cause

/kɔːz/

意味: 原因、大義

例文: Lena marched for the noble cause of naps.
　　  レナが昼寝の権利を求めて行進した。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: root cause(根本原因), cause and effect(原因と結果), main cause(主な原因)

定義: 何かが起こる理由や原因を指します。何かを引き起こす力や影響を持つものです。

causeは約4,000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: events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something
Noun: a justification for something existing or happening
Noun: a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
Noun: any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results
Noun: a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy
Verb: give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally
Verb: cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

Lack of sleep can cause significant health issues over time.(睡眠不足は時間が経つにつれて重大な健康問題を引き起こす可能性があります。)
This mess is all your fault; you always cause trouble!(この散らかりは全部あなたのせいだ；いつもトラブルを引き起こす！)
The committee aims to understand the underlying cause of the problem.(委員会は問題の根本的な原因を理解することを目指しています。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: they are trying to determine the cause of the crash
Noun: he had no cause to complain
Noun: they had good reason to rejoice
Noun: he supported populist campaigns
Noun: they worked in the cause of world peace
Noun: the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant
Noun: the movement to end slavery
Noun: contributed to the war effort
Noun: the family brought suit against the landlord
Verb: cause a commotion
Verb: make a stir
Verb: cause an accident
Verb: The ads induced me to buy a VCR
Verb: My children finally got me to buy a computer
Verb: My wife made me buy a new sofa

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): campaign, case, causa, causal agency, causal agent, cause, crusade, do, drive, effort, get, grounds, have, induce, lawsuit, make, movement, reason, stimulate, suit

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): justification, make, origin, physical entity, proceeding, venture

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): adoption, appeal, arouse, assemble, bankruptcy, bear, beat, beget, blast, bring, build, campaign, causal agent, cause, chop, choreograph, clear, cleave, compose, construct, copy, create, create by mental act, create from raw material, create verbally, cut, defense, derive, direct, distill, emanation, establish, experiment, film, film-make, foreclosure, form, froth, generate, germination, give, grind, hearing, incorporate, institute, intervention, joint venture, lawsuit, lay down, legal action, litigation, manufacture, matter, naturalization, object, offset, originate, preliminary, prepare, press, procedure, process, produce, puncture, put on, raise, re-create, realize, receivership, recreate, regenerate, reproduce, review, risk, sally, scrape, short-circuit, strike, style, substance, thing, track, trial, twine

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): advertising campaign, agent, antecedent, anti-war movement, bring, campaigning, catalyst, cause of death, charm campaign, civil suit, class action, compel, consumerism, countersuit, criminal suit, danger, decide, destiny, determine, deus ex machina, effect, encourage, engender, engine, etiology, facilitate, factor, feminist movement, first cause, fund-raising campaign, gay liberation movement, impel, initiate, lead, let, lost cause, make, moot, motivate, mutagenesis, nature, occasion, operator, paternity suit, person, persuade, power, producer, prompt, provoke, reform, solicit, suborn, supernatural, theurgy, vital principle, war, youth movement

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: campaign, causal, causation, causative, cause, crusade, drive, inducement, inducer, inducing, inducive, induction, stimulation, stimulus, sue

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: descriptive, online

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検準2級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Atomic Habits, 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: