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- having a round shape tapered at one end
- make something, usually for a specific function; "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword" (同)form, work, mold, mould, forge
- give shape or form to; "shape the dough"; "form the young childs character" (同)form
- the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance; "geometry is the mathematical science of shape" (同)form
- any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline); "he could barely make out their shapes" (同)form, configuration, contour, conformation
- a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept; "a circle was the embodiment of his concept of life" (同)embodiment
- having the shape of; "a square shaped playing field"
- shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort); "a shaped handgrip"; "the molded steel plates"; "the wrought silver bracelet" (同)molded, wrought
- a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds (同)pea plant
- the fruit or seed of a pea plant
- seed of a pea plant used for food
- Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties (同)pear tree, Pyrus communis
- sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties
- the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
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- 〈C〉〈U〉『形』,外形,形状・〈U〉状態、調子・〈U〉申分のない体調・〈U〉《時にa~》体つき,姿,なり・〈U〉(物事の)状態・…‘を'『形を作る』・‘を'形づける(give form to);(…の形に)‥・‘を'形作る《+『名』+『into』+『名』》・…‘を'形を整える・‘を'合わせる・(…に)…‘を'形を合わせる《+『名』+『to』+『名』》・〈進路・方針など〉‘を'定める・形ができる・具体化する・発展する《+『up』》
- 表面が平らでない / 《複合語を作って》「…を形した」「…形の」の意を表す
- 『エンドウ』;エンドウ豆
- 『西洋ナシ』;西洋ナシの木
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A European pear also known as common pear.
Pear-shaped is a metaphorical term with several meanings, all in reference to the shape of a (European) pear, i.e. tapering towards the top.
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- 1 Body shape
- 2 Voice
- 3 Failure
- 4 Gallery
- 5 References
- 6 External links
Body shape
The comparison is more or less literal when the term is applied to people, where it means narrow at the shoulders and wide at the hips, a use that goes back to at least 1815, and one that can have either positive connotations (as in Venus figurines) or negative, depending upon the context.
Voice
In the 20th century, another, more abstract use of the term evolved. When said of someone's voice, "pear-shaped" means rich and sonorous. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) dates this use to 1925.
Failure
The third meaning is mostly limited[citation needed] to the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa and Australasia. It describes a situation that went awry, perhaps horribly wrong. A failed bank robbery, for example, could be said to have "gone pear-shaped". The origin for this use of the term is in dispute. The OED cites its origin as within the Royal Air Force; as of 2003 the earliest citation there is a quote in the 1983 book Air War South Atlantic.[1]
Gallery
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The pear-shaped fruit of the cashew
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Pear-shaped-pear croustade
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Pear-shaped jar from the Greek island Milos (formerly known as Melos)
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References
- ^ Jeffrey L. Ethell, Alfred Price (1983). Air War South Atlantic. Sidgwick & Jackson. ISBN 0-283-99035-X.
External links
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- OED's entry for the term (Internet Archive, May 4, 2010), Draft revision March 2003, part of a Wordhunt appeal
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English Journal
- Uroperitoneum in cattle: Ultrasonographic findings, diagnosis and treatment.
- Braun U1, Nuss K2.
- Acta veterinaria Scandinavica.Acta Vet Scand.2015 Jul 3;57(1):36. doi: 10.1186/s13028-015-0126-y.
- This review describes causes, clinical signs, metabolic changes in serum and peritoneal fluid, diagnosis and treatment of uroperitoneum. Rupture of the bladder or urachus is the most common cause of uroperitoneum. The main clinical sign is a pear-shaped enlargement of the abdomen accompanied by grad
- PMID 26138743
- Histological and transcript analyses of intact somatic embryos in an elite maize (Zea mays L.) inbred line Y423.
- Liu B1, Su S2, Wu Y3, Li Y4, Shan X5, Li S6, Liu H7, Dong H8, Ding M9, Han J10, Yuan Y11.
- Plant physiology and biochemistry : PPB / Société française de physiologie végétale.Plant Physiol Biochem.2015 Jul;92:81-91. doi: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2015.04.011. Epub 2015 Apr 21.
- Intact somatic embryos were obtained from an elite maize inbred line Y423, bred in our laboratory. Using 13-day immature embryos after self-pollination as explants, and after 4-5 times subculture, a large number of somatic embryos were detected on the surface of the embryonic calli on the medium. Th
- PMID 25931320
- The "pear-shaped" bladder.
- Triffo WJ1, Dyer RB.
- Abdominal imaging.Abdom Imaging.2015 Jun 24. [Epub ahead of print]
- PMID 26105521
Japanese Journal
- GIST との鑑別が困難であった十二指腸に発生した紡錘細胞型カルチノイド腫瘍の 1 例
- 日野 寛子,畠 榮,高須賀 博久,成富 真理,物部 泰昌
- 日本臨床細胞学会雑誌 53(5), 383-389, 2014
- 背景 : 胃腸管間質腫瘍 (GIST) との鑑別が困難であった十二指腸に発生した紡錘細胞型カルチノイド腫瘍 NET (neuroendocrine tumor) G1 を経験したので, その細胞像を中心に報告する.症例 : 60 歳代, 男性. 空腹時心窩部痛を主訴に他院を受診. 内視鏡検査で上十二指腸角に約 20×10 mm 大の西洋梨状の隆起性病変を認め, 当院内科を紹介された. 超音波内視鏡 …
- NAID 130004706141
- コントロール不良なてんかんを持つ反復性肩関節前方脱臼の1例<BR>-Remplissage 法の有効性-
- 後藤 実,西田 淳,亀井 陽一,嶋村 正
- 肩関節 37(2), 863-867, 2013
- … Computed tomography and magnetic resonance arthrography showed an inverted pear shaped glenoid representing a Bankart lesion with approximately 20% bone loss. …
- NAID 130003393635
- 外村 中
- 人文学報 (103), 1-43, 2013
- … It might have been a four-stringed short straight neck lute with a pear-shaped body (Fig. 4) with old characteristics of the Greek and Roman lutes. …
- NAID 120005466747
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- pear-shapedとは。意味や和訳。[形]1 〈物が〉西洋ナシ形の;〈人が〉下ぶくれの体形の. 2 〈声調が〉まろやかで豊かな.go pear-shapedだめになる, まずいことになる.▽球形で あるべきものが西洋ナシのような形になることから. - goo辞書は国語、英和、和英、 ...
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