蓄積する
解説 Definition
accumulating は accumulate（蓄積する）の現在分詞・動名詞です。物、情報、経験、証拠などが少しずつたまっていくことを表します。
The present participle or gerund of accumulate, referring to things gradually gathering or being collected in increasing amounts. It can describe either something building up by itself or someone deliberately collecting materials, information, experience, or evidence.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
accumulating は accumulate「少しずつ蓄積する」に -ing を付けた形で、語末の e を落として accumulating となります。語源の cumulus「積み山」を思い浮かべ、dust、data、experience、evidence が一度にではなく徐々に山のように増える場面と結び付けましょう。
Begin with accumulate and drop its final silent e before adding -ing: accumulate becomes accumulating. Connect the word with cumulus, the cloud name that suggests a piled-up mass. Imagine dust slowly building on a shelf or researchers adding one result after another until they have strong evidence. This gradual increase is the central idea; accumulating does not normally suggest that everything appears at once. It can be intransitive, as in “Dust is accumulating,” or transitive, as in “The company is accumulating data.” Remember the recurring partners data, evidence, wealth, experience, and dust.
例文
Dust is accumulating on the old shelves.
古い棚にほこりがたまっています。
The company is accumulating useful data from customers.
その会社は顧客から有用なデータを蓄積しています。
By recording each result, the researchers are accumulating strong evidence.
各結果を記録することで、研究者たちは有力な証拠を蓄積しています。
accumulating の類義語・関連語
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accumulating の語源・成り立ち Etymology
accumulating は accumulate＋-ing。accumulate はラテン語 accumulare「山のように積み上げる」からで、ad-「へ」＋ cumulus「積み山」に分けられ、少しずつ重ねて蓄える感じが見えます。関連語は cumulative, cumulus。
Accumulating is formed from accumulate by dropping the final silent e and adding -ing. Accumulate comes from Latin accumulāre, “to heap up,” built from ad-, “toward,” assimilated to ac-, and cumulus, “heap” or “mound.” The same Latin noun appears in cumulus, the name for a cloud with a heaped appearance. The word’s history closely matches its modern sense of quantities gradually piling up.
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