nonfishとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

nonfish (not comparable)

1. Not fish, or not relating to fish.

   nonfish meats

   • 1996 S. Opitz, Trophic Interaction in Caribbean Coral Reefs:

     For the construction of nonfish groups one should, as was done for fishes, start from the species level[.]

上位語

• nonanimal

名詞

nonfish (複数形 nonfishes または nonfish)

1. That which is not a fish.

使用する際の注意点

The English word meat in its main modern sense, referring to the flesh of animals used as food, has tended over the centuries to be idiomatically restricted to, and thus to implicitly denote, nonfish animals, such that disjunctive mentions of meat versus fish, or not meat but rather fish, are common (see meat § 使用する際の注意点). Nonetheless, natural language is flexible enough in its variable semantic ontology that the word meat can be extended to comprise fish flesh when a collocation specifies it, such as all meats including fish or meats of both fish and nonfish origin. The desire to restrict the word meat to its nonfish-only sense is a factor that sometimes helps to drive the use of a hypernym, such as protein or proteins, instead, and such hypernymous use can be still more useful once all protein-rich foods, even nonanimal foods (such as nuts または dairy foods または plant-based meat substitutes) are included in a discussion. But this natural ontologic flexibility is similar to that seen with the natural coexistence of the schema of finger versus thumb and that of all fingers including the thumb (with the hypernymous option being all digits including the thumb), as well as the natural coexistence of the schema of car versus truck (in which light trucks are not cars) and that of all cars including light trucks (with hypernym options being all automobiles または all light motor vehicles). Such variable ontology, which human minds handle effortlessly, is of interest to natural language processing by machines because it must be modeled and successfully handled if machines are someday to speak and read human languages reliably with human-like fluency.

上位語

• nonanimal