rudimentとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹuːdɪmənt/

名詞

rudiment (複数形 rudiments)

1. (often in the plural) A fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning.

   We'll be learning the rudiments of thermodynamics next week.

   • c. 1598–1600, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, 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 V, scene iv]:

     This boy is forest-born, / And hath been tutored in the rudiments / Of many desperate studies.

2. (often in the plural) A form that lacks full or complex development.

   I have the rudiments of an escape plan.

   • 1671, John Milton, Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398:

     But I will bring thee where thou soon shalt quit / Those rudiments, and see before thine eyes / The monarchies of the earth.

   • a. 1865, Isaac Taylor, Ornamentation of Nature

     The single leaf is the rudiment of beauty in landscape.

3. (biology) A body part that no longer has a function
4. (music) In percussion, one of a selection of basic drum patterns learned as an exercise.

上位語

• (biology): vestigiality

派生語

• rudimental
• rudimentary

関連する語

• erudite

Further reading

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

動詞

rudiment (三人称単数 現在形 rudiments, 現在分詞 rudimenting, 過去形および過去分詞形 rudimented)

1. (transitive) To ground; to settle in first principles.

アナグラム

• unmitred