English Dictionary

patent

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpeɪtənt/

形容詞

古語 広義 比喩的用法

(baking) Of flour: fine, and consisting mostly of the inner part of the endosperm of the grain from which it is milled.

日本語の意味

（小麦粉に関して）穀物の胚乳の内側部分を主に利用して製粉され、非常に細かく精製された粉。

The bakery's signature croissant was made with patent flour to achieve a delicate, flaky crumb.

そのパン屋の看板クロワッサンは、胚乳の内側部分を主に使って精製された細かい小麦粉で作られており、繊細で層状の食感を実現していた。

意味（1）

(baking) Of flour: fine, and consisting mostly of the inner part of the endosperm of the grain from which it is milled.

意味（2）

(medicine) Open, unobstructed; specifically, especially of the ductus arteriosus or foramen ovale in the heart, having not closed as would have happened in normal development.

She has a patent ductus arteriosus that will require surgery to close.

意味（3）

(medicine, veterinary medicine) Of an infection: in the phase when the organism causing it can be detected by clinical tests.

意味（4）

Explicit and obvious.

Those claims are patent nonsense.

意味（5）

Especially of a document conferring some privilege or right: open to public perusal or use.

letters patent

意味（6）

Appointed or conferred by letters patent.

[H]e did at last think of an office which do belong to him in case the King do restore every man to his places that ever had been patent, which is to be one of the clerks of the signet, which will be a fine employment for one of his sons.

意味（7）

(botany) Of a branch, leaf, etc.: outspread; also, spreading at right angles to the axis.

意味（8）

(law) Protected by a legal patent.

a patent right patent medicines

意味（9）

(by extension, figuratively) To which someone has, or seems to have, a claim or an exclusive claim; also, inventive or particularly suited for.

[]Ben, my fine fellow, put your hand into the cupboard, and bring out the patent digester. Mr. Benjamin Allen smiled his readiness, and produced from the closet at his elbow a black bottle half full of brandy.

more patent （ comparative ）

most patent （ superlative ）