English Dictionary

stricture

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈstɹɪkt͡ʃə(ɹ)/

名詞

可算名詞 通例複数形 不可算名詞 廃用

(usually in the plural) A rule restricting behaviour or action. / A general state of restrictiveness on behavior, action, or ideology. / A sternly critical remark or review.

日本語の意味

行動や振る舞いを制限する規則 / 行動、行為、またはイデオロギーに対する制約の状態 / 厳しく批判する発言や批評

The museum's only stricture was that visitors must not touch the exhibits.

その美術館の唯一の制約は、来館者が展示物に触れてはいけないということだった。

意味（1）

(usually in the plural) A rule restricting behaviour or action.

To his eyes it had no attraction; it savoured of simony, and was likely to bring down upon him harder and more deserved strictures than any he had yet received: he positively declined to become vicar of Puddingdale under any circumstances.

意味（2）

A general state of restrictiveness on behavior, action, or ideology.

I just couldn't take the stricture of that place a single day more.

意味（3）

A sternly critical remark or review.

When he read the poem to his parents, upon its conclusion, both were much impressed by it, though his father made severe strictures upon its lack of polish, its terminal inconcision, and its vagueness of thought.

意味（4）

(medicine) Abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body.

Even in the brief moment of his entrance into the magnificence of Anthony Harding's home he had felt a strange little stricture of the throat—a choking, half-suffocating sensation.

意味（5）

(obsolete) Strictness.

a man of stricture and firm abstinence

意味（6）

(obsolete) A stroke; a glance; a touch.

But whatever may be said of other matters , certainly the first draughts and strictures of Natural Religion and Morality are naturally in the Mind

意味（7）

(linguistics) The degree of contact, in consonants.

strictures （ plural ）