jpdb beta

119 (ambulance and fire brigade emergency telephone number in Japan)

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private road; driveway

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to go downhill; to go down a slope

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urban areas; the streets; town; city

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utility pole; power pole; telephone pole; telegraph pole

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sumi; India ink; squid ink; octopus ink; carpenter's inking string

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corruption (of text, e.g. in email, due to improper encoding); garbling; illegal character; corrupted text; garbled text

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hoping against hope; desperately hoping; as a last hope

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neon (Ne); neon sign

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love; love (in tennis, badminton, etc.)

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type of industry

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break in contact; not hearing from; having no communication with

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to incur the wrath of the gods (e.g. by doing something immoral); to incur divine punishment; to pay for one's sins

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to be to the point; to hit the mark; to be relevant

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underground world; underground society

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which reminds me ...; come to think of it ...; now that you mention it ...; on that subject ...; so, if you say ...

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extinguishing a fire; fire fighting

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to leave nothing undone; to give good service; to attend to everything; to be on someone's tracks (e.g. police); to catch up with; to close in on

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casual; informal

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to feel depressed; to be down

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room service

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to settle (a problem); to put an end to (a dispute); to be disposed of; to be settled; to come to an end

1

national

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to compete ruthlessly; (lit.) to sharpen swords

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moving; relocation; change of address; transfer (of deeds, property, etc.); demise

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glaringly; dazzlingly; blazingly

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yell; shout; cry; roar; howl

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giant bird; huge bird

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beak; bill

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to mark the end; to spell the end

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to get cloudy; to cloud over; to cloud up; to fog up; to be gloomy; to be clouded (expression)

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sleek; smooth; thin (of a liquid); without hesitation or delay

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pretension; assumption (of a title)

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bright; cheerful; in high spirits; clear (sky); cloudless; sunny

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shadow (e.g. on someone's happiness); cloud; shade; gloom

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daimiate; fief

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(meeting with) disaster; (having an) accident; mishap; shipwreck; distress

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to fabricate; to invent; to make up (a story); to cobble together; to put together (in a slapdash manner)

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as; because; with; due to

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neighbors; neighbours; neighborhood; neighbourhood

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to buy (of a government, public agency, etc. from a private citizen); to purchase; to buy up (all of something)

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alumni association; graduates' association; alumni meeting; class reunion

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adopted child (usu. male); son-in-law

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might as well

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full-time housewife; stay-at-home homemaker

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marrying to become a housewife; (lit.) permanent employment (once one becomes a housewife)

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unmarried; single

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symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship); certain; unnamed; undisclosed

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reverse osmosis; RO

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symbol used in place of a censored word (e.g. blank, circle, X, asterisk); turn (in set-type proofing); upside-down character

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