penetrateとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛnɪtɹeɪt/
• ハイフネーション: pen‧e‧trate

動詞

penetrate (三人称単数 現在形 penetrates, 現在分詞 penetrating, 過去形および過去分詞形 penetrated)

1. To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.

   Light penetrates darkness.

   • 1879, Th Du Moncel, The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph, Harper, page 166:

     He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.

2. (figuratively) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.

   I could not penetrate Burke's opaque rhetoric.

   • 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], OCLC 1179804186:

     things which here were […] too subtile for us to penetrate

3. To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.

   to penetrate one's heart with pity

   • 1867, Matthew Arnold, On the Study of Celtic Literature

     The translator of Homer should penetrate himself with a sense of the plainness and directness of Homer's style.

   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, 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 II, scene iii]:

     I am advised to give her music o' mornings; they say it will penetrate

4. To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
5. To insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina or anus.

   a male elephant comes up and penetrates the female

6. (chess) To move a piece past the defending pieces of one's opponent.

派生語

• penetration
• penetrable