importとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

Noun

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭmʹpôt, IPA: /ˈɪm.pɔːt/
• (General American) enPR: ĭmʹpôrt, IPA: /ˈɪm.pɔɹt/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ĭmʹpōrt, IPA: /ˈɪm.po(ː)ɹt/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /ˈɪm.poət/

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭmpôtʹ, IPA: /ɪmˈpɔːt/
• (General American) enPR: ĭmpôrtʹ, IPA: /ɪmˈpɔɹt/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ĭmpōrtʹ, IPA: /ɪmˈpo(ː)ɹt/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /ɪmˈpoət/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)t

語源 1

From 中期英語 importen, from Old French emporter, importer, from Latin importō (“bring in from abroad, import”, verb), from in (“in, at, on; into”) + portō (“I carry, bear; convey”).

名詞

import (countable and uncountable, plural imports)

1. (countable) Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade.
   • 2025 July 17, John Towfighi, “Copper prices have surged to record highs — and they could jump higher. Here’s why”, in CNN Business‎:

     Trump’s July 8 announcement of a 50% tariff on copper imports beginning August 1 sent prices surging 13% in one day, up to a record high of $5.69 per pound.

2. (uncountable) The practice of importing.
3. (uncountable) Clipping of importance.

   It was a matter of great import.

   • 2023 December 27, Christian Wolmar, “Hope springs eternal for greater use of the Channel Tunnel”, in RAIL, number 999, page 26:

     There is, too, a little mentioned aspect of the tunnel which contributes to its failings. You never see the sea while approaching it from either the British or French side. That takes away from the import of the journey - a historic link between Britain and the continent. Instead, it is just a tunnel.

4. (countable, Philippines) A foreigner playing in a sports league.

同意語

• (the practice of importing): importation
• (significance): importancy, importance, meaning, purport, significance, tenor, weight

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “practice of importing”): export
• (antonym(s) of “something brought in from a foreign country”): export
• insignificance

派生語

動詞

import (third-person singular simple present imports, present participle importing, simple past and past participle imported)

1. (transitive) To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.

   Antonym: export

   Nauru imports foods from Australia because phosphate mining destroyed land for farming.

2. (transitive, computing) To load a file into a software application from another version or system.

   Antonym: export

   How can I import files from older versions of this application?

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:import.

派生語

語源 2

From Italian importare, and French importer, from Latin importō.

動詞

import (third-person singular simple present imports, present participle importing, simple past and past participle imported)

1. (intransitive) To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.
   • 1661, Thomas Salusbury, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     See how much it importeth to learn to take Time by the Fore-Top.

2. (transitive) To be of importance to (someone or something).
   • 1593, Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost:

     This Letter is mistooke: it importeth none here: It is writ to laquenetta.

   • 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):

     If I endure it, what imports it you?

3. (transitive) To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
   • 1762, David Hume, The History of England:

     It imports us to get all the aid and assistance we can.

4. (transitive) To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
   • 1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci:

     It much imports your house That all should be made clear.

5. (transitive) To mean, signify.
   • 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     Every petition […] doth […] always import a multitude of speakers together.

6. (transitive, archaic) To express, to imply.

参照

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “import”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.