mendとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /mɛnd/
  • 韻: -ɛnd

名詞

mend (複数形 mends)

1. A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending.
2. The act of repairing.

   My trousers have a big rip in them and need a mend.

派生語

• on the mend

動詞

mend (三人称単数 現在形 mends, 現在分詞 mending, 過去形および過去分詞形 mended)

1. (transitive) To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement.

   My trousers have a big rip in them and need mending.

   When your car breaks down, you can take it to the garage to have it mended.

2. (transitive) To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.

   Her stutter was mended by a speech therapist.

   My broken heart was mended.

   • 1685, William Temple, Of Gardens

     [they] therefore thought all the Service they could do to the State they live under , was to mend the Lives and Manners of particular Men that composed it

3. (transitive) To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
   • 1707, John Mortimer, The whole Art of Husbandry, in the way of Managing and Improving of Land

     Though in some lands the grass is but short, yet it […] mends garden herbs and fruit.

   • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act 1, scene 1]:

     You mend the jewel by the wearing it.

   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

     But my lord was angry, and being disguised with liquor too, he would not let him go till they played more; and play they did, and the luck still went the same way; and my lord grew fierce over it, and cursed and drank, and that did not mend his luck you may be sure […]

4. (intransitive) To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.

派生語

• least said, soonest mended
• mend one's pace

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:repair

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