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Medical - Medical (general) / A medical product description | | Japanese term or phrase: シートのはがれ・浮き・つっぱりが少なく、温熱を伝えます。 | This is from this page: http://www.kenko.com/product/item/itm_6901607672.html
It is a description of a medical product in form of hot sheets, which when applied on shoulders helps to alleviate shoulder strain.
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What does つっぱり mean here? |
| | | つっぱり | Explanation:
In the context, there are 3 things the sheet doesn't do.
1) come loose (from the edges)
2) get air pockets (not adhere perfectly so the interior bubbles up or gets wrinkles)
and
3) つっぱり - getting stiff or taut.
I think this should be taken as the opposite case of 浮き, where imperfect adherence causes some parts of the sheet to feel too taut. Since the sheets are going on one's shoulders, you can imagine getting wrinkles around the edges or it being too tight at the peak of the shoulder. It's that tightness from trying to pull flat on an uneven surface, I'd say.
So, if 浮き is "wrinkles" maybe つっぱり should be "tightness" or even "constriction" |
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Explanation:
In the context, there are 3 things the sheet doesn't do.
1) come loose (from the edges)
2) get air pockets (not adhere perfectly so the interior bubbles up or gets wrinkles)
and
3) つっぱり - getting stiff or taut.
I think this should be taken as the opposite case of 浮き, where imperfect adherence causes some parts of the sheet to feel too taut. Since the sheets are going on one's shoulders, you can imagine getting wrinkles around the edges or it being too tight at the peak of the shoulder. It's that tightness from trying to pull flat on an uneven surface, I'd say.
So, if 浮き is "wrinkles" maybe つっぱり should be "tightness" or even "constriction"
Reference: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1E
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