Kerbとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• curb (US and Canada)
• kirb (obsolete)

語源

From curb (“raised border or frame”) [from mid-17th c.]. Doublet of curve.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /kɝb/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kɜːb/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)b
• 異形同音異義語: curb, kirb

名詞

kerb (plural kerbs)

1. (British, Australia, New Zealand) The raised edge between the pavement and the roadway, typically made of concrete though originally consisting of a line of kerbstones.
   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 164:

     Mobile starting-gates and horse-boxes stand parked along the kerbs, and behind every large house, it seems, is a red brick stableyard, gleaming with fresh black-and-white paint and polished steel.

2. A stone ring built to enclose and sometimes revet the cairn or barrow built over a chamber tomb.
3. Alternative form of curb (“raised margin along the edge of a well, etc.”)

派生語

動詞

kerb (third-person singular simple present kerbs, present participle kerbing, simple past and past participle kerbed)

1. (British, transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tyres by running into or over a pavement kerb.
2. To take a dog to the kerb for the purpose of evacuating.
   • 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 35:

     I was fidgeting a bit, because three dogs were sniffing at my ankles in an interested fashion. They were going out to be kerbed[.]

アナグラム

• Berk, berk, brek