utility

/juːˈtɪl.ə.ti/

意味: 公共サービス、実用性

例文: The house has modern utilities.
　　  その家には最新の設備がある。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: utility bill(公共料金請求書), utility company(公共事業会社), utility knife(多目的ナイフ)

定義: 役立つことや便利さを指します。また、電気や水道などの公共サービスを提供する会社やそのサービス自体を指すこともあります。

utilityは約50,000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 company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation
Noun: the quality of being of practical use
Noun: the service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility
Noun: (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice
Noun: (computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer
Noun: a facility composed of one or more pieces of equipment connected to or part of a structure and designed to provide a service such as heat or electricity or water or sewage disposal
Adjective: used of beef; usable but inferior
Adjective: capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Adjective

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The utility of this tool is very high.(この道具の有用性は非常に高い。)
She pays the utility bills every month.(彼女は毎月公共料金を支払う。)
Utility vehicles are essential for construction work.(作業用車両は建設作業に欠かせない。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: the cost of utilities never decreases
Noun: all the utilities were lost after the hurricane
Noun: a computer system provides utility programs to perform the tasks needed by most users
Noun: the price of the house included all utilities
Adjective: a utility infielder

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): public utility, public utility company, public-service corporation, service program, substitute, usefulness, utility, utility program, utility-grade

Antonyms(反意語): inutility, uselessness

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): facility, program, quality, service, system of measurement

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): ability, accuracy, air, airfield, amorality, anti-virus program, appearance, application, arability, arboretum, assembler, asset, athletic facility, attraction, backroom, bad, beaufort scale, binary, board measure, brachycephaly, brix scale, c program, cafeteria facility, certainty, changeableness, changelessness, characteristic, checking program, circular measure, clearness, combustibility, communication system, compiler, complexity, comprehensibility, constructiveness, consulting service, correctness, counterfactuality, course, credibility, debugger, depository, destructiveness, difference, difficulty, directivity, distinction, divinity, divisibility, dolichocephaly, domesticity, drive-in, ease, elegance, ethnicity, excellence, expressiveness, extraordinariness, extremeness, facility, factuality, fibrosity, fidelity, finiteness, foreignness, fortran program, forum, fruitfulness, fruitlessness, gas system, generality, good, hardness, holiness, hot stuff, humaneness, humanness, humor, ideality, illogicality, immateriality, immobility, immorality, impenetrability, impressiveness, inability, inaccuracy, incomprehensibility, incorrectness, incredibility, inelegance, infidelity, infiniteness, information measure, inhumaneness, insolubility, interface, interpreter, inutility, irregularity, job control, lawfulness, library program, lisp program, logicality, loop, malevolent program, materiality, memorability, menagerie, military installation, mobility, monitor program, morality, naivete, national service, nativeness, naturalness, nature, navigability, neediness, negativity, object program, occidentalism, opacity, ordinariness, orientalism, originality, painfulness, parental quality, parser, particularity, patch, pathos, penetrability, piquancy, pleasantness, point system, popularity, positivity, power, power system, powerlessness, probability, protectiveness, publicity, quantifiability, range, recreational facility, regularity, relativity, relocatable program, responsiveness, reusable program, romanticism, salability, sameness, satisfactoriness, search engine, self-adapting program, sewage system, simplicity, snootiness, soapiness, solubility, sophistication, source, source program, spider, spinnability, spreadsheet, standard, station, stored program, stuff, stuffiness, subjectivism, sufficiency, suitability, supervisory program, syntax checker, system of weights, system of weights and measures, system program, tagger, temperature scale, text-matching, tone, translator, transportation system, ulteriority, ultimate, uncertainty, unholiness, unlawfulness, unnaturalness, unoriginality, unpleasantness, unpopularity, unresponsiveness, unsatisfactoriness, unsuitability, unwholesomeness, urbanity, utility, utility program, virtu, water system, waxiness, web map service, wholesomeness, woodiness, worth, worthlessness

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): bus company, detergency, diagnostic program, driver, electrical system, function, gas company, heating system, helpfulness, input program, instrumentality, marginal utility, output program, plumbing, power company, practicability, practicality, serviceability, sort program, telephone company, trace program, use, water company

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: substitute, useful, utile, utilise, utilitarian, utilize

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: economics, science, technology

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:

countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): ity

Exam Level

英検準1級

TOEIC500

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits

Movies(映画):

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: positive