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語源

A combination of Latin sonus (“sound”) and sonny (“boy”, diminutive).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsəʊni/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈsoʊni/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈsəʉni/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈsɐʉni/
• 韻: -əʊni

固有名詞

Sony

1. (trademark) An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan. (Should we delete this sense?)
   • 1993, Martha Gever, Pratibha Parmar, John Greyson, Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video, Routledge, →ISBN, page 76:

     he mostly makes videos—virtually reinventing the diary form with his Sony 8 scrapbook.

   • 2002, Alexander J. Morin, Classical Music: The Listener's Companion, Backbeat Books, →ISBN, page 98:

     Bernstein always understood this symphony, and his Sony recording was for many years one of the best.

   • 2003, Nadine Condon, Hot Hits, Cheap Demos: The Real-World Guide to Music Business Success, Backbeat Books, →ISBN, page 34:

     Gary’s roster currently has Tritt and two new Sony artists soon to be hugely famous, JEB and Christy Sutherland.

   • 2006, Joseph Finder, Killer Instinct, St. Martin's Press,, →ISBN, page 5:

     Most of the e-mails were blowback from the departure of our divisional vice president, Crawford, who’d just jumped ship to Sony.

   • 2021 February 1, Rishi Iyengar, “Google will stop making video games for its Stadia platform”, in CNN Business‎:

     Jade Raymond, the executive in charge of SG&E who previously worked at Sony (SNE), Electronic Arts (EA) and Ubisoft (UBSFF), will leave Google (GOOG) to “pursue other opportunities,” Harrison added.

派生語

名詞

Sony (plural Sonys)

1. A device produced by Sony.
   • 1980, Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the Bus, Ballantine Books,, →ISBN, page 16:

     Connie Chung, the pretty Chinese CBS correspondent, occupied the room next to mine at the Hyatt House and she was always back by midnight, reciting a final sixty-second radio spot into her Sony or absorbing one last press release before getting a good night’s sleep.

   • 1990, Peter Hathaway Capstick, Death in a Lonely Land: More Hunting, Fishing, and Shooting on Five Continents, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 255:

     It’s not clear what the witch doctors are doing, but the scientists have been wandering the riverbank with their Sonys or Hitachis, playing the recorded chirpings of newly hatched crocodiles in hopes of either stirring maternal instinct in the (almost surely) female man-eater or tempting her to infanticidal cannibalism, which would be far more likely.

   • 1995, Victor J. Ramraj, Concert of Voices: An Anthology of World Writing in English, Broadview Press, →ISBN, page 297:

     My memoirs. At night I leave a Sony by my bed. Night is the best time for remembering.

   • 1999, Peter Cook, Archigram, Princeton Architectural Press,, →ISBN, page 113:

     The common threads that exist between the fisherman and his Sony and the project above. Robert Smithson's 'Incidents of mirror travel in the Yucatan' are important.

   • 2001, Carl Hiaasen, edited by Diane Stevenson, Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, published 2002, →ISBN, page 18:

     My personal choice would be to drag these vultures from their rental cars and gently disassemble their Sonys.

   • 2010, Bill Sharpsteen, Dirty Water: One Man’s Fight to Clean Up One of the World’s Most Polluted Bays, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 54:

     He also figured more and more people got their current events from television, and so he put most of his effort into soliciting the unwashed masses who sat bug-eyed before their Sonys.

Further reading

• Sony on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Noys, Yons, nosy, noys, syno, syon