random — 英語辞典

名詞

1. A roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance.

   用法

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   • 不可算

   例文

   Still take advice ; though counsels, when they fly / At random, sometimes hit most happily.

   O ! many a shaft, at random sent, / Finds mark the archer little meant !

2. Speed, full speed; impetuosity, force.

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   • 可算
   • 廃語
   • 不可算

   同義語

   forcemomentumspeedvelocity

   例文

   その他の例文 (2)

   they were messagers vnto kyng Ban & Bors sent from kynge Arthur / therfor said the viij knyghtes ye shalle dye or be prysoners / for we ben knyghtes of kyng Claudas And therwith two of them dressid theire sperys / and Vlfyus and Brastias dressid theire speres and ranne to gyder with grete raundon

   […] for coragiouſly the two kynges newely foughte with great randon and force, they ſhewed their vigors and ſtrengthes and did ſo nobly that their coũter parties had none aduaũtage.

3. The full range of a bullet or other projectile; hence, the angle at which a weapon is tilted to allow the greatest range.

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   • 廃語
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   例文

   Fortie yards will they shoot levell, or very neare the marke, and 120 is their best at Random.

   […] the angle at which the miſſive is to mount by ( if we will have it go to its furtheſt randome ) muſt be the half of a right one […]

4. An undefined, unknown or unimportant person; a person of no consequence.

   用法

   • 口語
   • 可算
   • 比喩的
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   同義語

   randonobodynonentity

   例文

   The party was boring. It was full of randoms.

   ‘The days I had to have sex with randoms, I thought thank God!’ Jamie Bell on eye-popping drama Half Man [title]

5. The direction of a rake-vein.

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6. A frame for composing type.

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   • 可算
   • 歴史用語
   • 不可算

   例文

   Utilization of all floor space underneath case racks and randoms is another feature of the modern composing room; […]

   Printers' frames and randoms

形容詞

1. Occurring for no particular reason; haphazard, unpredictable.

   同義語

   desultory

   例文

   Our city is plagued by random acts of violence.

   random acts of kindness

2. Involving an outcome which is impossible to predict, but which may be represented by a probability distribution; in the ideal case, involving outcomes which are equally likely.

   同義語

   aleatorystochastic

   例文

   Near-synonyms: aleatory, stochastic

   The flip of a fair coin is purely random.

   その他の例文 (4)

   The newspaper conducted a random sample of five hundred American teenagers.

   The results of the field survey look random by several different measures.

   A toss of a loaded die is still random, though biased.

   July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.

3. Pseudorandom; mimicking the result of random selection.

   例文

   The rand function generates a random number from a seed.

4. Selected for no particular reason; arbitrary; unspecified.

   用法

   • くだけた表現

   例文

   A random American off the street couldn't tell the difference.

   You're just going to trust the word of random people on the Internet?

   その他の例文 (2)

   I didn't have time to peruse the resturant's menu, so I just ordered some random dish.

   Whatever random hobby you're into, there's an Internet community for it.

5. Being (part of) a varied, unrelated, and apparently arbitrary collection of things; diverse, heterogeneous.

   用法

   • くだけた表現

   例文

   My notebook has turned into a random collection of thoughts.

   I brought a bunch of random snacks, but nothing nutritious.

   その他の例文 (1)

   I mixed a bunch of random vegetables into a salad, and it actually turned out pretty good.

6. Apropos of nothing; lacking context, relevance, or any connection to the previous situation; unexpected.

   用法

   • くだけた表現

   例文

   This random guy just came up to me to say that he was a fan of my work.

   Thank you for that completely random comment... now, let's get back to our actual topic of discussion.

   その他の例文 (2)

   The teacher's bartending story was interesting, but very random.

   I feel like pineapple is a very random thing to put on a pizza.

7. Of a person: characterized by or often saying random things; habitually using non sequiturs.

   用法

   • くだけた表現

   例文

   You're so random! I never know what you're going to do next.

8. Being out of the ordinary; unusual or unexpected; odd, strange, bizarre.

   用法

   • 英国での用法
   • 俗語

   例文

   That's a rather random fact!

   I can't believe he would say that. That's so random!

動詞

1. To wander; to stray; to meander.

   用法

   • 自動詞
   • あまり使われない

形容詞

1. lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance

   反義語

   nonrandom

   例文

   a random choice

   bombs fell at random

   その他の例文 (1)

   random movements