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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmɒd.ɪ.faɪ/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈmɑ.dɪˌfaɪ/
• ハイフネーション: mod‧i‧fy

動詞

modify (third-person singular simple present modifies, present participle modifying, simple past and past participle modified)

1. (transitive) To change part of.

   Her publisher advised her to modify a few parts of the book to make it easier to read.

2. (intransitive) To be or become modified.
3. (transitive) To set bounds to; to moderate.
4. (transitive, grammar) To qualify the meaning of.
   • 1977, Linda R. Waugh, A Semantic Analysis of Word Order: Position of the Adjective in French‎:

     There is inherently no ordering to the modification and no hierarchy of modification: that is, both adjectives modify the substantive and both apply equally to the substantive […]

   • 2016, Allen Ascher, The New Harbrace Guide: Genres for Composing‎:

     Adjectives modify nouns.

Conjugation

同意語

• adapt, alter, amend, revamp, rework

派生語

関連する語

• modification

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “modify”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “modify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• domify