jpdb beta

disk; disc; disk (storage); disc

1

microscopic

1

hole; opening; pit; hollow; burrow; den; deficit

1

fleeting; transient; short-lived; empty (dream, etc.); mere (hope); faint (possibility)

5

fragment; small piece; scrap; shred (e.g. of emotion); trace; bit

1

to be lost (e.g. luggage); to be missing; to be used up; to be run out; to disappear (e.g. pain); to be lost (e.g. a dream, confidence)

1

instrumental quartet

3

Christmas Oratorio

5

six copies; Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)

2

consists of; comprises; is made up of

2

planting a field with the same crop each year; repeated cultivation; collaborative literary work; story made up by several writers working on it in turn; series (of novels); cycle (of poems, songs)

1

total; sum total; total amount

1

long work; (full-length) novel; feature-length film; long poem

1

6th day of the month; six days

4

December; twelfth month of the lunar calendar

7

25th day of the month; 25 days

5

Christmas; Nativity; celebration of the birthday of a saint or great man

1

January; first month of the lunar calendar

4

Epiphany

1

12th day of the month; 12 days

4

to point; to nominate; to select someone; to identify; to indicate; to play (a game of shogi)

6

during; for the duration of

1

six; six years of age; six o'clock (old time system)

3

to hold (a ceremony); to perform

1

(Catholic) Mass

1

to pass; to elapse; to pass through; to go through; to experience; to go through

6

period; term; interval

6

abstemious; austere

1

Protestant

1

teaching; instruction; teachings; precept; lesson; doctrine

1

festival merrymaking; revelry

1

outrageous; scandalous; inexcusable; disgraceful; shameful; rude

1

tide; current; tendency; trend

2

oratorio

1

Catholic; Catholicism; Catholic Church

1

custom

2

firmly rooted; deep-seated

2

the New Year begins; the New Year starts; to end (e.g. apprenticeship, service)

1

tree (esp. a Christmas tree); tree (structure, diagram, etc.); thread (on Twitter)

1

cake

9

relief; mitigation; alleviation; relaxation (of restrictions, tensions, etc.); easing; softening

2

congestion; crush; crowding; confusion; disorder

2

Toys R Us (toy retailer)

1

first person (to do); person going first; first place; top position; person in the top position

1

Odaiba (artificial island in Tokyo Bay)

2

performer

1

purveyor (to the Imperial Household, etc.); company (or restaurant, place, etc.) that caters to or is popular with a specific clientele

1

meeting place

2

shopfront; storefront; shopwindow; over-the-counter

3

stone bridge

1