No. 1,137 in Japanese
ホーム
"ホーム" means "platform" in English, typically referring to a train or subway platform.
In a sentence
駅のホームで電車を待っています。
I am waiting for the train on the platform.
In this sentence, 'ホーム' refers to a train station platform, a common usage in Japanese.
彼のホームは本当に心地よいです。
His home is truly comfortable.
Here, 'ホーム' is used to mean 'home' or residence in an informal context, borrowing the English term.
ホームからアクセスできるファイルは整理されています。
The files accessible from the home directory are organized.
In this technical context, 'ホーム' refers to the home directory in a computer system, following the usage from English within technical jargon.
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