equipとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈkwɪp/
• 韻: -ɪp
• ハイフネーション: equip

動詞

equip (third-person singular simple present equips, present participle equipping, simple past equipped, past participle equipped or (古風な用法) equipt)

1. (transitive) To supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task; to provide with (e.g. weapons, provisions, munitions, rigging)
   • 2020 February 13, Roland Oliphant, “'I have lost four years of my life': the desperate migrants stuck in squalid Libyan camps”, in The Telegraph‎^[1]:

     More than 40,000 would-be migrants to Europe have been intercepted at sea since Italy began paying and equipping the Libyan coastguard to do so in 2017.

   • 1921, Rafael Sabatini, In Destiny's Clutch

     it is no more than proper that you should equip us with a vessel in which to pursue the journey which you interrupted

   • 1916, "Indicator Tells Pursuing Police Speed of Automobile" in Popular Science Monthly/Volume 88

     A semicircular plate, with the numbers in multiples of five up to thirty miles an hour, is equipped with a pointer, which indicates accurately the speed of the car.

   • 1698-1699, Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs

     Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet.

2. (transitive) To dress up; to array; to clothe.
   • 1711 July 13 (Gregorian calendar)​, Joseph Addison; Richard Steele [et al.], “MONDAY, July 2, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 129; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697:

     The country are led astray in following the town, and equipped in a ridiculous habit, when they fancy themselves in the height of the mode.

3. (transitive) To prepare (someone) with a skill.
4. (transitive, gaming) To equip oneself with (an item); to bring (equipment) into active use.
   • 2002, Prima Temp Authors, PlayStation 2: Hot Strategies for Cool Games (page 69)

     Take it down from a distance with a magic spell, or equip your sword and attack it at close range.

同意語

• (to supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action または task): apparel, dight, fit out, kit out
• (to dress up): don, dress, put on; see also Thesaurus:clothe

派生語

• bind on equip
• re-equip, reequip

関連する語

• equipment
• equipage

参照

equip in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

アナグラム

• pequi, pique, piqué

Usage note

This is the customary abbreviation of this term as used in case citations. See, e.g., The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, Nineteenth Edition (2010), "Case Names and Institutional Authors in Citations", Table T6, p. 430-431.