English Dictionary

ledger

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈlɛd͡ʒə/

名詞

略語 別表記

A book for keeping notes; a record book, a register. / A book or other scheme for keeping accounting records.

日本語の意味

台帳（取引や会計記録を記入するための帳簿） / 記録帳（注記や記録を保管するための書籍）

She kept a small leather ledger on her desk to jot down project ideas and reminders.

彼女はプロジェクトのアイデアや覚え書きを書き留めるために、机の上に小さな革のノートを置いていた。

意味（1）

A book for keeping notes; a record book, a register.

Our ledger has no entry for the human pain caused by war.

意味（2）

A book or other scheme for keeping accounting records.

意味（3）

(cryptocurrencies) A distributed ledger, a public financial transaction database, typically using a blockchain.

To be clear: there's only one ledger, but that ledger is not stored in any one central location. Rather, identical copies exist on every node—a copy on every computer.

意味（4）

(accounting) A collection of accounting entries consisting of credits and debits.

The Leger exhibits at one view the accounts with an individual, as it contains on the Dr. [debit] side whatever he has received, and on the Cr. [credit] side whatever he has paid. […] Let each account be posted from the Day Book in its proper place in the Leger. If a mistake be made, let it be corrected by an account in the Day Book, clearly stating the correction, and then let this account be posted in its proper place in the Leger, that no blot or erasure may disfigure its pages.

意味（5）

A large, flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb.

In Great Britain ledgers that were placed outside of churches are sometimes termed external ledgers, while those placed within churches are called internal ledgers […] Ledgers generally sit directly on the ground or on low supports.

意味（6）

(construction) A board attached to a wall to provide support for attaching other structural elements (such as deck joists or roof rafters) to a building.

[The dome was] turned upon a centre laid without any standard from below to support it. Every story of the scaffolding being circular, and the ends of the ledgers meeting as so many rings, and truly wrought, it supported itself; […]

意味（7）

(fishing) Short for ledger bait (“fishing bait attached to a floating line fastened to the bank of a pond, stream, etc.”) or ledger line (“fishing line used with ledger bait for bottom fishing; ligger”).

[W]hen fishing for Eels with a ledger line as well as a floated line, don't be in too much haste to strike when you see a bite, for Eels generally gorge the bait, and consequently hook themselves, if you give them time, […] I always use two hooks on my ledger, placing the top one about two feet above the bottom, and to prevent it from moving from its proper place, fix a shot above it and below it, […]

ledgers （ plural ）