compriseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /kəmˈpɹaɪz/
• 韻: -aɪz

動詞

comprise (三人称単数 現在形 comprises, 現在分詞 comprising, 過去形および過去分詞形 comprised)

1. (transitive) To be made up of; to consist of (especially a comprehensive list of parts).^{[usage 1]} [from the earlier 15th c.]

   The whole comprises the parts.

   The parts are comprised by the whole.

   • 2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1-0 Everton”, in BBC Sport:

     Arsenal were playing without a recognised full-back - their defence comprising four centre-halves - and the lack of width was hindering their progress.

2. (sometimes proscribed, usually in the passive) To compose; to constitute.^{[usage 2][usage 3]} [from the late 18th c.]

   The whole is comprised of the parts.

   The parts comprise the whole.

   • 1657, Isaac Barrow, Data (Euclid) (translation), Prop. XXX

     "Seeing then the angles comprised of equal right lines are equal, we have found the angle FDE equal to the angle ABC."

   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter I, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384:

     Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.

3. To contain or embrace. [from the earlier 15th c.]

   Our committee comprises a president, secretary, treasurer and five other members.

4. (patent law) To include, contain, or be made up of, defining the minimum elements, whether essential or inessential to define an invention.^{[usage 4]}

   Coordinate term: compose (close-ended)

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同意語

• (to compose): form, make up; see also Thesaurus:compose

関連する語

• comprehensive