middle

/mɪd.əl/

意味: 真ん中、中央

例文: Kai stood in the middle.
　　  カイが中央に立っていた。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: middle school(中学校), middle class(中流階級), middle age(中年)

定義: 物や時間の真ん中や中央の部分を指します。例えば、道の真ん中や一日の中間の時間を表すときに使います。また、社会的な階級や年齢の中間を指すこともあります。

middleは約7,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: an area that is approximately central within some larger region
Noun: an intermediate part or section; – Aristotle
Noun: the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)
Noun: time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period
Verb: put in the middle
Adjective: being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series
Adjective: equally distant from the extremes
Adjective: of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages
Adjective: between an earlier and a later period of time

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb, Adjective

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The book is placed in the middle of the table.(本はテーブルの真ん中に置いてあります。)
She stood in the middle of the crowd.(彼女は人混みの真ん中に立っていました。)
He cut the sandwich in the middle.(彼はサンドイッチを真ん中で切りました。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: it is in the center of town
Noun: they ran forward into the heart of the struggle
Noun: they were in the eye of the storm
Noun: A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end
Noun: young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable
Noun: the middle of the war
Noun: rain during the middle of April
Adjective: adolescence is an awkward in-between age
Adjective: in a mediate position
Adjective: the middle point on a line
Adjective: Middle English is the English language from about 1100 to 1500
Adjective: Middle Gaelic
Adjective: in the middle years
Adjective: in his middle thirties

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): center, centre, eye, halfway, heart, in-between, mediate, middle, midriff, midsection, midway

Antonyms(反意語): beginning, early, end, late

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): area, part, point, put

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): anchorage, appose, area of cardiac dullness, arena, areola, arrange, arrival time, barrel, bed, bed ground, beginning, block, bottle, broadcast area, bucket, butt, center, chukker, clap, cleavage, cock, coffin, component, corner, cortical area, cram, danger, date, deadline, departure time, disaster area, dispose, distance, docket, emplace, end, ensconce, epigastrium, erogenous zone, final period, first period, fovea, frame, free port, game, glycerolize, groin, ground, half, half-moon, haunt, hearth, high country, high point, hunting ground, hypochondrium, imbricate, inning, insert, install, intersperse, jar, juxtapose, ladle, lay, lean, load, macula, marshal, middle, midterm, misplace, moment, neighborhood, nestle, no man’s land, no-go area, open, over, palm, parafovea, parallelize, park, perch, perineum, period, phase, pigeonhole, pile, pillow, plant, poise, position, postpose, prepose, pressure point, pubes, quadrant, quarter, quick, rack up, rain shadow, recess, recline, replace, repose, reposition, resort area, rest, retreat, run-time, safety, scene, seat, second period, section, set, set down, settle, shelve, ship, show time, shrubbery, side, sign, siphon, situate, sole, sow, space, staging area, stand, step, stratify, superimpose, superpose, tank farm, tee, term, then, thenar, throw, trench, turn, underlay, upend, waist, winner’s circle

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): center stage, city center, deep, financial center, hub, inner city, medical center, midfield, midstream, seat, storm center

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: center, central, centric, centrical, middle

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: science

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:

countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞): mid

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検3級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): The Bad Guys, Zootopia

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: