English Dictionary

hockey stick

名詞

カナダ英語 アメリカ英語 イギリス英語 くだけた表現

(Canada, US, ice hockey) A stick used to handle the puck in ice hockey, having a flat, angled blade at the end.

日本語の意味

アイスホッケーでパックを扱うために使用されるスティック。先端には平らで斜めに傾いたブレードが付いている。

She passed the puck with her new hockey stick during practice.

彼女は練習中に新しいアイスホッケー用のスティックでパックをパスした。

意味（1）

(Canada, US, ice hockey) A stick used to handle the puck in ice hockey, having a flat, angled blade at the end.

意味（2）

(Britain, field hockey) A stick used to handle the ball in field hockey, having a flat-faced hook at the end.

The game itself, though played by men, was probably meant to enact a mediation of the opposites of male and female, with a circular puck being the feminine symbol and the phallic hockey stick being the masculine symbol.

意味（3）

(poker) A playing card with the rank of seven.

意味（4）

(informal, statistics) A statistical trend in a graph of survey data in which most of the results are flat and then the graph suddenly peaks in a steep near-vertical direction.

One of the pillars of the case for man-made global warming is a graph nicknamed the hockey stick. It's a reconstruction of temperatures over the past 1,000 years based on records captured in tree rings, corals and other markers. The stick's shaft shows temperatures oscillating slightly over the ages. Then comes the blade: The mercury swings sharply upward in the 20th century.

hockey sticks （ plural ）