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: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], 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: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

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

   • 1697, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:

     Black vapors, issuing from the vent, involve the sky.

   • a. 1701, John Dryden, “The First Book of Homer’s Ilias”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, OCLC 863244003, page 432:

     Black bulls, and bearded goats on altars lie; / And clouds of ſav'ry ſtench involve the ſky.

3. To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
   • 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], OCLC 153628242:

     the fallacies that are often concealed in florid, witty, or 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; […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), Edinburgh:  […] 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