English Dictionary

spike

IPA（発音記号）

/spaɪk/

動詞

比喩的用法 俗語

To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails. / To set or furnish with spikes. / To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people.

日本語の意味

（長い大きな釘や鋭いとげで）固定する、留める / （釘や鋭い突起を）備え付ける、装備する / 木などに釘を打ち込み、切り倒そうとすると器具が損傷したり怪我を負わせるようにする

They decided to spike the wooden planks to the beams to ensure the floor wouldn't shift.

彼らは床がずれないように、木製の板を梁に大きな釘で打ち付けることにした。

意味（1）

To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.

to spike down planks

意味（2）

To set or furnish with spikes.

意味（3）

To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people.

意味（4）

To fix on a spike.

He spiked the story on the “dead” hook and answered his interphone.

意味（5）

(figuratively, journalism) To discard; to decide not to publish or make public.

Nicolaas, or Nick, as the family called him, wanted to turn professional but an ear injury, sustained during the war, spiked his plans.

意味（6）

To increase sharply.

Traffic accidents spiked in December when there was ice on the roads.

意味（7）

To covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance into a drink.

She spiked my lemonade with vodka!

意味（8）

To add a small amount of one substance to another.

The water sample to be tested has been spiked with arsenic, antimony, mercury, and lead in quantities commonly found in industrial effluents.

意味（9）

(volleyball) To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.

意味（10）

(military) To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.

He jumped down, wrenched the hammer from the armourer's hand, and seizing a nail from the bag, in a few moments he had spiked the gun.

意味（11）

(American football slang) To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.

to spike the football

意味（12）

(slang) To inject a drug with a syringe.

spikes （ present singular third-person ）

spiking （ participle present ）

spiked （ participle past ）

spiked （ past ）