penetrateとは

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛnɪtɹeɪt/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛnɪˌtɹeɪt/, /ˈpɛnəˌtɹeɪt/
• 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.

   • Ray

     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

   • M. Arnold

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

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

4. To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
5. To insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina or anus. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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

penētrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of penētrō