English Dictionary

tombstoning

名詞

イギリス英語 不可算名詞 南部アメリカ英語 デジタル図書館

(Britain) The practice of jumping into the sea or similar body of water from a cliff or other high point such that the jumper enters the water vertically straight, like a tombstone.

日本語の意味

崖や高い場所から海や湖などの水面に、墓石のように垂直に突っ込む形で飛び込む行為

Despite warnings, a group of teenagers went tombstoning off the headland and the coastguard was called.

警告にもかかわらず、十代の若者たちが岬の崖から垂直に海へ飛び込み、沿岸警備隊が出動した。

意味（1）

(Britain) The practice of jumping into the sea or similar body of water from a cliff or other high point such that the jumper enters the water vertically straight, like a tombstone.

意味（2）

(computing) The process of (automatically) initiating software sleep mode on an app.

意味（3）

(electronics) An unwanted effect in the manufacture of electronic circuit boards, in which a component stands up on end instead of lying flat.

意味（4）

(journalism) In page layout, putting articles side by side so that the headlines are adjacent. The phenomenon is also referred to as bumping heads.

意味（5）

(Southern US) In highway driving, a blockage in traffic caused by a semi-trailer truck attempting to pass another with insufficient acceleration.

意味（6）

(in digital libraries) The practice of leaving a marker in a location where a digital record has been withdrawn, in order to signify that the record had previously existed.

意味（7）

(medicine) A tombstone pattern on an electrocardiogram.