発音 (3)
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/ɪnˈvoʊk/
発音の補足
- General-American
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/ɪnˈvəʊk/
発音の補足
- Received-Pronunciation
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ɪnˈvoʊk
発音の補足
- US
動詞
To call upon (a person, a god) for help, assistance or guidance.
用法- 他動詞
To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude.
用法- 他動詞
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The envoy invoked the King of Kings's magnanimity to reduce his province's tribute after another drought.
Whatever the pressures that have invoked the Minister's diktat, the outcome is Gilbertian.
その他の例文 (1)
In May [1995], the court issued an interdict preventing the service withdrawal, pending consultation on the closure to passenger traffic of three short stretches of railway around Glasgow and its hinterland that were only used by the Fort William Sleeper - and for which BR had failed to invoke standard closure procedures.
To call another ship.
用法- 他動詞
- of one ship
- 同義語
To call to mind (something) for some purpose.
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その他の例文 (2)
After marriage, the man had anciently (but this was anterior to Christianity) the power of life and death over his wife. She could invoke no law against him; he was her sole tribunal and law.
The acquisition of a useless part can hardly be said to raise an organism in the natural scale; and in the case of the imperfect, closed flowers, above described, if any new principle has to be invoked, it must be one of retrogression rather than of progression; and so it must be with many parasitic and degraded animals.
It is easier to invoke or to deplore democracy than to say exactly what it is.
To appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority.
用法- 他動詞
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In certain Christian circles, invoking the Bible constitutes irrefutable proof.
He invoked cadaveric poisoning as the reason for the high death rate among priests and monks […]
その他の例文 (1)
Their ties to the area may be based on traditional rather than written claims – but Bir Tawil is not any more a “no man’s land” than the territory once known as British East Africa, where terra nullius was repeatedly invoked in the early 20th century by both chartered companies and the British government that supported them to justify the appropriation of territory from indigenous people.
To conjure up with incantations.
用法- 他動詞
- 同義語
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This satanist ritual invokes Beelzebub.
To bring about as an inevitable consequence.
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Blasphemy is taboo as it may invoke divine wrath.
To cause (a program or subroutine) to execute.
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Interactive programs let the users enter choices and invoke the corresponding routines.
[…]the selling price and cost of a particular item are derived by the system through a table lookup and assigned to the item at invoking time.
その他の例文 (1)
C++ lets you invoke an operator function either by calling the function or by using the overloaded operator with its usual syntax.
動詞
summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
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raise the specter of unemployment
he conjured wild birds in the air
その他の例文 (1)
call down the spirits from the mountain
cite as an authority; resort to
- 同義語
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He invoked the law that would save him
I appealed to the law of 1900
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She invoked an ancient law
request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection
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appeal to somebody for help
Invoke God in times of trouble