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発音

• IPA: /ˈdɛkəɹeɪt/
• ハイフネーション: dec‧or‧ate

動詞

decorate (third-person singular simple present decorates, present participle decorating, simple past and past participle decorated)

1. (transitive) To furnish with decorations.

   We decorated the Christmas tree with tinsel and baubles.

2. (ambitransitive) To improve the appearance of an interior of, as a house, room, or office.
   1. (By putting paint or wallpaper on the walls.)

      There's some paint left over from when we decorated the guest bedroom.

      We moved in over a month ago but we still haven't gotten started on decorating.

   2. (By adding adornments to the interior space.)

      People tend to decorate for the holidays or special events.

3. (transitive) To honor by providing a medal, ribbon, or other adornment.

   He was a decorated soldier who served in three wars.

4. (programming, transitive) To extend a method, etc. by attaching some further code item.

   It makes sure that the field name argument is not empty, and that the field specified there is an actual existing field in the class which declares the method decorated with this attribute.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:decorate

派生語

関連する語

• decoration

語源 2

From 中期英語 decorat (“decorated, adorned”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Originally also used as the past participle of decorate; compare generate or communicate.

形容詞

decorate (comparative more decorate, superlative most decorate)

1. (obsolete, archaic) decorated, adorned

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “decorate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “decorate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• recoated