hypothesis; supposition; assumption; tentative theory
idle gossip; foolish talk; yarn
distance; interval; gap; difference; estrangement
to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to exceed; to surpass; to be more (than)
one side; one party; counterpart; one of a pair; fellow; mate
to dry up; to parch; to ebb away
to pour into (liquids); to pump into
revelation; manifestation; appearance; expression (e.g. in molecular biology; protein expression or gene expression)
to fix (a time, date, etc.); to set; to expect; to hope for; to resolve (to do); to decide upon
to rise to the surface; to come to the front; to emerge (e.g. from obscurity); to stand out (e.g. against a dark background)
to lie deep in; to extend far back
looking up (e.g. a word in a dictionary); retrieval (e.g. data); searching for; referring to
wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do
distant (from someone); aloof; estranged; knowing little (of); ill-informed (about); ignorant (of)
to find out; to discover; to locate
cloth; bujian (spade-shaped bronze coin of ancient China)
to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell
billiards; pool; snooker; cue sports
billiards; pool; serial collisions (of cars)
establishment; creation; posing (a problem); options setting; preference settings; configuration
to finger; to touch; to make changes to; to tinker with; to dabble in; to do as a hobby
(electrical) ground; earth; grounding; touching the ground; landing (an airplane)
second; number two; runner-up
ball; sphere; bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; ball (in sports); pile (of noodles, etc.); bullet
to affect; to impact; to influence
on the board (shogi, go, etc.)
beanbags; jackstones; cueball
to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations
ramrod; rammer; ram; (cattle) prod; goad
(leading) someone by the nose
to take aim (at); to set one's sights (on); to zero in (on)
to stimulate; to stir up; to arouse
to distribute; to hand out
angle; square; cube; bishop; third degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); jiao (monetary unit of China; one-tenth of a yuan)
four corners; four ordinal directions
ball; ball (pitch that falls outside of the strike zone); bowl; board (cardboard, pasteboard, etc.)
to rebound; to recoil; to splash; to have a repercussion; to have a reciprocal effect
from the viewpoint of; according to
first law of thermodynamics
law of conservation of energy