rapt, fluff, fluffy, rapture, enraptured, breech, watercolor

Does this look like a familiar scene to you? A fluffy shadow following you as you go about your day-to-day. ⁠

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This watercolour was painted by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale in 1915 as an illustration to 'The Wish' by Abraham Cowley. It beautifully captures an idyllic day in early summer. ⁠

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Illustration to 'The Wish' by Abraham Cowley, Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872 - 1945), 1915. WA1965.52.2

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The climate disappointed me, but, though I found the country a study rather than a rapture, its interest exceeded my largest expectations.



 The reputation of Ozu only grows with the years. Every time his movies are shown on television or at film festivals, more people find themselves enraptured by his delicate watercolour emotions, his mastery of simplicity and reticence, in which you glimpse explicit pain and joy.



The answer would seem to reveal a lot about the prime minister, a man who seems prepared to take his party down in flames in order to do what he considers to be the right thing. Many within the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) have urged him to cling to power for as long as possible, hoping that Mr Abe, who fluffed the job of prime minister from 2006-07, will stumble again in the meantime.



My choice is probably influenced by the fact that my background is in management, not quality. Seddon's fluff-free approach appeals to the busy manager, intolerant of fads and fashions and impenetrable textbooks, who wants to get on with improving the business via reduced costs and improved levels of service. Ordinary managers can understand what he is on about.

"Up In Mabel's Room" is based on a stage play of the same name. Dennis O'Keefe, Marjorie Reynolds & Gail Patrick star in this bit of fluff.

Avoiding fluff is the surest route to success

Camping Picks New Rapture Date of Oct. 21

California preacher says May 21 was only “an invisible judgment day.”

The piece is pure fluff, utterly forgettable, but everybody listened in rapt silence. Even what you might call, substance-wise, the musical version of Chopin’s ghost stirs Polish pride.


Obama Delivers Call for Change to a Rapt Africa
By PETER BAKER
President Obama traveled in Africa as a potent symbol of a new era but also as a messenger with a theme of responsibility.



LIBERALS have long lamented that, despite much stirring rhetoric about the mother of parliaments and Magna Carta, modern Britons have little real interest in their hard-won liberties. On June 17th, as Gordon Brown gave a speech on the subject, that pessimism seemed confirmed when one rapt listener fell asleep in the middle of the prime minister's oration.

Civil liberties erosion

  

watercolor

  音節 wáter • còlor, ((英))-our

watercolorの変化形

watercolors (複数形)

watercolorの慣用句

watercolorist, （全1件）

[名]

1 ((通例〜s))水彩絵の具.

2 [U][C]水彩画（法）.

wáter・còlor・ist

[名]水彩画家.

  

fluff
n.

1. Light down or fuzz, as on a young bird or on a dandelion or milkweed seed.
2. Something having a very light, soft, or frothy consistency or appearance: a fluff of meringue; a fluff of cloud.
3. Something of little substance or consequence, especially:
   1. Light or superficial entertainment: The movie was just another bit of fluff from Hollywood.
   2. Inflated or padded material: The report was mostly fluff, with little new information.
4. The parts of a junked car that are not metal and cannot be recycled.
5. Informal. An error, especially in the delivery of lines, as by an actor or announcer.

v., fluffed, fluff·ing, fluffs. v.tr.

1. To make fluffy: fluff a pillow; a squirrel fluffing out its tail.
2. Informal.
   1. To ruin or mar by a mistake or blunder: They fluffed their chance to participate in the playoffs by losing their last three games.
   2. To forget or botch (one's lines).

v.intr.

1. To become fluffy.
2. Informal. To make an error, especially to forget or botch one's lines.

[Origin unknown.]

[名]

1 [U]綿毛；軟毛；うぶ毛；薄ひげ；（ラシャなどの）けば；((主に英))（衣類などの）綿ぼこり；[C]（綿毛のように）軽くふわふわした物

a fluff of cotton
一切れの脱脂綿.

2 軽薄でつまらない物；((米俗))やさしい仕事［任務］.

3 ((略式))（演奏・試合での）へま, （役者・話者の）とちり, 言いそこない

make a fluff
言いそこなう.

