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.

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     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

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

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

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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 elephant

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

派生語

• penetration
• penetrable

Further reading

• penetrate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• penetrate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• penetrate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latin

動詞

penetrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of penetrō