He istとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /haɪst/
• 韻: -aɪst
• ハイフネーション: heist

名詞

heist (countable and uncountable, plural heists)

1. A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.
   • 2014 August 21, “A brazen heist in Paris [print version: International New York Times, 22 August 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 17 December 2020:

     The audacious hijacking in Paris of a van carrying the baggage of a Saudi prince to his private jet is obviously an embarrassment to the French capital, whose ultra-high-end boutiques have suffered a spate of heists in recent months.

   • 2020 April 12, Simon Tisdall, “US's global reputation hits rock-bottom over Trump's coronavirus response”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 27 April 2022:

     The furious reaction in Germany after 200,000 protective masks destined for Berlin mysteriously went missing in Thailand and were allegedly redirected to the US is a case in point. There is no solid proof Trump approved the heist. But it’s the sort of thing he would do – or so people believe.

   • 2025 October 20, Jacqui Palumbo, Caitlin Danaher, “Museum heists have changed. Why the Louvre robbery is a worrying escalation”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 9 December 2025:

     In 1990, at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, two men dressed as police officers pulled off the largest art heist in history, with 13 artworks, including three Rembrandts, and a Vermeer, that have never been found.

2. (countable, uncountable) A fiction genre in which a heist is central to the plot; a work in such a genre.
   • 2002, Theatre Record, volume 22, numbers 10-18, page 1177:

     It is a conventional heist play in which the drama is created less through the characters' actions than through the fact of one of them having a gun.

   • 2008 March 6, Robert Wilonsky, “Fast and Loose”, in Riverfront Times, volume 32, number 10, page 28:

     The Bank Job is also the first proper Jason Statham movie since his days banging about in Guy Ritchie's early heists.

   • 2014, Daryl Lee, The Heist Film: Stealing With Style, page 69:

     The crew resemble typical heist characters[.]

派生語

動詞

heist (third-person singular simple present heists, present participle heisting, simple past and past participle heisted)

1. (transitive) To steal, rob, or hold up (something).

派生語

• heister

Further reading

• heist on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• shite, Thiès, shiet, Heits, Hites, sheit, Sethi, sithe, seith, Thies