defense

/dɪˈfɛns/

意味: 防衛、防御

例文: Chair-kun’s defense: “I’m too old.”
　　  チェアくんの防御：「歳だからな。」

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: national defense(国防), self-defense(自己防衛), defense mechanism(防御機構)

定義: 防御や守ることを指します。攻撃から身を守るための行動や手段を意味します。スポーツでは、相手の得点を防ぐための戦術やプレーを指します。法律では、被告が自分を守るために行う弁護活動を指すこともあります。

defense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: (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies
Noun: protection from harm
Noun: (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring
Noun: the justification for some act or belief
Noun: (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Noun: the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947
Noun: the defendant and his legal advisors collectively
Noun: the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions
Noun: an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack
Noun: a structure used to defend against attack
Noun: a defendant’s answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him
Noun: the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The team mounted a strong defense against their opponents’ relentless attacks.(チームは相手の執拗な攻撃に対して強力な守備を展開した。)
In my opinion, a good defense wins championships.(私の意見では、良い守備がチャンピオンシップを勝ち取る。)
The lawyer presented a compelling defense that swayed the jury’s opinion.(弁護士は陪審員の意見を揺さぶる説得力のある弁護を行った。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: they died in the defense of Stalingrad
Noun: they were developed for the defense program
Noun: sanitation is the best defense against disease
Noun: his teams are always good on defense
Noun: he offered a persuasive defense of the theory
Noun: the defense called for a mistrial
Noun: his refutation of the charges was short and persuasive
Noun: in defense he said the other man started it
Noun: he joined the defense against invasion
Noun: the artillery battered down the defenses
Noun: he gave evidence for the defense
Noun: a good boxer needs a good defense
Noun: defense against hurricanes is an urgent problem

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): Defense, Defense Department, Department of Defense, DoD, United States Department of Defense, defence, defence force, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defending team, defense, defense force, defense lawyers, defense mechanism, defense reaction, defense team, defensive measure, defensive structure, demurrer, denial, refutation, vindication

Antonyms(反意語): offence, offense, prosecution

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): answer, collection, due process, executive department, justification, military action, organization, process, protection, psychoanalytic process, structure, team

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): a-team, adhocracy, affiliate, agglomeration, air cover, airdock, alliance, altar, amphibious landing, ana, arcade, arch, area, armamentarium, art collection, asia, association, assortment, aviation, backlog, balance, balcony, bascule, baseball team, basketball team, batch, battery, battle, biota, block, blockade, blue, boarding, body, book, bottle collection, bridge, building, building complex, bunch, bureaucracy, care, catchment, cause, central america, civil defense, class, coil, coin collection, collage, colonnade, column, combination, company, condensation, congregation, content, convoy, corner, corpus, covering, crew, crop, cross, data, deathtrap, defense, defense mechanism, defensive structure, department of agriculture, department of commerce, department of commerce and labor, department of defense, department of education, department of energy, department of health and human services, department of health education and welfare, department of homeland security, department of housing and urban development, department of justice, department of labor, department of state, department of the interior, department of the treasury, department of transportation, department of veterans affairs, deputation, door, electronic warfare, ensemble, entablature, enterprise, erection, escort, establishment, europe, eviction, exhibition, false bottom, fauna, federation, fiefdom, findings, fire brigade, flagging, fleet, flinders, floor, flying squad, football team, force, fountain, free world, galaxy, generally accepted accounting principles, gimmickry, girl scouts, grey, guide, hand, herbarium, hierarchy, hit parade, hit squad, hockey team, honeycomb, host, house of cards, housing, hull, immunization, inoculating, institution, insulation, job lot, judaica, judgment, jungle gym, junior varsity, kludge, lamination, landing, law, library, line of defense, line organization, little-league team, locking, long suit, lookout, machine, mail, major-league team, masonry, mass, memorial, menagerie, minor-league team, momism, mound, musical organization, mythology, navy department, nongovernmental organization, north america, nuclear club, obstruction, offense, oort cloud, pack, package, pantheon, partition, party, patrol, peace corps, petting zoo, pharmacopoeia, pile, planting, platform, plea, police action, police squad, polity, pool, population, porch, post and lintel, powerhouse, prefab, presentment, preservation, proceeding, procession, professional organization, projection, prosecution, public works, quango, refutation, repertoire, repertory, resistance, rogue’s gallery, ruggedization, saber rattling, sail, second string, section, self-defense, set, set-back, shelter, shielding, shoebox, signage, signboard, sleep talking, smithereens, sortie, south america, stadium, stamp collection, statuary, string, sum, superstructure, supporting structure, tammany hall, tenantry, third world, tower, traffic, transept, treasure, treasure trove, trestlework, trinketry, troponymy, union, unit, urim and thummim, varsity, vaulting, vegetation, victoriana, war, war department, wardrobe, waterproofing, ways, wellhead, white house, wind tunnel

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): air defense, alibi, apology, bastion, biological defense, biological warfare defense, chemical defense, cheval-de-frise, compensation, confutation, conversion, deliberate defense, denial, displacement, entrapment, excuse, fortification, fortress, hasty defense, idealization, intellectualization, isolation, line of defense, mining, outwork, projection, rationalization, reaction formation, rebuttal, regression, repression, stand, stronghold, umbrella

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: defend, deny, refute, vindicate

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: general

Grammatical Notes:

countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞): de

Suffixes(接尾辞):

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Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: anger, anticipation, fear, positive