pinch

/pɪntʃ/

意味: つまみ、ひとつまみ

例文: A pinch of tea leaves fixed everything.
　　  茶葉ひとつまみで全てが解決した。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: pinch of salt(ひとつまみの塩), pinch nerve(神経を圧迫する), pinch hitter(代打者)

定義: 指先でつまむこと、またはつまんで引っ張ること。痛みを感じるほど強くつまむことも含まれる。料理では、少量の調味料を指でつまんで加えることを指す。困難な状況や不足を表すこともある。

pinch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: a painful or straitened circumstance
Noun: an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed
Noun: a slight but appreciable amount
Noun: a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
Noun: a small sharp bite or snip
Noun: a squeeze with the fingers
Noun: the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
Verb: squeeze tightly between the fingers
Verb: make ridges into by pinching together
Verb: make off with belongings of others
Verb: cut the top off
Verb: irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

I felt a pinch on my arm.(腕に軽くつねられた。)
She had to pinch the dough to shape it.(彼女は生地をつまんで形を整えた。)
He’s in a pinch and needs help quickly.(彼は困っていてすぐ助けが必要だ。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: the pinch of the recession
Noun: this dish could use a touch of garlic
Noun: he never knew what to do in an emergency
Noun: the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar
Verb: He pinched her behind
Verb: She squeezed the bottle
Verb: top trees and bushes
Verb: smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth
Verb: the pain is as if sharp points pinch your back

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): abstract, apprehension, arrest, cabbage, catch, collar, crimp, emergency, exigency, filch, hint, hook, jot, lift, mite, nip, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, soupcon, speck, squeeze, swipe, taking into custody, tinge, top, touch, tweak, tweet, twinge, twitch, vellicate

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): bite, capture, clip, crisis, difficulty, fold, grip, injury, irritate, small indefinite quantity, snip, squeeze, steal

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): apprehension, birth trauma, bitch, bite, blast trauma, bleeding, blunt trauma, brain damage, bruise, bump, burglarize, burn, collapse, conquest, corrugate, couple, crimp, cross, crumb, dab, disbud, dislocation, dollop, dreg, drop, electric shock, embezzle, emergency, enslavement, expression, extrusion, fix, fracture, frostbite, furrow, hair’s-breadth, handful, hard time, helping, hook, hustle, intravasation, jack, little, loot, minimum, mire, modicum, morsel, munch, nibble, nip, nose, penetrating trauma, pilfer, pinch, pirate, plagiarize, pleat, pocket, poll, predicament, problem, rattrap, rob, ruffle, rupture, rustle, scattering, shear, shoestring, shoplift, shred, shtik, situation, spot, spray, step, sting, strain, stress, tad, taste, top, tot, touch, trace, tuck, urinary hesitancy, usurpation, wale, walk off, wall, whiplash, wound, wrench, wrinkle

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): flute, goose, snuff, tail, tweak

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: apprehend, arrest, cabbage, catch, collar, crimp, emergent, exigent, lifter, nip, nipper, pilferage, pilferer, pinch, squeeze, top, topper, tweak

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: science

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

英検準1級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1

Movies(映画):

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: