balance

/ˈbæləns/

意味: バランス

例文: ALX-9000 lost balance on spilled juice.
　　  ALX-9000はこぼれたジュースでバランスを失った。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: balance sheet(貸借対照表), balance of power(勢力均衡), work-life balance(仕事と生活の調和)

定義: 物事が均等で安定している状態。例えば、体が倒れないようにすることや、収入と支出が同じくらいであることを指します。バランスが取れていると、物事がうまく進みやすくなります。

balanceは約20,000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 state of equilibrium
Noun: equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account
Noun: harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design); – John Ruskin
Noun: equality of distribution
Noun: something left after other parts have been taken away
Noun: the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account
Noun: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Libra
Noun: the seventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about September 23 to October 22
Noun: (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane
Noun: a weight that balances another weight
Noun: a wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat
Noun: a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity
Verb: bring into balance or equilibrium
Verb: compute credits and debits of an account
Verb: hold or carry in equilibrium
Verb: be in equilibrium

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

She struggled to find balance between work and personal life.(彼女は仕事と私生活のバランスを取るのに苦労した。)
Let’s keep the balance in our friendship, okay?(友情のバランスを保とうね。)
The committee seeks to balance the budget while maintaining quality services.(委員会は質の高いサービスを維持しながら予算のバランスを取ろうとしている。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance
Noun: there was no remainder
Noun: he threw away the rest
Noun: he took what he wanted and I got the balance
Verb: She has to balance work and her domestic duties
Verb: balance the two weights
Verb: He was balancing on one foot

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): Balance, Libra, Libra the Balance, Libra the Scales, balance, balance wheel, correspondence, counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equaliser, equalizer, equilibrate, equilibrise, equilibrium, equilibrize, equipoise, poise, proportion, proportionality, remainder, residual, residue, residuum, rest, symmetricalness, symmetry

Antonyms(反意語): asymmetry, imbalance, unbalance

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): account, be, equality, equilibrium, hold, match, part, person, placement, remainder, scale, spatial property, structure, weight, wheel

