tame

/teɪm/

意味: 飼いならされた、大人しい

例文: Momo is tame with the Lexifam.
　　  モモはレキシファム家には大人しい。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: tame animal(飼いならされた動物), tame behavior(おとなしい行動), tame nature(穏やかな性質)

定義: 動物や人をおとなしくさせること、またはその状態を指します。野生のものを飼いならして、人に慣れさせることを意味します。例えば、野生の動物を飼いならしてペットにすることが含まれます。

tameは約300,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

Definitions(定義)

Verb: correct by punishment or discipline
Verb: make less strong or intense; soften
Verb: adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
Verb: overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
Verb: make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
Adjective: flat and uninspiring
Adjective: very restrained or quiet
Adjective: brought from wildness into a domesticated state
Adjective: very docile; ; – Langston Hughes

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Verb, Adjective

Examples(例文)

Verb: Tone down that aggressive letter
Verb: The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements
Verb: domesticate oats
Verb: tame the soil
Verb: He tames lions for the circus
Verb: reclaim falcons
Verb: The horse was domesticated a long time ago
Verb: The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog
Adjective: a tame Christmas party
Adjective: she was one of the tamest and most abject creatures imaginable with no will or power to act but as directed
Adjective: tame animals
Adjective: fields of tame blueberries
Adjective: tame obedience
Adjective: meek as a mouse

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): chasten, cultivate, domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, meek, moderate, naturalise, naturalize, reclaim, subdue, tame, tamed, tone down

Antonyms(反意語): wild

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): adapt, change

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accelerate, acerbate, acetylate, achromatize, activate, adjust, affect, age, alchemize, alcoholize, alkalinize, allegorize, alter, americanize, anglicise, angulate, animize, antiquate, antique, archaize, arterialize, ash, assimilate, automatize, awaken, barb, barbarize, bestialize, better, blind, blister, blunt, blur, boil, break, break down, brighten, bring, brutalize, bubble, calcify, camp, capture, cause to sleep, centralize, change intensity, change taste, charge, chasten, check, christianize, circularize, civilize, clarify, classicize, clean, clear, clot, cloud, coarsen, cohere, color, commercialize, communize, commute, complicate, condense, confuse, constitutionalize, contaminate, conventionalize, convert, cook, cool, corrupt, counterchange, crack, cry, customize, damage, darken, de-emphasize, deaden, deaminate, decarboxylate, decelerate, decentralize, decimalize, decorate, decrease, decrepitate, deflate, deform, dehydrogenate, demagnetize, demist, democratize, demonize, demulsify, demythologize, denationalize, denaturalize, denature, deodorize, depersonalize, depolarize, desensitize, destabilize, detransitivize, devalue, develop, devilize, digitize, dinge, dirty, disable, discolor, disharmonize, disintegrate, disorder, disqualify, dissimilate, dissolve, diversify, dizzy, domesticate, dope, draw, dry, dull, dynamize, ease up, edit, electrify, embrittle, empty, emulsify, enable, end, equal, eroticize, estrange, etherealize, etiolate, europeanize, evaporate, even, excite, extend, exteriorize, fatten, feminize, fertilize, fill, fit, fix, flatten, flocculate, freeze, frenchify, full, gear, gelatinize, glamorize, glorify, habituate, harmonize, harshen, heat, hue, humanize, humble, hydrogenate, immaterialize, immortalize, inactivate, incandesce, increase, indispose, industrialize, inflate, inform, inseminate, insulate, intensify, internationalize, introvert, invalidate, invert, iodinate, ionate, islamize, isomerize, laicize, legitimate, lend, liberalize, lifehack, lift, liquefy, loosen, louden, lower, lubricate, magnetize, make, mark, masculinize, mechanize, militarize, mince, mix, morph, muddy, mythologize, nationalize, naturalize, nazify, neutralize, nick, normalize, obfuscate, obscure, occidentalize, officialize, opacify, opalize, opsonize, orientalize, ossify, outmode, oxidize, oxygenize, paganize, pall, parallel, patent, personalize, piggyback, plasticize, poison, polarize, politicize, port, professionalize, proof, prostrate, purify, put, radicalize, rarefy, rationalize, recombine, recommend, reconstruct, refine, reflate, reform, refresh, relax, remodel, restore, revolutionize, right, ripen, romanticize, round off, rusticate, sanitize, saponify, saturate, sauce, schematize, scramble, sensitize, sentimentalize, set, sexualize, shade, shake, shallow, shape, sharpen, shift, shoehorn, shorten, simplify, slenderize, smut, sober, socialize, soften, solemnize, solvate, spice, spike, sputter, stabilize, stain, steepen, stiffen, still, straighten, strengthen, string, substitute, suburbanize, supercharge, supple, suspend, sweeten, switch, symmetrize, synchronize, tailor, tame, tender, tense, territorialize, thicken, think, tighten, tone down, touch, transaminate, transcribe, transfigure, transform, transitivize, translate, transmute, transpose, turn, turn back, uglify, unclutter, uniformize, unite, unsanctify, unscramble, unsex, untie, untune, urbanize, validate, variegate, vascularize, ventilate, verbify, vesiculate, visualize, vitalize, vitrify, vivify, volatilize, vulgarise, warm, weaken, weaponize, wet, widen, worsen

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): break in

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: meekness, moderation, naturalisation, naturalization, tamable, tameable, tameness, tamer

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: law

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb

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Exam Level

英検準1級

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Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

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