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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /pɹəˈpəʊz/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /pɹəˈpoʊz/
• (California) IPA: /pɹəˈpoʊz/, (California Vowel Shift) [pɹəˈpəʊz]
• (General Australian) IPA: /pɹəˈpəʉz/
• (New Zealand) IPA: [pɹəˈpɐʉz]
• 韻: -əʊz

動詞

propose (third-person singular simple present proposes, present participle proposing, simple past and past participle proposed)

1. (transitive) To suggest a plan, course of action, etc.

   Synonyms: put forth, suggest, (rare) project, forthput

   I propose going to see a film.

   to propose an alliance

   to propose a question for discussion

   • 2017 May 23, Gregory Krieg and Will Mullery, “Trump’s budget by the numbers: What gets cut and why”, in CNN‎:

     “The Budget proposes eliminating Supporting Effective Instruction (SEI) State Grants (Title II State grants), a program that provides formula funds to States to improve the quality and effectiveness of teachers, principals, and other schools leaders. SEI grants are poorly targeted and funds are spread too thinly to have a meaningful impact on student outcomes.

   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     President Moon Jae-in proposed the plan this week during a meeting with government officials, his spokesman said.

2. (intransitive, sometimes followed by to) To ask for a person's hand in marriage.

   He proposed to her last night and she accepted him.

   • 1960 March, N. Caplan, “The Railway Member of Parliament”, in Railway Magazine, page 208:

     After the death of his [Verney's] first wife, he proposed to Florence Nightingale but she refused him. Later he married her sister, and for many years Claydon was Miss Nightingale's second home.

3. (transitive) To intend.

   He proposes to set up his own business.

   • 1859, John Gorham Palfrey, History of New England, Preface (Google preview):

     I propose to relate, in several volumes, the history of the people of New England.

   • 2013 August 16, John Vidal, “Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 8:

     Many of the proposed dams would be among the tallest in the world.

4. (obsolete) To talk; to converse.
   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

     HERO. Good Margaret, run thee to the parlour;
     There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice
     Proposing with the prince and Claudio

5. (obsolete) To set forth.
   • [1611?], Homer, “Book XI”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:

     […] so weighty was the cup,
     That being propos'd brimful of wine, one scarce could lift it up.

     The spelling has been modernized.

使用する際の注意点

• In use 1, this is sometimes a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing).
• In use 3, this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive.
• For more information, see Appendix:English catenative verbs
• Compared to to suggest, to propose is more deliberate and definite. To suggest is merely to mention, while to propose is to have a definite plan and intention.

派生語

関連する語

• proponent
• proposition

名詞

propose (plural proposes)

1. (obsolete) An objective or aim.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     whose aime hath beene to make us not good and wittie, but wise and learned; She hath attained her propose.

アナグラム

• opposer, poopers