1.
to tie up; to bundle
To bind or tie things together into a bundle.
髪を後ろで括っている。
She has her hair tied back.
新聞を紐で括って捨てた。
I tied up the newspapers with string and threw them away.
引っ越しの前に段ボールを紐で括って準備した。
Before the move, I tied up the cardboard boxes with string to prepare.
2.
to summarize; to lump together
To group or categorize things together.
全部一括りにしないでほしい。
I'd rather you not lump everything together.
同じカテゴリーに括ることはできない。
We can't lump them into the same category.
複雑な問題を一言で括るのは難しい。
It's difficult to summarize a complex problem in a single word.
括る is a transitive verb (他動詞). There is no common intransitive pair.
ASPECT ({ている}):
括っている indicates a resulting state of being tied or bundled.
COMMON PATTERNS:
- 紐で括る - to tie with string
- 髪を括る - to tie up one's hair
- 一括する - to bundle together, to lump together
- 括り付ける - to tie firmly
COMPOUND EXPRESSIONS:
- 腹を括る - to prepare oneself mentally, to steel oneself (idiom)
- 一括りにする - to lump together, to generalize
RELATED WORDS:
- 縛る - to tie, to bind (more general, often tighter)
- 束ねる - to bundle, to tie in a bunch