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guinea pig

guínea pìg[guínea pìg]

• レベル：社会人必須
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1 《動物》テンジクネズミ(cavy)；((俗に))モルモット：実験用（▼リス科のmarmotとは別種）.

2 実験材料（となる人）.

3 ((英略式))名目上の重役・社長(figurehead).

Ballard Designs Recalls Step Stools Due to Fall Hazard

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.

Name of Product: Ballard Designs "Stafford" step stools

Units: About 2,500

Distributor/Retailer: Ballard Designs, Inc. of Atlanta, Ga.

Hazard: Plastic tabs on the feet of the step stools can cause the stools to be unstable, posing a fall hazard to consumers.

Incidents/Injuries: Ballard Designs has received six reports that the stools were not stable, including two reports of falls resulting in minor injuries.

Description: This recall involves Ballard Designs "Stafford" step stools made of wood painted black or white. "Ballard Designs" is printed on a sticker under the bottom of the step. "Made in China" is printed on the underside bottom of the step stools. Also printed on the underside bottom of the step stools is one of the following five numbers: 100097963, 100099019, 100097230, 100100584 or 100102942. All recalled stools also have four plastic tabs affixed to the feet of the step stool.

Sold at: Ballard Design stores in Florida, Georgia and Ohio, through Ballard Designs catalogs, on www.ballarddesigns.com and www.hsn.com from July 2009 through May 2011 for about $80.

Manufactured in: China

Remedy: Consumers should immediately remove the four plastic tabs from the feet of their step stools. Instructions are available online at www.ballarddesigns.com under the Product Safety page or by contacting Ballard Designs at the number below. Ballard Designs is directly contacting all known purchasers.

Consumer Contact: For more information, contact Ballard Designs toll-free at (888) 606-2627 between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. ET Monday through Friday and between 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. ET Saturday and Sunday or visit the firm's website at www.ballarddesigns.com

tab

(tăb)
n.

1. A projection, flap, or short strip attached to an object to facilitate opening, handling, or identification.
2. A small, usually decorative flap or tongue on a garment.
3. A small auxiliary airfoil that is attached to a larger one and that helps stabilize an aircraft.
4. A pull-tab.

tr.v., tabbed, tab·bing, tabs.
To supply with a tab or tabs.

[Origin unknown.]

tab² (tăb)
n.

1. Informal.
   1. A bill or check, such as one for a meal in a restaurant.
   2. Cost; price: The tab for upgrading the computers would be high.
2. A tabulator on a typewriter.
3. Computer Science.
   1. A key on a computer keyboard that, when pressed, inserts a special ASCII character used for formatting text, as in indenting a line or block of text.
   2. This special ASCII character.

intr.v., tabbed, tab·bing, tabs.
To press the tab on a typewriter or computer keyboard: Tab over to the next column.

idiom:

keep tabs on Informal.

1. To observe carefully: Let's keep tabs on expenditures.

[Short for TABLET or TABULATION. Sense 2, short for TABULATOR.]

[名]

1 （衣服などの）たれ（飾り）, つまみ, （靴などの）ひもの金具［輪］.

2 つけ札, ラベル；（車のナンバープレートの）年度表示などのラベル.

3 ((略式))勘定（書）；つけ

run a tab
（買い物を）つけにする

Put it on my tab.
（レストランなどで）私のつけにしておいください.

4 《コンピュータ》タブ.

5 《演劇》小型の下げ幕；引き幕（のつり輪）.

6 ((米))（缶などの）あけ口の引き手, タブ（((英))ring-pull）.

7 《航空》タブ：昇降舵(だ)などの後縁にある可動翼片.

8 （書類・帳簿などの索引の）耳, つまみ.

9 《英国軍》（参謀将校の）色つきえり章.

keep tabs ［((時に))a tab］ on ...

((略式))
(1) …を帳簿につけておく, …の勘定をする；…をきちんと把握しておく.
(2) …に注意する, 監視する.

pick up the tab

(1) （…の）勘定［つけ］を払う((for ...)).
(2) 問題と進んで取り組む.

━━[動]（〜bed, 〜・bing）(他)

1 …につまみ［たれ］をつける.

2 …を（…と）呼ぶ((as ...))；…に札をつける, レッテルをはる.

3 ((略式))…を選び出す.