English Dictionary

super

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈs(j)uːpə(ɹ)/

名詞

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(Australia, New Zealand, informal) Short for superannuation. / Short for supercomputer. / (comics, slang) Short for superhero. / (beekeeping) Short for superhive.

日本語の意味

(オーストラリア、ニュージーランド、口語）「superannuation（スーパーアニュエーション）」の略。 / 「supercomputer（スーパーコンピュータ）」の略。 / （コミック、スラング）「superhero（スーパーヒーロー）」の略。 / （養蜂）「superhive（スーパーハイブ）」の略。

I'm checking my super balance before I decide to invest in property.

不動産に投資するか決める前に、退職年金の残高を確認しています。

意味（1）

(Australia, New Zealand, informal) Short for superannuation.

Jane looked forward to collecting a large super payout when she retired.

意味（2）

Short for supercomputer.

The performances and cost ranges of three classes of commercial supercomputers are given in Table 2.1. The full-scale supers are the most expensive class, represented by Cray, ETA, and Fujitsu systems, for example.

意味（3）

(comics, slang) Short for superhero.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:super.

意味（4）

(beekeeping) Short for superhive.

There may be thirty to fifty supers in every outyard, and we have only about half an hour to get them off the hives, stacked and covered before the bees get really cross about what we are doing.

意味（5）

(informal, US) Short for superintendent, especially, a building's resident manager (sometimes clarified as “building super”).

意味（6）

(neologism) Short for supernaturalist, especially as distinguished from bright.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:super.

意味（7）

Short for supernumerary; (theater) specifically, a supernumerary actor.

For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.

意味（8）

Short for supertanker.

That is a lot of ship, about the size of big tankers before they grew so rapidly to become supers, mammoths and oilbergs.

意味（9）

Short for supervisor.

supers （ plural ）