Subordinateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

Adjective and Noun

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sə-bôʹdĭ-nət, IPA: /səˈbɔːdɪnət/
• (General American, Canada) enPR: sə-bôrʹdĭ-nət, IPA: /səˈbɔɹdɪnət/
• (Australian) IPA: /səˈboːdɪnət/

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sə-bôʹdĭ-nāt, IPA: /səˈbɔːdɪneɪt/
• (General American, Canada) enPR: sə-bôrʹdĭ-nāt, IPA: /səˈbɔɹdɪneɪt/
• (Australian) IPA: /səˈboːdɪnæɪt/

形容詞

subordinate (comparative more subordinate, superlative most subordinate)

1. Placed in a lower class, rank, or position.

   Synonyms: lesser, subaltern, petty

   Antonyms: superior, superordinate

   • 1695, John Woodward, “(please specify the page)”, in An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth: And Terrestrial Bodies, Especially Minerals: […], London: […] Ric[hard] Wilkin […], →OCLC:

     The several kinds […] and subordinate species of each are easily known.

2. Submissive or inferior to, or controlled by authority.

   Antonym: insubordinate

   • November 9, 1662, Robert South, Of the Creation of Man in the Image of God

     It was subordinate, not enslaved, to the understanding.

   • 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 245:

     However, his main point is clearly that the political organization should be subordinate to the real aspirations of the working class and should not be allowed to claim that it expresses those aspirations by virtue of its own 'scientific' omniscience, regardless of what the empirical 'masses' actually think.

3. (grammar, of a clause, not comparable) dependent on and either modifying or complementing the main clause

   Synonym: dependent

   Antonyms: independent, main

   In the sentence “The barbecue finished before John arrived”, the subordinate clause “before John arrived” specifies the time of the main clause, “The barbecue finished”.

4. Descending in a regular series.

派生語

名詞

subordinate (plural subordinates)

1. (countable) One who is subordinate.

   Synonyms: inferior, junior, report, subaltern, underling, understrapper

   Antonyms: boss, commander, leader, manager, superior, superordinate, supervisor

2. A hyponym.

   Antonyms: hypernym, hyperonym, superordinate

動詞

subordinate (third-person singular simple present subordinates, present participle subordinating, simple past and past participle subordinated)

1. (transitive) To make subservient or secondary.
   1. (transitive, grammar) To embed (a clause) into another clause that is the main one.

      Hypernym: complementize

      Coordinate term: coordinate

   2. (transitive, finance) To make of lower priority in order of payment in bankruptcy.
2. (transitive) To treat (someone) as of less value or importance.

   Synonyms: belittle, denigrate

派生語

参考

• inferior

アナグラム

• turbinadoes

動詞

subōrdināte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of subōrdinō