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解説 Definition
（主にスコットランド英語）石炭・鉱石・頁岩・鉱山廃石などを積み上げた山、堆積。地域的または歴史的な用法では、そうした物を保管する場所も指す。
In chiefly Scottish usage, a heap or pile of material, especially coal, ore, shale, or waste produced by mining. The word may also refer to a storage place or compartment for such material in certain regional or historical contexts.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
bing は主にスコットランド英語で、鉱石・石炭・廃石などを積み上げた「山、堆積」を指す地域語。古ノルド語 bingr「山・積み重ね」にさかのぼるので、coal bing や shale bing のように、ばらばらの物が一か所に大量に積まれた景観と結び付ける。一般英語の bin「収納箱」と混同しない。
Remember bing as a chiefly Scottish regional word for a large heap of material, not as the ordinary English word bin. Picture a coal bing or shale bing beside a mine: loose material has accumulated into a visible mound. Its Old Norse background also carried the idea of a heap or pile, so the historical form supports the modern meaning. Bin is the common word for a container, while bing is most useful when reading Scottish descriptions of mining, industrial landscapes, or older storage practices.
例文
Grass now covers the old shale bing beside the mine.
今では鉱山のそばにある古い頁岩の廃石の山を草が覆っている。
The miners tipped waste rock onto the bing.
鉱員たちは廃石をその堆積の山に投棄した。
A large coal bing once stood behind the engine house.
かつて機関棟の裏には大きな石炭の山があった。
bing の類義語・関連語
bing の語源・成り立ち Etymology
bing は中英語 bing を経て古ノルド語 bingr「山・積み上げ」にさかのぼる語です。関連語に bin があり、物を積む山やしまっておく箱の感覚から、「ためておくもの」という芯の意味が見えてきます。
Bing is recorded in Middle English and Scots and is traced to Old Norse bingr, meaning a heap or pile. The word became especially associated in Scotland with piles of coal, ore, shale, or mining refuse, as well as places where such materials were stored. It is historically related in sense and possibly development to bin, although modern standard English uses bin mainly for a container and preserves bing chiefly as a Scottish regional term.
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