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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /səˈmaʊnt/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /sɚˈmaʊnt/
• (General Australian) IPA: /səˈmæɔnt/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /səˈmæʊnt/
• 韻: -aʊnt

動詞

surmount (third-person singular simple present surmounts, present participle surmounting, simple past and past participle surmounted)

1. (transitive) To get or be over without touching or resting on; to overcome.
   • 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 10:

     this difficulty may perhaps be surmounted by care and art

   • 1960, Yehezkel Kaufmann, “Chapter II: Pagan Religion”, in Moshe Greenberg, transl., The Religion of Israel, University of Chicago, →OCLC, page 23:

     There are two realms: that of divine powers, another of the metadivine. Even the gods are depicted as calling upon metadivine forces to surmount their own predestined limitations.

   • 1995, Study on Legislation Related to Regulations Organs in the Field of Broadcasting in West Africa:

     Burkina Fasoan legislation surmounts one more step which sees in the organ created in this country and designated as the Superior Council of Information (S.C.I.), " an administrative authority".

2. (transitive) To cap; to sit on top of.
   • 1951 April, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: London Midland Region”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 283:

     The boiler had a large dome over the firebox, inside the cab, surmounted by Ramsbottom safety valves.

   • 2007, Robert Chitham, The Classical Orders of Architecture, →ISBN:

     The ovolo surmounting the dentil course generally turns the corner by means of a carved acanthus leaf, the decorated cyma and cyma reversa being similarly treated at the corner.

派生語

関連する語

• surmountable
• insurmountable

Further reading

• “surmount”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “surmount”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “surmount”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.