English Dictionary

token

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈtəʊkən/

名詞

比喩的用法 廃用 時々

Something serving as an expression of something else. / A keepsake. / A piece of stamped metal or plastic, etc., used as a substitute for money; a voucher that can be exchanged for goods or services.

日本語の意味

何かの象徴・表現として機能するもの / 記念品 / 金銭の代替として使用される、刻印された金属やプラスチック製の物、または商品やサービスと交換可能な引換券

He kept the old coin as a token of their friendship.

彼は友情の象徴としてその古い硬貨を大切に保管していた。

意味（1）

Something serving as an expression of something else.

According to the Bible, the rainbow is a token of God's covenant with Noah.

意味（2）

A keepsake.

Please accept this bustier as a token of our time together.

意味（3）

A piece of stamped metal or plastic, etc., used as a substitute for money; a voucher that can be exchanged for goods or services.

Subway tokens are being replaced by magnetic cards.

意味（4）

A small physical object, often designed to give the appearance of a common thing, used to represent a person or character in a board game or other situation.

Everyone pick a token (hat, wheelbarrow, thimble, etc.) and place it on the Start square.

意味（5）

A minor attempt for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement.

意味（6）

A member of a group of people that is included within a larger group to comply with a legal or social requirement.

New York Philharmonic has a token of one Negro. The Pittsburgh Symphony ranks high with three tokens. Cleveland has one, and other major symphony orchestras such as Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago still say, Get back!

意味（7）

(obsolete, sometimes figuratively) Evidence, proof; a confirming detail; physical trace, mark, footprint.

意味（8）

Support for a belief; grounds for an opinion.

意味（9）

An extraordinary event serving as evidence of supernatural power.

意味（10）

An object or disclosure to attest or authenticate the bearer or an instruction.

意味（11）

A seal guaranteeing the quality of an item.

意味（12）

Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith.

Say, by this token, I desire his company.

意味（13）

A tally.

意味（14）

(philosophy) A particular thing to which a concept applies.

意味（15）

(computing) An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing.

Coordinate term: placeholder

意味（16）

(computing) A conceptual object that can be possessed by a computer, process, etc. in order to regulate a turn-taking system such as a token ring network.

意味（17）

(computing) A meaningless placeholder used as a substitute for sensitive data.

意味（18）

(grammar) A lexeme; a basic, grammatically indivisible unit of a language such as a keyword, operator or identifier.

意味（19）

(corpus linguistics) A single example of a certain word in a text or corpus.

However, note the token ontology, ranked the 15ᵗʰ most frequent token in our ontology corpus, occurs 1940 times out of 336,311 tokens, but ontology only occurs 52 times in the BNC – the ratio of two relative frequencies is 10895.

意味（20）

(medicine) A characteristic sign of a disease or of a bodily disorder, a symptom; a sign of a bodily condition, recovery, or health.

意味（21）

(medicine, obsolete) A livid spot upon the body, indicating, or supposed to indicate, the approach of death.

Like the fearful tokens of the plague, Are mere fore-runners of their ends.

意味（22）

(printing) Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.

意味（23）

(mining) A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sends one of these with each corf or tub he has hewn.

But the coal-owner refuses to pay for a corf or tub simply on the ground that it contains too little weight, or that it contains “softs” instead of all “hards,”—a refusal technically known by its symbol as “hanging the motties," or by a bolder metaphor as “hanging the hutches,”—the “motties,” or tokens peculliar to the collier who sends up the corf. being hung up, if satisfactory, on the proper “motty-board peg,” if not so, on the “death-board peg;” and it is asserted that “at some collieries as many as 60 or 70 each day, worth to the collier from 6d. to 8. each, are taken from them in this manner.”

意味（24）

(mining) A thin bed of coal indicating the existence of a thicker seam at no great distance.

意味（25）

(rail transport) A physical object used for exchange between drivers and signalmen on single track lines.

Although splitting a single-line section into two might seem a simple solution, Williams adds that creating another location where drivers have to get out of the cab and walk to a cabinet to exchange tokens before a train can proceed will further slow down the service: There must be a better option in the 21st century than putting in an additional token machine.

意味（26）

(weaving) In a loom, a colored signal to show the weaver which shuttle to use.

意味（27）

(Church of Scotland) A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.

tokens （ plural ）