PUREとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation)
  • (pour–poor merger) IPA: /ˈpjʊə(ɹ)/
  • (without the pour–poor merger) IPA: /ˈpjɔː(ɹ)/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈpjʊɹ/, /ˈpjoɹ/, /ˈpjɚ/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈpjʉːə/, /ˈpjoː/
• (Canada) IPA: /ˈpjuː(ə)ɹ/
  • (dialectical) IPA: /ˈpɪʊ(ə)ɹ/
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA: /pjʉːɹ/
• (Ireland) IPA: /pjuːɹ/
• (Wales) IPA: /ˈpɪʊə(ɹ)/
• (cure–fir merger, rhotic) IPA: /ˈpjɝ/
• (cure–fir merger, non-rhotic) IPA: /ˈpjɜː/
• 韻: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)

形容詞

pure (comparative purer or more pure, superlative purest or most pure)

1. Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.

   Synonyms: pristine, untouched, virgin; see also Thesaurus:pure

   Antonyms: dirty, flawed, impure; see also Thesaurus:impure

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter VII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records.

2. Free of foreign material or pollutants.

   Synonyms: crude, natural, unrefined; see also Thesaurus:raw

   Antonyms: contaminated, impure; see also Thesaurus:contaminated

   • 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC:

     A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy.

   • 1837, Leitch Ritchie, Ireland Picturesque and Romantic, volume 1, page 225:

     As for the rest, the air here is said to be purer than elsewhere in Ireland; the water of the Nore is beautifully transparent; and the bogless state of the land helps out the rhyme.

   • 1908 January 4, John Muir, “The Hetch Hetchy Valley”, in Sierra Club Bulletin‎, volume VI, number 4:

     "Hetch Hetchy water is the purest, wholly unpolluted, and forever unpollutable."

3. Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.

   Synonyms: innocent, chaste; see also Thesaurus:innocent

   Antonyms: corrupt, guilty, sinful; see also Thesaurus:guilty

   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, 1 Timothy v:[22], folio cclxxviij, recto:

     Laye hondes sodenly on no man nether be part taker of wother mens synnes. Kepe thy silfe pure.

4. Mere; that and that only.

   Synonyms: alone, bare, only, simple, very

   That idea is pure madness!

5. (of a branch of science) Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.

   Antonym: applied

   • 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:

     The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.

6. (phonetics) Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
7. (of sound) Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.
8. (programming) Having no side effects.

   a pure method

9. (Bermuda, slang) A lot of.
   • 2013 April 12, “Exclusive: Meet Derpuntae - Bermuda's first meme”, in The Bermuda Sun‎, archived from the original on 12 December 2022:

     Well when ah's youngah, ah'd just light a candle rahn de dinna table play pure crazy 8s and spades vif my brotha til we lot dozed off...

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• → Welsh: piwr

副詞

pure (not comparable)

1. (Liverpool, Scotland) to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.

   You’re pure busy.

   • 1996, Trainspotting (film)

     I just get pure shy with the interview cats.

動詞

pure (third-person singular simple present pures, present participle puring, simple past and past participle pured)

1. (golf) To hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately.

   Tiger Woods pured his first drive straight down the middle of the fairway.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To cleanse; to refine.

名詞

pure (countable and uncountable, plural pures)

1. One who, or that which, is pure.
   • 1845, The Lancet, page 187:

     ... the establishment of an inferior College, and the consequent connexion of the many thousands of British practitioners in medicine and surgery with a subordinate institution, and one that should be subservient to the government of the pures.

   • c. 1870, D. K. Gavan, Rocky Road to Dublin:

     Took a drop of the pure, to keep my spirits from sinking, […]

   • 1998, Christopher Leigh Connery, The Empire of the Text: Writing and Authority in Early Imperial China, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 30:

     All interpretive frames will impose their categories on the object of historical analysis, and I am not proposing that this narrative of the "pures"; be rejected in favor of some phantasmatic framework that claims to derive more purely from the sources themselves. I will show in chapter 3 that, since the "pures" possibly did not even exist […]

語源 2

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /pjʊə/
• (General American) IPA: /pjʊɹ/
• 韻: -ʊə(ɹ)

名詞

pure (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of puer (“dung (e.g. of dogs)”).
   • 1851, H. Mayhew, London Labour and the London poor, vII. 142/1:

     […] Dogs'-dung is called ‘Pure’, from its cleansing and purifying properties.

   • 2001, Wendy Lawton, chapter 8, in The Tinker's Daughter:

     Mary smelled the rancid odor of the tannery on the right side of the road. […]
     "What is that, Mary?" Jake asked.
     "'Tis a bag for collecting pure. That is going to be your job, Jake. You are to collect pure."
     "Pure? What is pure?"
     "Pure is another word for dung," Mary answered.

   • 2013, Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam, page 28:

     […] surely there was something better for him than chasing the pure (footnote: A term, technically speaking, for dog muck, much prized by the tanneries.) […]

Further reading

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

アナグラム

• Pu'er, puer, Prue, reup, re-up, Puer, Pre-U, Perú, Peru, pu'er, Rupe

語源

From Old French pur, from Latin pūrus.

発音

• IPA: /piu̯r/

形容詞

pure (comparative purer, superlative purest)

1. pure, unadulterated, undiluted, untarnished
2. entire, total, all
3. perfect, wonderful, unflawed
4. morally clean, pure, or upstanding
5. chaste
6. true, real, genuine, not counterfeit
7. clear, obvious, simple

派生した語

• Scots: puir, pure
• English: pure
• → Cornish: pur

参照

• “pūr(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2 April 2018.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈpuː.rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈpuː.re]

名詞

pūre

1. ablative singular of pūs

語源 2

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈpuː.rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈpuː.re]

形容詞

pūre

1. vocative masculine singular of pūrus

語源 3

From pūrus (“clean; pure”) +‎ -ē (adverbial suffix).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈpuː.reː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈpuː.re]

副詞

pūrē (comparative pūrius, superlative pūrissimē, adjective pūrus)

1. clearly, brightly, cleanly
2. correctly, faultlessly, perfectly, purely

   Synonym: ēmendātē

   loqui pure

   to speak correctly

派生した語

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: pure

参照

• “pure”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pure”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) logic, dialectic: dialectica (-ae or -orum) (pure Latin disserendi ratio et scientia)
    
  • (ambiguous) astronomy: astrologia (pure Latin sidera, caelestia)
    

アナグラム

• puer, rūpe