wantとは

発音

• (英国発音, General New Zealand, General Australian) enPR: wŏnt, IPA^(key): /wɒnt/
• 韻: -ɒnt
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /wɑnt/ also sometimes enPR: wŭnt, wônt, IPA^(key): /wʌnt/, /wɔnt/
• (General New Zealand, non-standard) IPA^(key): /wʌnt/
• (some accents) enPR: wônt, IPA^(key): /wɔːnt/^[1]
• 韻: -ɔːnt
• Homophone: wont

語源

From Middle English wanten (“to lack”), from Old Norse vanta (“to lack”), from Proto-Germanic *wanatōną (“to be wanting, lack”), from *wanô (“lack, deficiency”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty”). Cognate with Middle High German wan (“not full, empty”), Middle Dutch wan (“empty, poor”), 古期英語 wana (“want, lack, absence, deficiency”), Latin vanus (“empty”). See wan, wan-.

動詞

want (三人称単数 現在形 wants, 現在分詞 wanting, 過去形および過去分詞形 wanted)

1. (transitive) To wish for or to desire (something). [from 18th c.]

   What do you want to eat?  I want you to leave.  I never wanted to go back to live with my mother.  I want to be an astronaut when I'm older.  I don't want him to marry Gloria, I want him to marry me!  What do you want from me?  Do you want anything from the shops?

   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 13, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.

   • 2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:

     Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     I want to find a supermarket. — Oh, okay. The supermarket is at 1500 Irving Street. It is near the apartment. — Great!

2. (intransitive, now dated) To be lacking or deficient; not to exist. [from 13th c.]

   There was something wanting in the play.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Dryden

     The disposition, the manners, and the thoughts are all before it; where any of those are wanting or imperfect, so much wants or is imperfect in the imitation of human life.

3. (transitive) To lack, not to have (something). [from 13th c.]
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 3, member 7:

     he that hath skill to be a pilot wants a ship; and he that could govern a commonwealth […] wants means to exercise his worth, hath not a poor office to manage.

   • (Can we date this quote?) James Merrick

     Not what we wish, but what we want, / Oh, let thy grace supply!

   • (Can we date this quote?) Addison

     I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it.

4. (transitive, colloquially with verbal noun as object) To be in need of; to require (something). [from 15th c.]
   • 1866, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 7:

     “Your hair wants cutting,” said the Hatter. He had been looking at Alice for some time with great curiosity, and this was his first speech.

   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Chapter 2:

     The mowing-machine always wanted oiling. Barnet turned it under Jacob's window, and it creaked—creaked, and rattled across the lawn and creaked again.

   That chair wants fixing.

5. (intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Ben Jonson

     You have a gift, sir (thank your education), / Will never let you want.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Alexander Pope

     For as in bodies, thus in souls, we find / What wants in blood and spirits, swelled with wind.

使用する際の注意点

• This is a catenative verb. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

同意語

• (desire): set one's heart on, wish for, would like
• (lack): be without
• (require): need, be in need of

派生語

名詞

want (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 wants)

1. (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
2. (countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence.
   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, King Henry VI Part 2, act 4, sc. 8:

     [H]eavens and honour be witness, that no want of resolution in me, but only my followers' base and ignominious treasons, makes me betake me to my heels.

   • (Can we date this quote?) For Want of a Nail:

     For want of a nail the shoe was lost.

     For want of a shoe the horse was lost.

     For want of a horse the rider was lost.

     For want of a rider the battle was lost.

     For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.

     And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

3. (uncountable) Poverty.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Jonathan Swift

     Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.

4. Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Paley

     Habitual superfluities become actual wants.

5. (Britain, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.

派生語

• want ad
• wantful
• wantless
• wantsome
• wanty

参照

• want at OneLook Dictionary Search

アナグラム

• tawn

アナグラム

• tawn

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: wŏnt, IPA^(key): /wɒnt/

動詞

wan't (三人称単数 現在形 wan'ts, 現在分詞 wan'ting, 過去形および過去分詞形 wan'ted)

1. Misspelling of want.
   • 2007: “dldege”, Drupal: Can a .theme get the $node it's on?, “Not sure where you are”, the 30^th day of January at 7:41pm

     Not sure where you are wan'ting access to the node.

   • 2009: “Gregg B”, rec.games.pinball (Google group): Tech, Pinball pool, the 7^th day of May at 3:13pm

     Not sure if this applies to the factory CPU, but if you're using a Pascal board, I'm pretty sure it wan'ts to see the coils fire as part of the POST.

   • 2009: “Edvard Pitka”, nhusers (Google group): How to map Property I don't want setter for., the 8^th day of May at 2:45pm

     You either have persistable attribute in your entity or you don't. […] If you don't wan't to expose it to the outside world you make it private.

語源 2

Misspelt possibly by pronunciatory disanalogy with wonder–wander — whose first syllables are pronounced, respectively, wŭn and wŏn — the latter being closer to the pronunciation of won't: wōnt.

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: wōnt, IPA^(key): /wəʊnt/

動詞

wan't

1. Misspelling of won't.
   • 2009: “Misiosława I Kwiecień”, SU Paris 2009 (Google group): Presentation !, the 23^rd day of May at 4:58pm

     If i would be locked for the night in the 3rd floor of Eiffel Tower, it wan't be because i was late but because it was a nice plan for the night and I am not alone so I would have a lot of fun :)