thing

/θɪŋ/

意味: 物、事

例文: That’s the thing I was looking for.
　　  それが私が探していた物だ。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: important thing(重要なこと), small thing(小さなもの), new thing(新しいもの)

定義: 物や事を指す言葉です。具体的な物体や抽象的な概念、出来事など、さまざまなものを指すことができます。何かを特定せずに一般的に言うときに使います。

thingは約2,000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: a special situation
Noun: an action
Noun: a special abstraction
Noun: an artifact
Noun: an event
Noun: a vaguely specified concern
Noun: a statement regarded as an object
Noun: an entity that is not named specifically
Noun: any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence
Noun: a special objective
Noun: a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion
Noun: a separate and self-contained entity

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

That is a strange thing to say.(それは変なことを言った。)
I forgot to bring the important thing.(重要なものを持ってくるのを忘れた。)
She fixed the broken thing quickly.(彼女は壊れたものをすぐに直した。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: this thing has got to end
Noun: it is a remarkable thing
Noun: how could you do such a thing?
Noun: a thing of the spirit
Noun: things of the heart
Noun: how does this thing work?
Noun: a funny thing happened on the way to the…
Noun: several matters to attend to
Noun: it is none of your affair
Noun: things are going well
Noun: to say the same thing in other terms
Noun: how can you say such a thing?
Noun: I couldn’t tell what the thing was
Noun: the thing I like about her is …
Noun: the thing is to stay in bounds
Noun: he has a thing about seafood
Noun: she has a thing about him

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): affair, matter, thing

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): abstraction, action, aim, artifact, attribute, concern, entity, feeling, happening, physical entity, situation, statement

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): absolute, abstraction, absurd, acceptance, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, affect, affection, aggression, agitation, agreement, alienation, ambivalence, amendment, americana, anachronism, announcement, answer, antiquity, apathy, appearance, application, arrival, article, assurance, astonishment, avalanche, ballast, ballgame, beatification, beginning, bid, bill of rights, block, boom, bruxism, building material, business, button, calmness, case, causal agent, cautious statement, challenge, change, character, cheerfulness, childlessness, choice, collapse, comment, commodity, common denominator, complex, complication, condition, cone, contact, convergence, course, covering, crash, creation, crowding, decker, declaration, decoration, depth, description, desire, despair, destabilization, destiny, devastation, disappearance, discharge, disequilibrium, dislike, economy, eidos, electroplate, element, emotion, emphasizing, employment, ending, enthusiasm, environment, episode, equilibrium, error, estimate, ethos, eventuality, excavation, exclusion, expectation, experience, explanans, explanation, explicandum, extra, fabric, facility, failure, faintness, falsehood, fearlessness, fetch, finish, fire, fixture, flash, float, formula, glow, goldfish bowl, grail, gratitude, gravity, happiness, hope, hotbed, human nature, humility, incident, inclusion, ingratitude, inheritance, insert, instrumentality, interaction, interruption, intestacy, jumpstart, juncture, kindness, layer, lemon, levity, liking, line, marker, mathematical statement, matter, miracle, misstatement, movement, mystification, negation, news event, object, one-off, opening, outbreak, outburst, padding, pain, pang, part, passion, paving, performance, periodic event, personal business, personality, physical entity, pickings, picture, play, playing, plaything, pleading, pleasure, point, point of honor, politeness, prediction, pride, prison, process, prohibition, property, proposition, quality, quotation, ready-made, recital, reference, rejection, remark, representation, res gestae, reservation, resistance, restatement, restoration, reverence, reverse, rhetorical question, right, sadness, sensitivity, sentiment, sex, shame, shape, sheet, size, solution, soul, sound, space, sphere, square, square one, squeaker, state, status quo, strip, structure, stupefaction, substance, success, summary, supervention, surface, sympathy, teacher, temper, thing, time, track, trait, transfusion, transgression, treat, trouble, truth, uncheerfulness, unconcern, understatement, union, value statement, vampirism, way, weight, wonder, word, worldly concern

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): body of water, change, feast, flagship, freshener, horror, inessential, jimdandy, least, necessity, pacifier, part, pill, reservoir, security blanket, snorter, standby, stinker, subject, unit, variable, variation, whacker, wobbler

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words:

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: psychology

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: conversation, emotional

Grammatical Notes:

countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): ing

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): Big Hero 6, Finding Nemo, Frozen, 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: