日本語の意味

細く柔軟な素材（藁など）の小さな束、またはその束状のもの / 細くて柔軟な構造や集まり、群れ / 小さなほうき、またははたきのようなもの / ウィル・オ・ザ・ウィスプ（幽霊火、または魅惑的な幻の光）

She tied a wisp of straw to the birdhouse roof to stop the leaks.

彼女は雨漏りを防ぐために巣箱の屋根にわらの小さな束を結びつけた。

意味（1）

A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; any slender, flexible structure or group.

A wisp of smoke rose from the candle for a few moments after he blew it out.

意味（2）

A whisk, or small broom.

意味（3）

A will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus.

the wisp that flickers where no foot can tread

意味（4）

An immeasurable, indefinable essence of life; soul.

Another traditional answer to the question of what makes us so different, popular for millennia, has been that humans have a non-physical soul, one that inhabits the body but is distinct from it, an ethereal ghostly wisp that floats free at death to enjoy an after-life which may include reunion with other souls, or perhaps a new body to inhabit.

意味（5）

A flock of snipe.

They shift their quarters in the early part of the season very suddenly, and if a man hears of a wisp of snipe in any particular place, he must be off at once.

意味（6）

(uncountable) A disease affecting the feet of cattle.

wisps （ plural ）