LATHとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 laththe, laþþe, earlier lathe, laþe, altered from 古期英語 lætt (“lath”), from Proto-West Germanic *lattu, from Proto-Germanic *lattō, *laþþō (compare Dutch lat, German Latte) from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lat- (compare Welsh llath (“rod, wand, yard”)).

別の表記

• lat, latt (Scotland)

名詞

lath (plural laths)

1. A thin, narrow strip, fastened to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting a covering of tiles, plastering, etc.

   Synonym: lath strap

   • 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet:

     "You are as thin as a lath and as brown as a nut."

   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

     The rubble waits him, sloping up to broken rear walls in a clogging, an openwork of laths pointlessly chevroning-flooring, furniture, glass, chunks of plaster, long tatters of wallpaper, split and shattered joists […].

   • 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 21:

     Lanna says about wishing she was bigger in the chest and I goes that I had nothing to beat there and I was thin as a lat.

2. (geology, petrology) Microscopic, needle-like crystals, usually of plagioclase feldspar, in a glassy groundmass
3. (mining) One of the sharp-edged, thick planks driven forward to hold back loose earth or mud when digging the way through for tunnelling or spiling. Also called a spill.

Holonyms

• lattice

派生語

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動詞

lath (third-person singular simple present laths, present participle lathing, simple past and past participle lathed)

1. (transitive) To cover or line with laths.

派生語

語源 2

名詞

lath (plural laths)

1. Alternative form of lat (“staff; monumental pillar”).

アナグラム

• HALT, thal, halt, Thal