English Dictionary

swatch

IPA（発音記号）

/swɒtʃ/

名詞

比喩的用法 イングランド北部方言 廃用

A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth or a similar material. / A selection of such samples bound together. / (figuratively) A clump or portion of something.

日本語の意味

（布などの）見本、サンプル / サンプル集、見本帳 / （比喩的に）一部分、断片

She pinned the swatch to the curtain to see how the colors and patterns would look together.

彼女は色と柄がどう見えるか確かめるために、その生地見本をカーテンにピンで留めた。

意味（1）

A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth or a similar material.

He held a swatch of the wallpaper up to see if the colors would match the room.

意味（2）

A selection of such samples bound together.

意味（3）

(figuratively) A clump or portion of something.

Mix ultramarine blue and alizarin crimson in your palette until you get a rich purple, then paint a swatch on dry watercolor paper …. Next paint a swatch of ultramarine blue on dry watercolor paper. While this is still wet, add alizarin crimson to the lower part of the blue wash, and watch the colors connect and blend …. Compare the two swatches.

意味（4）

(figuratively) A demonstration, an example, a proof.

Pray Sir, pay off the Old Debt, before I truſt you more New. This is a Swatch of Your Faith, and how much You are a Man of Your Word.

意味（5）

(Northern England, obsolete) A tag or other small object attached to another item as a means of identifying its owner; a tally; specifically the counterfoil of a tally.

ITEM that the said Clerkis of the Brevements entre all the Taillis of the Furniunturs in the Jornall Booke in the Countynghous every day furthwith after the Brede be delyveret to the Pantre and then the Stoke [i.e., main part] of the Taill to by delyveret to the Baker and the Swache to the Pantler. … ITEM that the said Clerkis of the Brevements entre all the Taills of the Brasyantors in the Jornall Booke in the Countynghous at every tyme furthwith after the Bere be delyveret into the Buttry and then the Stoke of the Taill to be delyveret to the Brewar and the Swatche to the Butler.

swatches （ plural ）