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発音

• (weak vowel distinction) IPA: /ɪˈkwɪp/, [ɪˈkʰwɪp]
• (weak vowel merger) IPA: /əˈkwɪp/, [əˈkʰwɪp]
• 韻: -ɪp
• ハイフネーション: equip

動詞

equip (third-person singular simple present equips, present participle equipping, simple past equipped, past participle equipped or (archaic) equipt)

1. (transitive) To supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task; to provide with (e.g. weapons, provisions, munitions, rigging).
   • 1698-1699, Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs

     Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet.

   • 1916, “Indicator Tells Pursuing Police Speed of Automobile”, in Popular Science Monthly/Volume 88:

     A semicircular plate, with the numbers in multiples of five up to thirty miles an hour, is equipped with a pointer, which indicates accurately the speed of the car.

   • 2007 February 4, Randall Stross, “Wireless Internet for All, Without the Towers”, in The New York Times‎:

     Some of those neighbors will also have Meraki boxes that serve as repeaters, relaying the signal still farther to more neighbors. The company equips its boxes with software that maintains a “mesh network,” which dynamically reroutes signals as boxes are added or unplugged, and as environmental conditions that affect network performance fluctuate moment to moment.

   • 2020 February 13, Roland Oliphant, “'I have lost four years of my life': the desperate migrants stuck in squalid Libyan camps”, in The Telegraph‎:

     More than 40,000 would-be migrants to Europe have been intercepted at sea since Italy began paying and equipping the Libyan coastguard to do so in 2017.

2. (transitive) To dress up; to array; to clothe.
   • 1711 July 13 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “MONDAY, July 2, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 129; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

     The country are led astray in following the town, and equipped in a ridiculous habit, when they fancy themselves in the height of the mode.

     The spelling has been modernized.

3. (transitive) To prepare (someone) with a skill.

   I'm sorry, but I don't feel equipped to answer that kinda question yet.

   • 1921, Rafael Sabatini, In Destiny's Clutch:

     it is no more than proper that you should equip us with a vessel in which to pursue the journey which you interrupted

   • 1947 October 20, “Russian Catechism”, in Time:

     Already in the primary school work is conducted for the purpose of equipping the pupils with those elements of general knowledge which are closely related to the military preparation of future warriors.

4. (transitive, gaming) To equip oneself with (an item); to bring (equipment) into active use.
   • 2002, Prima Temp Authors, PlayStation 2: Hot Strategies for Cool Games, page 69:

     Take it down from a distance with a magic spell, or equip your sword and attack it at close range.

同意語

• (to supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific action or task): apparel, dight, fit out, kit out
• (to dress up): don, dress, put on; see also Thesaurus:clothe

派生語

関連する語

名詞

equip (uncountable)

1. (gaming, slang) Equipment (carried by a game character).

参照

• “equip”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• pequi, pique, piqué