beginとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /bɪˈɡɪn/, /bəˈɡɪn/, /biˈɡɪn/
• 韻: -ɪn

動詞

begin (三人称単数 現在形 begins, 現在分詞 beginning, 過去形 began, 過去分詞 begun)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.

   I began playing the piano at the age of five.   Now that everyone is here, we should begin the presentation.

   • a. 1705, John Locke, “An Examination of P[ère] Malebranche’s Opinion of Seeing All Things in God”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, →OCLC, paragraph 41, page 175:

     The Apoſtle begins our Knowledge in the Creatures, which lead us to the Knowledge of God, if we will make uſe of our Reaſon: [...]

   • 1712 (date written)​, Alexander Pope, “Messiah. A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil’s Pollio.”, in The Works of Alexander Pope Esq. […], London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton, H. Lintot, J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, and S. Draper, published 1751, →OCLC, lines 1–2, page 37:

     Ye Nymphs of Solyma! begin the ſong: / To heav'nly themes ſublimer ſtrains belong.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 48:

     Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.

   • 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:

     Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.

2. (intransitive) To be in the first stage of some situation

   The program begins at 9 o'clock on the dot.    I rushed to get to class on time, but the lesson had already begun.

3. (intransitive) To come into existence.
   • 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:

     Vast chain of being! which from God began.

同意語

• commence
• initiate
• start

派生語

名詞

begin (複数形 begins)

1. (nonstandard) Beginning; start.

参照

• “begin”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• begin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

アナグラム

• Bengi, being, beïng, binge