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abator, abjurer, abomination, abound, abstainer, accept, account, account for, achiever, acquaintance, acquirer, act, active, actor, adjudicator, admirer, adoptee, adult, adventurer, adversary, advisee, advocate, affiant, african, agnostic, airdock, alignment, altar, amateur, amerindian, ancient, anomaly, answer, anti, anti-american, appear, applicant, appointee, appreciator, apprehender, aquarius, arcade, arch, archaist, area, aries, arrogator, assessee, asthmatic, asymmetry, authority, autodidact, baby boomer, baby buster, bad guy, bad person, bake, balance, balance of power, balance wheel, balcony, baldhead, balker, bascule, basis, bather, be well, beard, beat, bedfellow, begin, behave, belong, bereaved, best, bicycle wheel, birth, biter, black, blogger, blond, bluecoat, boarding, bob, body, bodybuilder, bomber, breathe, bridge, brunet, buffing wheel, building, building complex, bullfighter, buster, butt, buy, cancer, candidate, capitalist, capricorn, captor, car wheel, cartwheel, case, cashier, catchment, celebrant, censor, chameleon, changer, charge, charmer, child, chutzpanik, clean, closer, clumsy person, cohere, coil, collector, colonnade, color-blind person, column, columniation, combatant, come in for, come in handy, commoner, communicator, compact, compare, complexifier, composition, compound, compulsive, computer user, confuse, connect, consist, contain, contemplative, contestant, continue, convert, copycat, corner, cost, count, counter, counterterrorist, counterweight, cover, coward, crawler, creator, creature, credit, creditor, cripple, cross, cut, cut across, daisy print wheel, dancer, dead person, deaf person, deathtrap, debaser, debit, debtor, deck, defecator, defensive structure, delayer, deliverer, demander, depend, deserve, detail, dieter, differentiator, dimensionality, directionality, disagree, disentangler, disputant, dissenter, distribute, diverge, divider, domestic partner, door, double, draw, dresser, dribbler, driving wheel, drug user, dynamic balance, dyslectic, ectomorph, effecter, elizabethan, emotional person, end, endomorph, engineer, enjoyer, enrollee, entablature, entertainer, equatability, equivalence, erection, establishment, ethnic, evenness, experimenter, expert, explorer, extrovert, face, faddist, fall, faller, false bottom, fastener, feel, female, fenestration, fiduciary, figure, first-rater, fit, floor, follower, formation, fountain, free agent, friend, fugitive, gainer, gambler, gape, gatekeeper, gatherer, gear, gemini, gentile, go, good guy, good person, granter, gravitate, greeter, grinding wheel, grinner, groaner, grunter, guesser, guide, hail, handicapped person, handwheel, hang, hater, head, heterosexual, hold, homeostasis, homosexual, homunculus, honeycomb, hoodoo, hope, hoper, house of cards, housing, huddler, hugger, hull, hum, immune, impend, incarnate, individualist, inhabitant, innocent, insured, intellectual, interpreter, introvert, iridesce, isometry, isostasy, item, jat, jew, jewel, jumble, jumper, jungle gym, junior, juvenile, kill, killer, kink, kneeler, knocker, knower, lamination, landing, language unit, large person, latin, laugher, leader, learner, left-hander, lend, leo, let go, libra, lie, life, lightning rod, linguist, literate, litter, liver, load, loiter, longer, look, lookout, loose cannon, loved one, lover, lubricate, machine, mailer, make, make sense, makeweight, malcontent, male, man, man jack, manipulator, married, masonry, masturbator, measure, measurer, member, memorial, mesomorph, mestizo, middlebrow, miracle man, misalignment, misogamist, mixed-blood, modern, money handler, monolingual, mope, mother hen, mound, mouse, mutilator, namer, namesake, nash equilibrium, national, native, neglecter, neighbor, neutral, nondescript, nonmember, nonparticipant, nonpartisan, nonperson, nonreligious person, nonresident, nonsmoker, nonworker, nosewheel, nude, nurser, object, obliqueness, obstruction, occultist, optimist, orphan, osculate, ostrich, ouster, outcaste, outdoorsman, overbalance, owe, owner, paddlewheel, pamperer, pansexual, paperweight, pardoner, partition, partner, party, passer, pay, peer, perceiver, percher, person of color, personage, personification, perspirer, philosopher, picker, piggyback, pinwheel, pisces, pisser, planner, platform, player, point, poise, porch, post and lintel, posturer, potter’s wheel, powderer, precursor, prefab, preserver, press, primitive, projection, promise, proportion, propositus, prove, public relations person, public works, pursuer, pussycat, put out, quarter, quitter, radical, rage, ramification, range, rank, ratchet wheel, rate, realist, recognize, rectifier, redhead, registrant, relate, relative, reliever, religious person, remain, remainder, repeater, represent, rescuer, rest, rester, restrainer, retard, revenant, rich person, right-hander, riser, roller, romper, roulette, roundhead, rowel, ruler, run, run into, rusher, rut, sagittarius, sail, scientist, scorpio, scratcher, second-rater, seeder, seeker, seem, seethe, segregate, self, sell, sensualist, sentimentalist, set-back, sex object, sex symbol, shaker, shape, shelter, shine, shoebox, showman, signboard, signer, simpleton, sinker, six-footer, skidder, slav, slave, sleepyhead, sling, sloucher, small person, smasher, smiler, sneezer, sniffer, sniffler, snuffer, snuffler, socializer, sort, sounding board, spacing, sparkle, specify, sphinx, spitter, sport, sprawler, sprocket, spurner, squat, squinter, stadium, stagnate, stand, stand by, stay, stick, stifler, stigmatic, stink, stoop, stooper, stranger, struggler, subject, subpart, substance, subtend, suck, suffer, suit, supernumerary, superstructure, supporting structure, surrenderer, survivalist, survivor, suspect, swim, swing, symmetry, tagger, tandem, tapper, taurus, tempter, tend, termer, terror, test, testator, thermal equilibrium, thin person, third-rater, thrower, tiger, total, totemist, toucher, tower, transept, transfer, translate, transplant, transsexual, transvestite, traveler, trestlework, trier, trim, trundle, turner, tyrant, underlie, undoer, unfortunate, unit, unskilled person, unwelcome person, user, vanisher, vaulting, victim, victorian, virgo, visionary, visually impaired person, wagon wheel, waiter, waker, walk-in, want, wanter, ward, warrior, wash, watcher, waterwheel, ways, weakling, weasel, weighbridge, wellhead, white, wiggler, wind, wind tunnel, winker, withholder, witness, work, worker, worldling, yawner

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): balance of trade, beam balance, bilaterality, cancel, carry-over, compensate, compensating balance, complement, conformation, electrolyte balance, electronic balance, invisible balance, juggle, leftover, microbalance, nitrogen balance, offset, radial symmetry, regularity, sash weight, spring balance, steelyard, symmetry, tare, tension, trial balance, trim

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: balance, balancer, counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equalise, equalize, equilibrate, equilibrium, equilibrize, poise, proportion, remain, remainder, residual, residuary, symmetric, symmetrical, symmetrise, symmetrize

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: technology

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

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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): Atomic Habits, Holes

Movies(映画): Finding Nemo, Frozen, The Bad Guys

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