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発音

• enPR: prə-vīdʹ, IPA: /pɹəˈvaɪd/
• 韻: -aɪd
• ハイフネーション: pro‧vide

動詞

provide (third-person singular simple present provides, present participle providing, simple past and past participle provided)

1. To make a living; earn money for necessities.

   It is difficult to provide for my family working on minimum wage.

2. To act to prepare for something.

   provide against disaster.

3. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.

   The contract provides that the work be well done.

   I'll lend you the money, provided that you pay it back by Monday.

4. To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.

   Don't bother bringing equipment, as we will provide it.

   We aim to provide the local community with more green spaces.

   This resort provides an evening meal for its guests.

   • 2006, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 320:

     Humans provided the animals with food and protection in exchange for which the animals provided the humans their milk, eggs, and—yes—their flesh.

   • 2017 March 9, Jeanne Sahadi, “Lawyers fear Trump may kill legal aid funding for the poor”, in CNN Business‎:

     LSC provides grants to nonprofits nationwide that in turn provide civil legal aid to those who otherwise can't afford it. The beneficiaries of LSC funding include homeless veterans, low-income workers and victims of domestic abuse.

   • 2023 July 7, “UN says climate change ‘out of control’ after likely hottest week on record”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Climate Reanalyzer uses data from the NCEP climate forecast system to provide a time series of daily mean two-metre air temperature, based on readings from surface, air balloon and satellite observations.

5. To furnish (with), cause to be present, supply.

   Synonym: afford

   • 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations:

     Rome […] was generally well provided with corn.

6. To make possible or attainable.

   He provides us with an alternative option.

   Plants provide (us) with the oxygen we breathe.

   • 1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:

     Bring me berries, or such cooling fruit / As the kind, hospitable woods provide.

7. (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee, to consider in advance.
   • 1603 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Seianus His Fall, London: […] G[eorge] Elld, for Thomas Thorpe, published 1605, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     We have not been covetous, honourable fathers, to change, neither is it now any new lust that alters our affection, or old lothing, but those needful jealousies of state, that warn wiser princes hourly to provide their safety, and do teach them how learned a thing it is to beware of the humblest enemy; much more of those great ones, whom their own employed favours have made fit for their fears.

   • 1606, Ben Jonson, Volpone, Dedication, in Gifford’s 1816 edition volume III page 164:

     As for those that will (by faults which charity hath raked up, or common honesty concealed) make themselves a name with the multitude, or, to draw their rude and beastly claps, care not whose living faces they intrench with their petulant styles, may they do it without a rival, for me! I choose rather to live graved in obscurity, than share with them in so preposterous a fame. Nor can I blame the wishes of those severe and wise patriots, who providing the hurts these licentious spirits may do in a state, desire rather to see fools and devils, and those antique relics of barbarism retrieved, with all other ridiculous and exploded follies, than behold the wounds of private men, of princes and nations

8. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.
   • 1838, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: American Stationers’ Company; John B. Russell, →OCLC:

     provide such natives to the higher dignities of the church

使用する際の注意点

• As seen in the examples, when not used with that for previous conditions, provide is used with the prepositions for (beneficiary; also without preposition, usual for pronouns) and with (object).

Conjugation

派生語

関連する語

• provision

アナグラム

• prevoid

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈproː.wɪ.deː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈprɔː.vi.de]

副詞

prōvidē (comparative prōvidius, superlative prōvidissimē)

1. carefully, prudently

動詞

prōvidē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of prōvideō

名詞

prōvide

1. singular vocative of prōvidus

参照

• “provide”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “provide”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.