jpdb beta

toolbox

1

service; duty; business; Buddhist religious services

1

to bake (a design onto ceramic); to fire (on); to burn into (one's memory); to sear into; to print (from a negative); to brand; to fuse together (metals)

3

surprise attack; surprise visit; catching a person off guard

3

to look upward

2

weathering; fading (of memories); efflorescence

3

splinters of glass; glass shards

2

deterioration (in quality, performance, etc.); degradation; worsening; (visible) aging; becoming unattractive (due to aging)

8

actual article or goods; spots (stocks, foreign exchange, commodities, etc.); (in) kind (income, benefit, rent, taxes, investment, etc.)

1

joint; seam; joining point

1

exaggerated; overblown; overdone

2

when it comes to ...; where ... is concerned; if it's the case that ...; if it turns out that ...; if it's true that ...

1

up through; up until; down to; from ... to ... (e.g. from head to toe); everything from ... to ...

1

recommendation; advice; suggestion; encouragement

1

washing; cleansing; cleaning; cleansing (one's mind and body)

1

reuse; recycling

2

untalkative; quiet; taciturn; reticent; uncommunicative

1

to kick up

2

to be mixed; to be blended with; to be combined; to associate with; to mingle with; to interest

1

unheard-of; unprecedented; unparalleled in history (unparallelled); record-breaking

1

both parties; both sides

2

seeing through (a trick, someone's mind, etc.)

1

thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...

1

uneasy; unsure; unreliable; untrustworthy; (arch.) nervous; (arch.) impatient

1

dispersion; scattering; spreading out; diffusion

1

member of one's in-group (e.g. family member, colleague)

1

to be generally accepted; to be acknowledged by oneself and others

1

piece; slice; cloth; sharpness; agility; counter for scraps, pieces, etc.

1

stray bullet

1

kidnapping; kidnaping

1

house arrest

1

to be conceivable that; to be thinkable that

1

(navigable) canal; waterway

2

to pull into; to draw in; to bring in; to win over

1

gravel; ballast; pebbles

2

asthma

1

fragmentary

1

time; appointed time

3

gross; disgusting

1

disposal; abandonment; scrapping; annulment; cancellation; abrogation

3

(time of) one's childhood; when one was a child

4

childhood; infancy

1

wooden building blocks; wooden bricks; playing with building blocks; piled timber; piling up wood

1

to pick out; to single out; to select; to extract; to draw out; to pull out

1

several (objects, usu. from two to six)

4

longish; moderately long; somewhat long; fairly long

1

hill

1

resembling ...; having the traits or characteristics of ...; -looking; with a ...-like expression; with an air of ...

2

to atone for; to expiate; to redeem; to make up for; to compensate for

1

spontaneous; voluntary

2