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語源

From hypothesis +‎ -ize.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /haɪˈpɒθ.ɪ.saɪz/, /hɪˈpɒθ.ɪ.saɪz/, /həˈpɒθ.ɪ.saɪz/, /-ə.saɪz/
• (General American, dialects of Canada) IPA: /haɪˈpɑ.θəˌsaɪz/, (Canadian raising) [hʌɪˈpɑ.θəˌsaɪz]
• (Canada, dialects of the 米国発音) IPA: /haɪˈpɒθ.əˌsaɪz/, (Canadian raising) [hʌɪˈpɒθ.əˌsaɪz]
• (General Australian) IPA: /hɑeˈpɔθ.ə.sɑez/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /haɪˈpɒθ.ə.saɪz/, [hɑe̯ˈpɔ̟θ.ə.sɑe̯z]

動詞

hypothesize (third-person singular simple present hypothesizes, present participle hypothesizing, simple past and past participle hypothesized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. (ambitransitive) To assume or assert tentatively on uncertain grounds.

   Synonyms: hypotheticate, guess; see also Thesaurus:suppose

   • 1996, Public Health Reports‎, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Health Resources Administration:

     When hormones signal breast cells to divide more rapidly, scientists hypothesize, they increase breast cancer risk by causing precancerous or cancerous cells to multiply.

   • 2000, Stephen F. Knack, Social Capital and the Quality of Government: Evidence from the United States, page 11:

     Census response is thus a reasonable proxy for civicminded attitudes and cooperation that are hypothesized to improve governmental performance.

   • 2007, John Goldingay, David Payne, Isaiah 40-55 Vol 2: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary‎, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN:

     Dahood hypothesizes an occurrence of a verb rihham ('to conceive, enwomb')

   • 2007 December 29, Sanford Goldberg, “Must Differences in Cognitive Value be Transparent?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI:

     I don’t dispute that some cases of this sort—involving a subject who differentially doubts what, pretheoretically, we would take to be one and the same thought-content, entertained twice—might be best described by hypothesizing a difference in content.

派生語

関連する語

• hypothetical
• hypothesizable

Further reading

• “hypothesize”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.