imagineとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈmædʒ.ɪn/
• ハイフネーション: imag‧ine

動詞

imagine (三人称単数 現在形 imagines, 現在分詞 imagining, 過去形および過去分詞形 imagined)

1. (transitive) to form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
   • Shakespeare

     In the night, imagining some fear, / How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

   • 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:

     Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

   Try to imagine a pink elephant.

2. (transitive) to believe in something created by one's own mind

   She imagined that the man wanted to kill her.

3. (transitive) to assume

   I imagine that he will need to rest after such a long flight.

4. (transitive) to conjecture or guess

   I cannot even imagine what you are up to!

   The board imagines the merger will increase profits by 25%

5. (intransitive) to use one's imagination

   Imagine that we were siblings.

6. (transitive, obsolete) to contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise
   • Bible, Psalms lxii. 3

     How long will ye imagine mischief against a man?

使用する際の注意点

• This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs

同意語

• ween

派生語

関連する語

Latin

名詞

imāgine

1. ablative singular of imāgō