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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˈljuːd/, /əˈluːd/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /əˈlud/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /əˈlʉːd/
• 韻: -uːd
• 異形同音異義語: elude, illude (weak vowel merger)

動詞

allude (third-person singular simple present alludes, present participle alluding, simple past and past participle alluded)

1. (intransitive) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to invoke it by implication rather than mention.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:allude

   • 1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book V, Chapter xxix.3, 1841 ed., page 523:

     These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use.

   • 1846, George Luxford, Edward Newman, The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany: Volume 2, Part 2, page 474:

     It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude.

   • 2012 January, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 14 November 2012, page 23:

     We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.

使用する際の注意点

• Not to be confused with elude or illude.

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参考

• hark back
• hearken back

参照

• “allude”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “allude”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

アナグラム

• aludel

動詞

allūde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of allūdō