siren

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈsaɪəɹən/

名詞

ギリシャ語

(Greek mythology) One of a group of nymphs who lured mariners to their death on the rocks. / One who sings sweetly and charms. / A dangerously seductive woman.

日本語の意味

ギリシア神話に登場する、船乗りを岩礁に導き命を落とさせる妖魅のある霊的存在 / 甘美な歌声で人を魅了する存在 / 非常に魅惑的で、同時に危険な女性

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As the ship neared the rocky coast, the crew whispered that the haunting song of a siren would lure them to their doom.

船が岩の多い海岸に近づくと、乗組員たちはセイレーンの不気味な歌が彼らを滅亡へと誘うだろうとささやいた。

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意味（1）

(Greek mythology) One of a group of nymphs who lured mariners to their death on the rocks.

Now give ear to what I'm about to say to you , and a god himself will bring it before your mind . First , you will come to the Sirens . These beings enthrall all men who arrive before them . Whoever draws near without knowledge and ...

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意味（2）

One who sings sweetly and charms.

意味（3）

A dangerously seductive woman.

意味（4）

(biology) A member of an order of mammals of Sirenia.

意味（5）

(biology) A member of a genus of aquatic salamanders of the family Sirenidae, commonly used for all species subsumed under the family of Sirenidae.

意味（6）

(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Hestina.

意味（7）

A device, either mechanical or electronic, that makes a piercingly loud sound as an alarm or signal, or the sound from such a device (first recorded 1879).

My attention was diverted from this sight by a furious yelling, like that of the thing called a siren in our manufacturing towns.

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意味（8）

(music) A musical instrument, one of the few aerophones in the percussion section of the symphony orchestra (patented as Acme Siren in 1895).

意味（9）

An instrument for demonstrating the laws of beats and combination tones.

意味（10）

(astronomy, astrophysics) An astrophysical event that can be used for calculating cosmic distances.

2017, B.P. Abbott, “A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

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sirens （ plural ）

sirenes （ plural ）