Eye browとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈaɪˌbɹaʊ/

名詞

eyebrow (plural eyebrows)

1. The hair that grows over the bone ridge above the eye socket.
2. (construction) A dormer, usually of small size, whose roof line over the upright face is typically an arched curve, turning into a reverse curve to meet the horizontal line at either end.
3. A clump of waste fibres that builds up in a roller machine.

同意語

• (hair): brow, supercilium, vallum

下位語

• (hair): monobrow, unibrow

派生語

動詞

eyebrow (third-person singular simple present eyebrows, present participle eyebrowing, simple past and past participle eyebrowed)

1. (intransitive) To build up waste fibres in a roller machine.
2. (transitive) To signal with one's eyebrows.
   • 2015, Kathy Reichs, Bones Never Lie, page 23:

     Rodas watched Tinker disappear through the door before eyebrowing a question at Barrow. Barrow gestured at him to stay put. Rodas settled back.

参考

• eyelash
• eyelid

参照

• eyebrow on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Eyebrows on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons