jpdb beta

story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend

2

twelve o'clock; noon; midnight

3

opening (the doors to an event, etc.); inauguration

3

smoking area; smoking corner

1

to kill time

1

is something wrong?; what's wrong?; what's the matter?; slightest; mere; trivial

1

unusual event; strange occurrence; strange phenomenon; something abnormal; change (for the worse); accident

1

fat; tallow; lard; grease

1

bitter smile; wry smile; strained laugh; sarcastic laugh

3

mixed; mingled

2

in some way; somehow or other; somewhere or other

1

to calm down; to compose oneself; to calm down; to settle down; to settle down (in a location, job, etc.); to settle in; to be settled

3

to take someone (to some place); to take someone along; to lead someone away

2

inner thigh; (walking) pigeon-toed; one's toes turned inward; uchimata (judo); throwing an opponent by putting one's leg between their legs

1

to crawl into; to work oneself into

3

irritating; irritated; frustrating; vexing; (feeling things are) not quick enough; (feeling) too slow-going

1

close call; narrow margin; the eleventh hour

1

crisis

1

to escape from; to get out

1

to lose weight; to become thin; to wither away

1

outskirts (of a town); run-down district

1

sticky; thickly (e.g. painted); heavily (applied); all over (pasting, stamping, etc.); clinging (e.g. of a person); following around

1

curtain raising; starting (e.g. play, concert)

2

a lot; many; (not) much; (not) many; almost (none)

3

to wipe; to dry

1

fool; idiot; simpleton

1

to hold one's breath; to bate one's breath

1

from the place (where); from the fact that ...; caused by the fact that ...; because

1

to separate (by distance, time, etc.); to isolate; to interpose; to have between; to alienate; to estrange

1

soliloquy; monologue; speaking to oneself

1

here and there; in places

1

mutually; with each other; reciprocally; together

1

to cut into (a line, conversation, etc.); to force oneself into (e.g. a crowd); to wedge oneself into; to fall below (of stock prices, sales, etc.); to drop below

2

next; hypo- (i.e. containing an element with low valence); order; sequence

4

to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)

1

mobile telephone; cellular telephone

4

pine tree (Pinus spp.); highest (of a three-tier ranking system)

1

substitution; material; price; margin (e.g. for stapling, etc.); area required for something; (arch.) shiro (unit of land area equal to one-fiftieth of a tan; approx. 19.83 m.sq.)

1

service area

1

site (usu. website); sight; payable on sight

1

group; bunch; crowd; group

2

infiltration; sneaking in; going undercover

1

confidential information

1

the Radio Law

1

revision; amendment; alteration

1

public welfare; the people's livelihood

1

frequency band; waveband

1

to pin down; to hold down; to cover (esp. a part of one's body with one's hand); to clutch (a body part in pain); to get a hold of; to obtain

1

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

1

possession; owning

1