語源
A combination of Latin
sonus (“sound”) and
sonny (“boy”, diminutive).
発音
・(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsəʊni/
・(General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈsoʊni/
・(Australia) IPA: /ˈsəʉni/
・(New Zealand) IPA: /ˈsɐʉni/
・韻: -əʊni
固有名詞
Sony ・(trademark) An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan.
・ 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
・Sonbie
・Sony pony
派生した語
・→ Japanese: ソニー
・→ Chinese: 索尼 (Suǒní)
・→ Chinese: 索尼 (Suǒní)
名詞
Sony (
plural Sonys)
・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
Sony Corporation (ソニー株式会社,
Sonī Kabushiki Gaisha?) (TYO:
6758, NYSE:
SNE), commonly referred to as
Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate with US$77.20 billion (FY2010).
Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of electronics, products for the consumer and professional markets.