Spannerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From span +‎ -er.

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: spăn'ə(r), IPA: /ˈspæn.ə(ɹ)/
• (米国発音) enPR: spăn'ər, IPA: /ˈspæn.ɚ/
• 韻: -ænə(ɹ)

名詞

spanner (plural spanners)

1. (Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) A hand tool for adjusting nuts and bolts.

   Synonym: wrench (US, Canada)

   Hypernyms: hand tool < tool

   Pass me that spanner, Jake; there's just one more bolt to screw in.

   • 2025 December 19, Kashmir Hill, quoting Amanda Askell, “Why Do A.I. Chatbots Use ‘I’?”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     Tools don’t have judgment or ethics, and they might fail to push back on bad ideas or dangerous requests. “Your spanner’s never like, ‘This shouldn’t be built,’” she said, using a British term for wrench.

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   1. (Canada, US) Any of certain types of such a tool that have a pin or hook to engage the driven object.

      Hypernyms: wrench (US, Canada) < hand tool < tool

      The groove in this toolholder is what the spanner grabs onto when you are changing the tool.

2. (rare) One who, or that which, spans.
   • 1915, Florence Kiper Frank, The Jew to Jesus: and other poems:

     The scheme of the spanner of continents and the desire of the little husbandman hoarding for his loved ones...

3. (graph theory) A (usually sparse) graph whose shortest path distances approximate those in a dense graph or other metric space.
4. (weaponry) A hand tool shaped like a small crank handle, for winding the spring of a wheel lock on a musket.
   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, Fig. 10., page xvi:

     The spanner for spanning or winding up the spring of the wheel lock.

5. (obsolete) A device in early steam engines for moving the valves for the alternate admission and shutting off of the steam.
6. (UK, Ireland) A problem, dilemma or obstacle; something unexpected or troublesome (in the phrase spanner in the works)

   Halfway through the production of Macbeth, the director found that the stage was smaller than he expected. This really threw a spanner in the works.

7. (UK, Ireland, mildly derogatory) A stupid or unintelligent person; one prone to making mistakes, especially in language.

   You spanner, Rodney! I wanted some time, not a bunch of thyme!

同意語

• (hand tool for nuts and bolts): wrench (US)

派生語

派生した語

動詞

spanner (third-person singular simple present spanners, present participle spannering, simple past and past participle spannered)

1. To use a spanner; to fix with a spanner

アナグラム

• Pensarn, panners