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clue

/klu/ 標準 頻度 3257位

要点手がかり、糸口、名,clue

意味

  1. (問題・なぞなどを解く)手がかり,(研究などの)糸口,端緒;(話などの)筋道《+to+名》
  2. =ciew1
  3. =clew3
  4. 《clue in(up)+名,clue+名+in(up)》(…について)…に手掛かり(情報)を与える《+about(on)+名》

例文

語源

英語の原文(Wiktionary)

Variant of clew (“a ball of thread or yarn”), from Middle English clew, clewe, clowe, clue, clwe, clyw, clywe, from Old English clēowen, clīewen, clīowen, clīwen, clȳwe, clȳwen (“ball, sphere; skein”), from Proto-West Germanic *kliuwīn (“ball, clump”), from Proto-Germanic *kliuwīną, *klewô (“bale, ball, clump, mass”), from Proto-Indo-European *glew- (“to ball up, clump together; lump, swelling”). Sense evolution with reference to the one which the mythical Theseus used to guide him out of the Minotaur's labyrinth. More at clew.

出典: Wiktionary「clue」(CC BY-SA 4.0)

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