beginning

/bɪˈɡɪnɪŋ/

意味: 始まり

例文: June said, “Every pancake has a beginning.”
　　  ジューンは「パンケーキにも始まりがある」と言った。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: new beginning(新しい始まり), beginning stages(初期段階), beginning of the year(年の始まり)

定義: 何かが始まる最初の部分や段階のことを指します。物事のスタート地点や初めの時期を表現する際に使われます。

beginningは約10,000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: the event consisting of the start of something
Noun: the time at which something is supposed to begin
Noun: the first part or section of something
Noun: the place where something begins, where it springs into being
Noun: the act of starting something
Verb: take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
Verb: have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
Verb: set in motion, cause to start
Verb: begin to speak or say; he began
Verb: be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series
Verb: have a beginning, of a temporal event
Verb: have a beginning characterized in some specified way
Verb: begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
Verb: achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative
Verb: begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language
Adjective: serving to begin

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb, Adjective

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The beginning of spring brings vibrant colors to the landscape.(春の始まりは風景に鮮やかな色をもたらします。)
I’m excited about the beginning of our new adventure together!(新しい冒険の始まりにワクワクしています！)
At the beginning of the conference, the keynote speaker inspired everyone present.(会議の始めに、基調講演者が出席者全員を感動させました。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: the beginning of the war
Noun: they got an early start
Noun: she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her
Noun: `It was a dark and stormy night’ is a hackneyed beginning for a story
Noun: the Italian beginning of the Renaissance
Noun: Jupiter was the origin of the radiation
Noun: Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River
Noun: communism’s Russian root
Noun: he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations
Verb: We began working at dawn
Verb: Who will start?
Verb: Get working as soon as the sun rises!
Verb: The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia
Verb: He began early in the day
Verb: Let’s get down to work now
Verb: The DMZ begins right over the hill
Verb: The second movement begins after the Allegro
Verb: Prices for these homes start at $250,000
Verb: The U.S. started a war in the Middle East
Verb: The Iraqis began hostilities
Verb: begin a new chapter in your life
Verb: Now listen, friends,
Verb: The number `one’ begins the sequence
Verb: A terrible murder begins the novel
Verb: The convocation ceremony officially begins the semester
Verb: WW II began in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland
Verb: The company’s Asia tour begins next month
Verb: The novel begins with a murder
Verb: My property begins with the three maple trees
Verb: Her day begins with a workout
Verb: The semester begins with a convocation ceremony
Verb: begin a cigar
Verb: She started the soup while it was still hot
Verb: We started physics in 10th grade
Verb: This economic measure doesn’t even begin to deal with the problem of inflation
Verb: You cannot even begin to understand the problem we had to deal with during the war
Verb: She began Russian at an early age
Verb: We started French in fourth grade
Adjective: the beginning canto of the poem
Adjective: the first verse

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): begin, beginning, commence, commencement, first, get, get down, get-go, kickoff, lead off, offset, origin, outset, root, rootage, set about, set out, showtime, source, start, start out, starting time

Antonyms(反意語): end, ending, finish, middle

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): achieve, act, be, change of state, happening, part, point, talk

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abound, abutment, accept, accident, accompaniment, account, account for, act, act on, aeration, alternate, answer, antagonize, anticipate, antinode, appear, appearance, arousal, arrival time, attack, avalanche, average, babble, bake, balance, bark, bay, be well, beat, beautification, begin, beginning, behave, belong, blind spot, blubber, blurt out, boom, breathe, bumble, buy, cackle, case, celestial point, center, change, change of color, chatter, chew, chokepoint, chukker, clean, coact, cohere, collapse, come close, come in for, come in handy, come to, come to the fore, compact, compare, compass, component, condescend, confuse, connect, consist, contact, contain, continue, convergence, cooking, cope, corner, cost, count, court, cover, crash, create, crossing, culminate, cut, cut across, dally, dare, date, deadline, deal, deck, decoration, defoliation, degradation, deliver, departure time, depend, deserve, destiny, disagree, disappearance, discharge, dispatch, distance, distribute, diverge, do well, draw, drone, effect, egotrip, end, ending, enthuse, episode, error, evade, eventuality, exert, experience, failure, fall, feel, figure, final period, finish, finish up, fire, first period, fit, flash, focus, force, frame, game, gape, generalize, geographic point, get around to, go, go ahead, go off half-cocked, gravitate, ground zero, guard, gulp, hail, half, hang, head, high point, hilum, hiss, hold, hoodoo, hot spot, hum, impend, improvement, incarnate, incident, infusion, inning, interact, interrupt, interruption, iridesce, jumble, juncture, kill, lend, let go, lie, lip off, litter, loiter, look, lord it over, lubricate, make, make a point, make bold, make sense, maneuver, mcburney’s point, measure, meddling, midair, middle, midterm, military position, miracle, misbehave, moment, mope, movement, mumble, murmur, navel, news event, node, nullification, object, one-off, open up, osculate, outbreak, outburst, over, owe, participate, partner, passage, pay, peep, perform, period, periodic event, perpetrate, phase, play, play it by ear, point, position, press, pressure point, promise, prosecute, prove, punctum, put out, quarter, race, rage, rampage, range, rank, rant, rasp, rate, reach, react, read, reciprocate, recognize, relate, remain, repeat, represent, rest, retard, reversal, reverse, reward, run, run into, run-time, rush, rut, satisfice, score, seasoning, second period, seem, seethe, sell, set about, shine, shout, show time, sing, slur, snap, sneak, snivel, soiling, sound, sparkle, speak in tongues, speak up, specialization, specify, spiritualization, squat, stagnate, stampede, stand, stand by, stay, stick, stink, subtend, success, suck, suffer, suit, supervention, surprise, swallow, swim, swing, take, take care, take time by the forelock, talk of, tend, term, termination, test, then, thing, tone, topographic point, total, transfer, translate, transplant, treat, trichion, trim, troll, trouble, try, turn, underlie, union, use, vanishing point, verbalize, vocalize, volunteer, wait, wangle, want, wash, wetting, whiff, whisper, wind, wonder, woo, work, worsening, yack

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): activation, attack, auspicate, birth, birthplace, break in, break out, bud, casus belli, come on, constitution, creation, dawn, derivation, embark, emergence, erupt, face-off, fall, first step, fountainhead, genesis, get cracking, get to, ground floor, groundbreaking, headwater, home, housing start, icebreaker, inaugurate, inauguration, incipiency, initiation, installation, introduction, jump ball, jump off, jumping-off place, jumpstart, kickoff, origin, originate, plunge, point source, recommence, resumption, scrum, set in, set off, spring, springboard, start, startup, strike out, terminus a quo, threshold, trail head, wellhead

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: begin, beginner, beginning, commence, commencement, kick off, originate, root, start, starter

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): ing

Exam Level

高校レベル

英検3級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Holes

Movies(映画): Big Hero 6

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

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