schemeとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /skiːm/
• 韻: -iːm

名詞

scheme (複数形 schemes)

1. A systematic plan of future action.
   • (Can we date this quote by Jonathan Swift かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

   • 2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):

     A “moving platform” scheme […] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays. This set-up solves several problems […].

2. A plot or secret, devious plan.
3. An orderly combination of related parts.
   • (Can we date this quote by John Locke かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     the appearance and outward scheme of things

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

     such a scheme of things as shall at once take in time and eternity

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

     arguments […] sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy

   • 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 20, in The History of England from the Accession of James II:

     The Revolution came and changed his whole scheme of life.

4. A chart or diagram of a system or object.
   • (Can we date this quote by South かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     to draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of France

5. (mathematics) A type of topological space.
6. (Britain, chiefly Scotland) A council housing estate.
   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 101:

     It was all too dear. They all just put their prices up because it was out in the scheme.

7. (rhetoric) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
8. (astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
   • 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. [...] In Three Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], OCLC 742335644:

     a blue case, from which was drawn a scheme of nativity

9. (Internet) Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.
10. (Britain, pensions) A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.

使用する際の注意点

In the US, generally has devious connotations, while in the UK, frequently used as a neutral term for projects: “The road is closed due to a pavement-widening scheme.”

同意語

• (a systematic plan of future action): blueprint

派生語

• colour scheme
• pilot scheme

動詞

scheme (三人称単数 現在形 schemes, 現在分詞 scheming, 過去形および過去分詞形 schemed)

1. (intransitive) To plot, or contrive a plan.
   • 2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[2]:

     The openly ridiculous plot has The Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) scheming to win the Pirate Of The Year competition, even though he’s a terrible pirate, far outclassed by rivals voiced by Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek.

2. (transitive) To plan; to contrive.
   • 1908, Bohemian Magazine (volume 15, page 381)

     He schemed a plot. He made use of the hotel's stationery to write a letter.

参照

• Silva Rhetoricae

アナグラム

• Meches