infectとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ɪnˈfɛkt/
• 韻: -ɛkt

動詞

infect (third-person singular simple present infects, present participle infecting, simple past and past participle infected)

1. (transitive) To bring (the body or part of it) into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen), so that the pathogen begins to act on the body; (of a pathogen) to come into contact with (a body or body part) and begin to act on it.

   Not everyone will be infected when an epidemic strikes.

   • 2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:

     Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola.

   • 2020 February 18, Isabella Kwai, “How a Pharmacy Handles Mask Hoarders and Coronavirus Fears”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 February 2020, Asia Pacific‎:

     Ms. Tang’s inevitable contact with people who are ill has started to worry her. It did not help when she learned that someone living in a building near her own, in Siu Sai Wan, had been infected by the virus.

2. (transitive) To contaminate (an object or substance) with a pathogen.
3. (transitive) To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion, or to communicate a feeling to others, or a feeling communicating itself to others.

   Her passion for dancing has infected me.

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 164:

     Guido, by way of diverting the embarrassment which seemed to infect them all, began to unfasten the packet of letters.

同意語

• (to contaminate): leper (rare)

反意語

• disinfect

派生語

関連する語

• infectious

形容詞

infect (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Infected.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], line 187:

     And in the imitation of these twain, / Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns / With an imperial voice, many are infect.

語源 2

Borrowed from Latin īnfectus, equivalent to in- (“not”) + factus, perfect passive participle of faciō (“to do, make”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈɪnfɛkt/
• 韻: -ɪnfɛkt

形容詞

infect (not comparable)

1. (rare, grammar, of a tense or verb form) Representing an action not yet completed.

   Coordinate terms: perfect, imperfect

アナグラム

• netfic