repairとは

語源 1

Coined between 1300 and 1350 from Middle English repairen, from Middle French reparer, from Latin reparō (“renew, repair”).

動詞

repair (三人称単数 現在形 repairs, 現在分詞 repairing, 過去形および過去分詞形 repaired)

1. To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.

   to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship

   to repair a shattered fortune

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     secret refreshings that repair his strength

   • (Can we date this quote?) William Wordsworth

     Do thou, as thou art wont, repair / My heart with gladness.

2. To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.

   to repair a loss or damage

   • (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare

     I'll repair the misery thou dost bear.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:repair

派生語

• repairable / reparable, repairer

名詞

repair (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 repairs)

1. The act of repairing something.

   I took the car to the workshop for repair.

   • 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:

     One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. […] But out of sight is out of mind. And that […] means that many old sewers have been neglected and are in dire need of repair.

2. The result of repairing something.

   If you look closely you can see the repair in the paintwork.

3. The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.

   The car was overall in poor repair before the accident. But after the workshop had it for three weeks it was returned in excellent repair. But the other vehicle was beyond repair.

派生語

• disrepair

関連する語

• reparation
• reparative

語源 2

From Middle English repairen (“to return”), borrowed from Old French repairier, from Late Latin repatriare (“to return to one's country”), from re- + patria (“homeland”). Cognate to repatriate.

名詞

repair (複数形 repairs)

1. The act of repairing or resorting to a place.

   our annual repair to the mountains

   • (Can we date this quote?) Clarendon

     The king sent a proclamation for their repair to their houses.

2. A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Dryden

     There the fierce winds his tender force assail / And beat him downward to his first repair.

動詞

repair (三人称単数 現在形 repairs, 現在分詞 repairing, 過去形および過去分詞形 repaired)

2. To transfer oneself to another place.

   to repair to sanctuary for safety

   • (Can we date this quote?) Alexander Pope

     Go, mount the winds, and to the shades repair.

   • 1850, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

     I heard the visitors repair to their chambers.

   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803:

     That finished, I repaired to my room, one flight up, and, after a thorough wash, seated myself, pipe in mouth, at the little window that opened on the Rue Garde. I had nothing more exciting on hand than to wait for word from Von Lindowe. I sincerely hoped that it would not be long, for it is not my forte to sit twiddling my thumbs.

派生語

• repatriate

語源 3

From re- +‎ pair.

動詞

repair (三人称単数 現在形 repairs, 現在分詞 repairing, 過去形および過去分詞形 repaired)

1. to pair again

Further reading

• repair in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• repair in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “repair” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “repair” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.

アナグラム

• Rapier, pairer, rapier