bleedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈbliːd/
• 韻: -iːd

動詞

bleed (third-person singular simple present bleeds, present participle bleeding, simple past and past participle bled)

1. (intransitive, of a person, animal or body part) To shed blood through an injured blood vessel.

   If her nose bleeds, try to use ice.

2. (intransitive) To menstruate.
   • 2020 December 25, Chris Van Dusen, “Diamond of the First Water”, in Bridgerton, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Lady Portia Featherington:

     You haven't bled. It's been over a month since your arrival, and you haven't bled.

3. (transitive) To let or draw blood from.
   • 1979, Octavia E. Butler, Kindred, Beacon Press (2024), page 239:

     "What did they die of?" I asked.
     "Fevers. The doctor came and bled them and purged them, but they still died."
     "He bled and purged babies?"
     "They were two and three. He said it would break the fever. And it did. But they ... they died anyway."

4. (transitive) To take large amounts of money from.
5. (transitive) To steadily lose (something vital).

   The company was bleeding talent.

6. (intransitive, of an ink or dye) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.

   Ink traps counteract bleeding.

   • 2020, Eley Williams, The Liarʼs Dictionary, William Heinemann, page 201:

     The ink bled only a little; if one raised the index card to one’s eye, it was possible to see the microscopic wisps and flicks seep out from the intended lines and curves out into the paper’s grain.

7. (transitive) To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
8. (transitive) To tap off high-pressure gas (usually air) from a system that produces high-pressure gas primarily for another purpose.

   At low engine speeds, valves open to bleed some of the highly-compressed air from the later compressor stages, helping to prevent engine surging.

   High-pressure air bled from the APU is used to spin up the engines and run the APU generator and hydraulic pump, and can also be used to pressurise the cabin if necessary.

9. (obsolete, transitive) To bleed on; to make bloody.
10. (intransitive, copulative, figurative) To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.

    He was a devoted Vikings fan: he bled purple.

11. To lose sap, gum, or juice.

    A tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.

12. To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
    • 1713, [Alexander] Pope, Windsor-Forest. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:

      For me the balm shall bleed.

13. (phonology, transitive, of a phonological rule) To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.

    Antonym: feed

    Labialization bleeds palatalization.

14. (publishing, advertising, ambitransitive) To (cause to) extend to the edge of the page, without leaving any margin.
    • 1998, Macmillan Dictionary of Marketing and Advertising, page 35:

      Full-page and double-page colour advertisements in the Sunday colour magazines usually bleed off the page' (or are 'bled to the margin'), […]

    • 2004, Dorothy A. Bowles, Diane L. Borden, Creative Editing, page 361:

      Too, bleeding beyond margins provides editors with several picas of space for more layout.

15. (finance, intransitive) To lose money.

    Most of the sectors are bleeding, particularly the resources sector.

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名詞

bleed (countable and uncountable, plural bleeds)

1. An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
2. (aviation, usually in the plural) A system for tapping hot, high-pressure air from a gas turbine engine for purposes such as cabin pressurization and airframe anti-icing.

   When taking off at high altitude or at near-maximum weight, the bleeds have to be turned off temporarily, as they decrease engine power somewhat.

3. (printing) A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).
4. (television) A margin left at the edges of a shot to allow for the picture being cropped when it arrives at viewers' screens.
5. (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
6. The removal of air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
7. (uncountable, roleplaying games) The phenomenon of in-character feelings affecting a player's feelings or actions outside of the game.

派生語

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “bleed”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “bleed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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