4 ((the 〜))((米略式))拒絶；解雇

give a person the fluff
人を拒否［解雇］する.

━━[動](他)

1 〈毛髪・枕(まくら)などを〉ふわふわにふくらませる；けば立てる；〈鳥が〉〈羽毛を〉ふくらませる((up, out))

fluff out a pillow
枕をふくらます

fluff out its feathers
（鳥が）羽毛を立てる.

2 ((略式))〈言葉・せりふを〉とちる；〈試験などに〉失敗する.

3 ((米略式))〈人を〉激しく非難する.

━━(自)

1 綿毛状になる；けば立つ；（綿毛のように）ふわっと動く.

2 ((略式))誤る；〈役者などが〉とちる.

fluff ... off/fluff off ...

((米俗))〈人を〉軽視する；解雇する.

fluffy
adj., -i·er, -i·est.

1. 1. Of, relating to, or resembling fluff.
   2. Covered with fluff.
2. Light and airy; soft: fluffy curls; a fluffy soufflé.
3. 1. Light or frivolous: a fluffy musical comedy.
   2. Lacking depth or precision; fuzzy: hazy, fluffy thinking that only confused the matter.

fluffily fluff'i·ly adv.
fluffiness fluff'i·ness n.

rapt
adjective
1 giving complete attention, or showing complete involvement, or (of attention) complete:
She sat with a rapt expression reading her book.
The children watched with rapt attention.

2 AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH INFORMAL wrapped (= extremely happy or excited)

rapt
 v.
Past participle of rap² (sense 1).
adj.

1. Deeply moved or delighted; enraptured: listened to the speaker with rapt admiration.
2. Deeply absorbed; engrossed: was rapt in thought all evening.

[Middle English, carried away, from Latin raptus, past participle of rapere, to seize.]

enraptured

  音節

en • rap • tured

発音

inrǽptʃərd

[形]((形式))（…に）うっとりした, 大喜びした, 有頂天になった((at, by ...))

be enraptured by ［with］ ...
…にうっとりとなる.

en・rap・tured・ly

[副]

rapture

(răp'chər)
n.

1. The state of being transported by a lofty emotion; ecstasy.
2. An expression of ecstatic feeling. Often used in the plural.
3. The transporting of a person from one place to another, especially to heaven.

tr.v., -tured, -tur·ing, -tures.
To enrapture.

[Obsolete French, abduction, carrying off, from rapt, carried away, from Old French rat, from Latin raptus. See rapt.]

[名][U]((しばしば〜s))狂喜, 大喜び, 有頂天（▼ecstasyは宗教などによる恍惚(こうこつ)状態）；狂喜の言葉［表現, 声, 叫び］. ⇒PLEASURE[類語]

be in raptures
有頂天になっている

go ［fall］ into raptures with ［over, at, about］ the sight
その光景にうっとりとする.

━━[動](他)((文))…を有頂天にする.

rapture

Pronunciation: /ˈraptʃə/

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noun

• 1 [mass noun] a feeling of intense pleasure or joy:Leonora listened with rapture
• (raptures) expressions of intense pleasure or enthusiasm about something:the tabloids went into raptures about her

• 2 (the Rapture) North American (according to some millenarian teaching) the transporting of believers to heaven at the Second Coming of Christ: thousands of Christians gathered outside Rochester and other cities, awaiting the Rapture

verb

[with object] North American

• (according to some millenarian teaching) transport (a believer) from earth to heaven at the Second Coming of Christ: people will be raptured out of automobiles as they are driving along

Phrases

rapture of the deep

informal nitrogen narcosis.

Origin:

late 16th century (in the sense 'seizing and carrying off'): from obsolete French, or from medieval Latin raptura 'seizing', partly influenced by rapt

britch
Vernacular for breech.


breech (brēch)
n.

1. The lower rear portion of the human trunk; the buttocks.
2. 1. A breech presentation or delivery.
   2. A fetus in breech presentation.
3. breeches
   1. Knee breeches.
   2. Informal. Trousers.
4. The part of a firearm behind the barrel.
5. The lower part of a pulley block.

[Middle English brech, from Old English brēc, pl. of brōc, leg covering, akin to Gaulish brāca, hose, trousers.]