jpdb beta

experience

3

one hand

7

reins; bridle; control; the reins (on)

3

to handle well; to handle deftly; to deal with; to manage; to prepare (meat or fish) for cooking; to dress (meat, etc.)

1

to arrive home; to return

1

tediously; repetitively; insistently; ad nauseam; at great length

1

dimple

2

complexion; colour; color; blood red

1

pale color; pale colour

1

village

16

property; fortune; assets

5

to talk; to chat; to chatter

13

to scatter; to cause a shower of; to disperse; to distribute; to resolve (a symptom, condition, etc.); to relieve

7

number of persons; personnel

1

roll-call; muster

1

to call together; to convene

1

dangerous; risky; in danger; in jeopardy; uncertain; unreliable

3

to pull; to tug; to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest); to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)

10

to drop; to lose; to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice)

6

in some way or other; one way or another; somehow; only just; barely

2

curvature; warp; bend

1

in one's own way or style

3

awfully; frightfully; desperately; violently; unduly; extremely

3

to jar; to creak; to grate

1

tossing and turning in bed; turning over in bed worrying over something

1

soundly (sleeping); fast (asleep)

1

to fall fast asleep; to be confined to one's bed; to be laid up

6

to sparkle; to glitter; to twinkle

3

small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos)

2

rack or hanger for hanging kimono, coats, etc.

1

dust; one ten-billionth

5

clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.

8

finely chopped fish or meat (sometimes seared first); mince; hitting (e.g. a drum); striking; bashing; criticizing

1

brush

4

to begin (doing); to start (doing)

4

to dismantle; to demount; to take something away; to detach

1

just now; right now; at this moment

3

stable; barn

2

to come back

2

to exchange glances; to look at each other; to postpone; to put off; to contrast; to compare

2

telepathy; tacit understanding; thought transference; non-verbal Zen Buddhist transmission to a disciple of the central tenets of Buddhism

1

each other; one another

2

to relate to; to have one's feelings understood

1

to take in; to bring in; to capture (e.g. image); to import; to win over; to please

2

lower floor; downstairs; bottom of the stairs; foot of the stairs

2

destination; whereabouts; future; prospects

3

mouthful; morsel; gulp; sip; one word; in short

10

road; path; route; way; distance; journey; road (e.g. to victory)

1

to crack jokes

2

to do something together

1