English Dictionary

scalp

IPA（発音記号）

/skælp/

名詞

方言 歴史的 比喩的用法 スコットランド英語

(now dialectal) The top of the head; the skull. / The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.

日本語の意味

頭皮：頭部の皮膚、特に髪の毛が生える部分 / 頭頂部：頭の上部、頂上部（方言的な用法として、頭の一番上の部分を指す）

He tied a ribbon around his scalp before the ceremony, following the old village custom.

彼は式の前に村の古い習慣に従って、頭のてっぺんにリボンを結んだ。

意味（1）

(now dialectal) The top of the head; the skull.

意味（2）

The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.

By the bare scalpe of Robin Hoods fat Fryer, / This fellow were a King, for our wilde faction.

意味（3）

(historical) A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory.

Some tribes used to collect scalps to prove how many of the enemy they had killed in battle.

意味（4）

(heraldry) The skin of the head of a stag with the horns attached.

意味（5）

(figuratively) A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.

Pat Buchanan, in his ongoing presidential quest, claimed his first scalp, and Donald Wildmon's newsletter chortled that his efforts in opposing the NEA had paid off.

意味（6）

(Scotland) A bed or stratum of shellfish.

意味（7）

(figuratively) The top; the summit.

the snowy scalp of Ben Cruachan

scalps （ plural ）