brain

/breɪn/

意味: 脳

例文: ALX-9000 claimed he had a backup brain.
　　  ALX-9000は予備の脳があると主張した。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: brain damage(脳損傷), brain function(脳機能), brain activity(脳活動)

定義: 脳は体の中で考えたり、感じたり、動かしたりするための重要な器官です。頭の中にあり、神経系の中心として働きます。

brain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: that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord
Noun: mental ability
Noun: that which is responsible for one’s thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason
Noun: someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
Noun: the brain of certain animals used as meat
Verb: hit on the head
Verb: kill by smashing someone’s skull

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The brain processes information faster than any computer available today.(脳は今日利用可能などのコンピュータよりも情報を速く処理します。)
Hey, my brain is totally fried after that long meeting!(ああ、長い会議の後で脳が完全に疲れ切っている！)
The intricate structure of the brain remains a profound mystery to scientists.(脳の複雑な構造は科学者にとって深い謎のままです。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: he’s got plenty of brains but no common sense
Noun: his mind wandered
Noun: I couldn’t get his words out of my head
Noun: Mozart was a child genius
Noun: he’s smart but he’s no Einstein

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): Einstein, brain, brainiac, brainpower, encephalon, genius, head, learning ability, mastermind, mental capacity, mentality, mind, nous, psyche, wit

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): cognition, hit, intellectual, intelligence, kill, neural structure, variety meat

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): ability, acuteness, alchemist, anomalist, aphorist, assassinate, attitude, autonomic nervous system, bat, bean, bel esprit, belt, box, brain, brainstem, breadth, brightness, brilliance, buffet, butcher, center, cerebellar hemisphere, cerebellum, cerebral cortex, cerebrum, chitterlings, cingulate gyrus, clap, clever dick, club, cognitive factor, commit suicide, conk, content, cosh, crack, cudgel, cut, decapitate, decimate, decoder, destroy, diencephalon, dismember, dispatch, draw, drown, egghead, electrocute, eliminate, episteme, equivalent, erase, execute, exponent, expositor, exterminate, forebrain, ganglion, geniculate body, genius, get, giblet, haslet, heart, hemisphere, highbrow, hindbrain, hippocampus, history, hook, hypothalamus, impale, inability, information, kick, lam into, lexis, limbic system, liver, lynch, mamillary body, martyr, massacre, medulla oblongata, mental quickness, mentor, midbrain, mind, murder, myelencephalon, neck sweetbread, neencephalon, neutralize, nimbleness, nonverbal intelligence, nucleus, offal, olfactory bulb, overlie, paleencephalon, paleocerebellum, perception, place, poison, pons, pop, practice, precociousness, process, public knowledge, pummel, punch, put away, pyriform area, radiation, reflex arc, saber, sacrifice, sandbag, scholar, shed blood, shoot, shrewdness, skeptic, slam, slug, smack, smash, smite, smother, sock, specifier, spinal cord, stomach sweetbread, stone, strangle, structure, subjectivist, substantia nigra, subthalamus, swat, sweetbread, swipe, synthesist, take off, telencephalon, thalamus, theorist, thinker, thump, tomahawk, tongue, tripe, verbal intelligence, vermis, visionary, vocabulary, whack, wits, wonderer, zap

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): calf’s brain, ego, noddle, prodigy, subconscious mind, tabula rasa, unconscious mind

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: brain, brainy, mental, mind, psychic, psychical

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: medical, psychology, science

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive, emotional

Grammatical Notes:

countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

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, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): Big Hero 6, 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?) No

Emotion Categories: