hasteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /heɪst/
• 韻: -eɪst

名詞

haste (usually uncountable, plural hastes)

1. Speed; swiftness; dispatch.

   We were running late so we finished our meal in haste.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 12:8:

     The king's business required haste.

   • 2017, Russell M. Peterson, The Armies of Forever, page 368:

     There was a stampede as the congressmen jumped the banister in their hastes to be the first to sign away their souls.

2. (obsolete) Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 116:11:

     I said in my haste, All men are liars.

派生語

動詞

haste (third-person singular simple present hastes, present participle hasting, simple past and past participle hasted)

1. (transitive, archaic) To urge onward; to hasten.
   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 168:

     Baſſ. You may doe ſo, but let it be ſo haſted that ſupper be readie at the fartheſt by fiue of the clocke.

2. (intransitive, archaic) To move with haste.
   • 1594, “The Wounds of Civill War”, in A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition)‎:

     The city is amaz'd, for Sylla hastes / To enter Rome with fury, sword and fire.

   • 1825, Samuel Johnson, The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes‎:

     He hastes away to another, whom his affairs have called to a distant place, and, having seen the empty house, goes away disgusted by a disappointment which could not be intended, because it could not be foreseen.

   • 1881, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present‎:

     Samson hastes not; but neither does he pause to rest.

   • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 133:

     Waziri’s warriors marched at a rapid trot through the jungle in the direction of the village. For a few minutes, the sharp cracking of guns ahead warned them to haste, but finally the reports dwindled to an occasional shot, presently ceasing altogether.

同意語

• (move with haste): hurry, rush, scamper, scramble, scurry

派生語

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