initiate

/ɪˈnɪʃ.i.eɪt/

意味: 新入り、入会者

例文: Lena welcomed the new initiate with cookies.
　　  レナはクッキーで新入りを歓迎した。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: initiate a project(プロジェクトを開始する), initiate a conversation(会話を始める), initiate a process(プロセスを開始する)

定義: 何かを始めることや、最初のステップを踏むことを意味します。新しい活動や計画を始めるときに使われます。例えば、会話を始めたり、プロジェクトを開始したりすることです。

initiateは約200,000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: someone new to a field or activity
Noun: someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field
Noun: people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity
Verb: bring into being
Verb: take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of
Verb: accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite
Verb: bring up a topic for discussion
Verb: set in motion, start an event or prepare the way for

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

We will initiate the project next Monday.(私たちは来週の月曜日にプロジェクトを開始します。)
She decided to initiate the training program early.(彼女はトレーニングプログラムを早めに始めることに決めました。)
They initiate new members with a special ceremony.(彼らは特別な儀式で新メンバーを迎え入れます。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: it is very familiar to the initiate
Verb: He initiated a new program
Verb: Start a foundation
Verb: This South African surgeon pioneered heart transplants
Verb: African men are initiated when they reach puberty
Verb: Hitler’s attack on Poland led up to World War II

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): beginner, broach, enlightened, induct, initiate, lead up, learned person, novice, originate, pioneer, pundit, savant, start, tiro, tyro

Antonyms(反意語): uninitiate

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): admit, cause, hash out, make, originate, people, scholar, unskilled person

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): academician, age group, alumnus, ancients, arabist, arouse, assemble, baffled, bandy, bandy about, bear, beat, beget, bibliographer, bibliophile, blast, blind, blood, bootblack, brave, bring, broach, build, business people, cabalist, cause, chop, choreograph, chosen people, class, clear, cleave, clientele, coevals, compose, confer, consider, construct, copy, create, create by mental act, create from raw material, create verbally, cut, damned, dead, deaf, debate, defeated, derive, determine, direct, disabled, distill, doctor, doomed, effect, enemy, engender, episcopacy, establish, facilitate, film, film-make, folk, form, free, froth, generate, give, go back, goliard, grind, grunt, hack, historian, homebound, humanist, ignoramus, impel, incompetent, incorporate, initiate, institute, involve, islamist, lay down, lead up, licentiate, living, lobby, make, manufacture, masorete, master, mentally retarded, migration, moderate, motivate, mujtihad, musicologist, nation, nationality, negociate, network army, novice, occasion, offset, originate, peanut gallery, pedant, peoples, philomath, philosopher, pocket, poor people, populace, population, postdoc, powwow, prepare, press, produce, provoke, puncture, put on, ragpicker, raise, rank and file, re-create, reader, readmit, realize, recreate, rede, regenerate, renaissance man, reproduce, retreated, rich people, salutatorian, scholiast, schoolman, scrape, set, shakespearian, short-circuit, sick, sinologist, smart money, strike, style, theologian, thrash out, timid, tinkerer, track, tradespeople, twine, unconfessed, unemployed people, uninitiate, valedictorian, vedist, womankind, wounded

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): abecedarian, apprentice, cover, cub, establish, go back, introduce, landlubber, lead up, mount, newcomer, organize, polymath, set, stage, strike up, tenderfoot, trainee, trip, undertake

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: begin, enlightened, inductee, induction, initiate, initiation, initiative, initiator, initiatory, origin, origination, originative, originator, pioneer, start, starter

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞): in

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

英検準1級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Holes

Movies(映画): The Bad Guys

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: