involveとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin involvō.

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɒlv/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɑlv/
• ハイフネーション: in‧volve

動詞

involve (三人称単数 現在形 involves, 現在分詞 involving, 過去形および過去分詞形 involved)

1. (archaic) To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     Some of serpent kind […] involved
     Their snaky folds.

2. (archaic) To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide.

   to involve in darkness or obscurity

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     And leave a singèd bottom all involved / With stench and smoke.

   • (Can we date this quote by Dryden かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     Clouds of savoury stench involve the sky.

3. To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
   • (Can we date this quote by John Locke かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     Involved discourses.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     The face which emerged was not reassuring. […] He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.

4. (archaic) To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost Book II

     He knows / His end with mine involved.

   • a. 1694, John Tillotson, Sermon

     The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction.

   • 2013 July-August, Sarah Glaz, “Ode to Prime Numbers”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:

     Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.

5. To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
   • 1728-1743, Alexander Pope, The Dunciad

     The gathering number, as it moves along,
     Involves a vast involuntary throng.

   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost Book II

     Earth with hell / To mingle and involve.

6. To envelop, enfold, entangle.

   to involve a person in debt or misery

   He's involved in the crime.

7. To engage (someone) to participate in a task.

   How can we involve the audience more during the show?

   By getting involved in her local community, Mary met lots of people and also helped make it a nicer place to live.

   • 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. In Three Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, OCLC 270129598:

     Involved in a deep study.

8. (mathematics) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times.

   a quantity involved to the third or fourth power

同意語

• imply
• include
• implicate
• complicate
• entangle
• embarrass
• overwhelm

参考

• involver
• voluble
• involute

参照

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

Latin

動詞

involve

1. second-person singular present active imperative of involvō