English Dictionary

growl

IPA（発音記号）

/ɡɹaʊl/

名詞

広義

A deep, rumbling, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal. / (by extension) A similar sound made by a human. / (by extension) The rumbling sound made by a human's hungry stomach.

日本語の意味

動物が喉から出す、深いうなりや脅威を感じさせる音 / （転じて）人が出す、似たような低いうなりの音 / （拡大解釈として）空腹時に人のお腹から出る、低いうなりのような音

When the hikers approached the abandoned cabin, a sudden growl echoed from inside, sending a chill down their spines.

ハイカーたちが廃屋に近づくと、中から突然、動物の喉から発せられる低いうなり声が響き、全員の背筋が凍った。

意味（1）

A deep, rumbling, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal.

Hardly anything is more intensely disagreeable to one walking along the street, than to hear near his path a low savage growl—the expression of a surly dog's opinion and purpose.

意味（2）

(by extension) A similar sound made by a human.

意味（3）

(by extension) The rumbling sound made by a human's hungry stomach.

Riding down the main thoroughfare, the growl of his stomach taints the soothing jazz playing on the radio.

意味（4）

(by extension) An aggressive grumbling.

The clerk promised that he would; and Scrooge walked out with a growl. The office was closed in a twinkling, and the clerk, with the long ends of his white comforter dangling below his waist (for he boasted no great-coat), went down a slide on Cornhill, at the end of a lane of boys, twenty times, in honour of its being Christmas Eve, and then ran home to Camden Town as hard as he could pelt, to play at blindman's-buff.

意味（5）

(jazz, by extension) A low-pitched rumbling sound produced with a wind instrument.

The growl effect comes from fitting a small straight mute—a cornet mute for trumpet and a trumpet mute for trombone—covering the instrument's bell with a rubber plunger, the kind used by plumbers, and moving it in and out to affect the tone.

growls （ plural ）