English Dictionary

panic

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpænɪk/

名詞

不可算名詞 略語 別表記 可算名詞 アメリカ英語 口語

(uncountable) Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.

日本語の意味

大きな恐怖や強烈な不安感 / 群衆や動物集団にみられる全体的なパニック状態や混乱 / 突然の恐怖により引き起こされる動揺や混乱

When the alarms blared, panic spread through the stadium, sending thousands rushing for the exits.

警報が鳴り響くと、会場には圧倒的な恐怖が広がり、何千人もの観客が出口へ一斉に殺到した。

意味（1）

(uncountable) Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.

She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

意味（2）

(countable, computing) Short for kernel panic (“on Unix-derived operating systems: an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error”); (by extension) any computer system crash.

If your new driver has an error that panics the system when you load the driver, then the system will panic again when it tries to reboot after the panic. The system will continue the cycle of panic, reboot, and panic as it attempts to reload the faulty driver every time it reboots after panic.

意味（3）

(countable, economics, finance) A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline.

I thought you inherited your money. / I did, old sport, he said automatically, but I lost most of it in the big panic—the panic of the war.

意味（4）

(countable, US, originally theater, colloquial) A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream.

panics （ plural ）