implementとは

発音

• enPR: ĭmʹplə-mənt, IPA^(key): /ˈɪmpləmənt/

名詞

implement (複数形 implements)

1. A tool or instrument for working with.

   They carried an assortment of gardening implements in the truck.

   • 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 234:

     A man dreamt as follows: He saw two boys struggling—barrel-maker’s boys, to judge by the implements lying around.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:instrument

語源 2

From Scottish English or Scots implement (“fulfill”)

発音

• enPR: ĭmʹplə-mĕnt, IPA^(key): /ˈɪmpləmɛnt/

動詞

implement (三人称単数 現在形 implements, 現在分詞 implementing, 過去形および過去分詞形 implemented)

1. to bring about; to put into practice

   It’s a good thought, but it will be a difficult thing to implement.

2. to carry out; to do

使用する際の注意点

• Objects: plan, programme, strategy, policy, agreement, order, specification, etc.

派生語

• implementable
• implementation
• implementer

Further reading

• implement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• implement in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911