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発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpjʊə/, /ˈpjɔː/
• (米国用法) IPA^(key): /ˈpjʊɹ/, /ˈpjoɹ/, /ˈpjɚ/
• (cure–nurse merger, rhotic) IPA^(key): /ˈpjɝ/
• (cure–nurse merger, non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /ˈpjɜː/
• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)

形容詞

pure (comparative purer または more pure, superlative purest または most pure)

1. Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 7, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records.

3. Free of foreign material or pollutants.
   • 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC:

     A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy.

4. Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
   • c. 1530, William Tyndale (translator), Bible, 1 Timothy, 5:22,

     Laye hondes sodely^[suddenly] on no man nether be partaker of other mes^[men's] synnes: kepe thy silfe pure.

5. Mere; that and that only.

   That idea is pure madness!

6. (of a branch of science) Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.
   • 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:

     The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.

7. (phonetics) Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
8. (of sound) Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.
9. (Bermuda, slang) A lot of.
   • 2013 April 12, “Exclusive: Meet Derpuntae - Bermuda's first meme”, in The Bermuda Sun‎^[1], archived from the original on 2022-12-12:

     Well when ah's youngah, ah'd just light a candle rahn de dinna table play pure crazy 8s and spades vif my brotha til we lot dozed off...

同意語

• (free of flaws): see Thesaurus:pure
• (free of foreign material): see Thesaurus:raw
• (free of immoral behavior): innocent

反意語

• (free of flaws): dirty, flawed, impure
• (free of foreign material): contaminated, impure
• (free of immoral behavior): corrupt, guilty, sinful
• (done for its own sake): applied

派生語

• pure finder
• as pure as the driven snow

関連する語

派生した語

• → Welsh: piwr

副詞

pure (not comparable)

1. (Liverpudlian, Scotland) to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.

   You’re pure busy.

   • 1996, Trainspotting (film)

     I just get pure shy with the interview cats.

動詞

pure (三人称単数 現在形 pures, 現在分詞 puring, 過去形および過去分詞形 pured)

1. (golf) to hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately

   Tiger Woods pured his first drive straight down the middle of the fairway.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To cleanse; to refine.

名詞

pure (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 pures)

1. One who, or that which, is pure.
   • 1845, The Lancet, page 187:

     ... the establishment of an inferior College, and the consequent connexion of the many thousands of British practitioners in medicine and surgery with a subordinate institution, and one that should be subservient to the government of the pures.

   • c. 1870, D. K. Gavan, Rocky Road to Dublin:

     Took a drop of the pure, to keep my spirits from sinking, […]

   • 1998, Christopher Leigh Connery, The Empire of the Text: Writing and Authority in Early Imperial China, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 30:

     All interpretive frames will impose their categories on the object of historical analysis, and I am not proposing that this narrative of the "pures"; be rejected in favor of some phantasmatic framework that claims to derive more purely from the sources themselves. I will show in chapter 3 that, since the "pures" possibly did not even exist […]

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /pjʊə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pjʊɹ/
• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)

名詞

pure (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of puer (“dung (e.g. of dogs)”)
   • 1851, H. Mayhew, London Labour and the London poor, vII. 142/1:

     […] Dogs'-dung is called ‘Pure’, from its cleansing and purifying properties.

   • 2001, Wendy Lawton, chapter 8, in The Tinker's Daughter:

     Mary smelled the rancid odor of the tannery on the right side of the road. […]
     "What is that, Mary?" Jake asked.
     "'Tis a bag for collecting pure. That is going to be your job, Jake. You are to collect pure."
     "Pure? What is pure?"
     "Pure is another word for dung," Mary answered.

   • 2013, Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam, page 28:

     […] surely there was something better for him than chasing the pure (footnote: A term, technically speaking, for dog muck, much prized by the tanneries.) […]

Further reading

• pure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “pure”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Peru, Pre-U, Prue, Pu'er, Rupe, pu'er, puer, re-up, reup

Latin

語源 1

From pūrus (“clean; pure”) and -e (“-ly, -ily”).

副詞

pūrē (comparative pūrius, superlative pūrissimē)

1. clearly, brightly, cleanly
2. correctly, faultlessly, perfectly, purely

   Loqui pure.

   To speak correctly.

同意語

• (correctly): ēmendātē

名詞

pūre

1. ablative singular of pūs

参照

• “pure”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pure”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) logic, dialectic: dialectica (-ae または -orum) (pure Latin disserendi ratio et scientia)
    
  • (ambiguous) astronomy: astrologia (pure Latin sidera, caelestia)
    

アナグラム

• puer, rūpe