has tenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈheɪ.sn̩/
• 韻: -eɪsən

動詞

hasten (third-person singular simple present hastens, present participle hastening, simple past and past participle hastened)

1. (intransitive) To move or act in a quick fashion.
2. (transitive) To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 55:8:

     I would hasten my escape from the windy storm.

   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     Hamlet:
     Bid the players make haste.
     Will you two help to hasten them?

   • 1956 May, C. H. Betts, “St. Pancras Tunnel Signalbox”, in Railway Magazine, page 320:

     A dearth of signalmen and the high cost of labour is hastening an elimination process that already was well under way before the second world war.

3. (transitive) To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.
   • 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 96:

     The decision to hasten completion of the electrification of London Midland Region main lines from Euston to the north and the subsequent diversion of some traffic to the Western Region in order to allow the engineers fuller track occupation, have focused attention on the two main routes between London, Birmingham and Wolverhampton.

   • 2008, Bradley Simpson, Economists with Guns, page 7:

     […] and prescribed policies and packages of military, economic and technical assistance to hasten their inevitable march toward development and modernity.

同意語

• (move in a quick fashion): dart, race; see also Thesaurus:move quickly
• (speed up): accelerate, quicken, speed up; see also Thesaurus:speed up
• (cause a scheduled event to happen earlier): hurry, rush, zoom; see also Thesaurus:rush

派生語

関連する語

• haste

参照

• “hasten”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• Nathes, thanes, Athens, sneath, snathe, Tehans, Sneath, Anthes