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to kick into the air; to kick up; to kick from below

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tag; label; game of tag; tag-team match; working together as a team

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standard practice; playing by the book; established tactic; joseki (in go); standard sequence (esp. in a corner); standard move

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three times; thrice; third (musical interval); many times; over and over again

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cracked bell

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allophone; strange noise

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to clear away; to clear land; to prune; to lop off

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it's no joke; gimme a break!

2

pleasant sound; crack (of a baseball bat); roar (of a motor)

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absolutely every little bit; everything from A to Z; systematically; thoroughly; one after another

2

frame (e.g. of film, panel in a comic, etc.); scene; time block (e.g. of a class schedule)

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skillful; skilful; adroit; clever; shrewd; ingenious

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dance (esp. Western style); dancing

2

like; as if; the same as

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to hold in one's mouth

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(set of) facial features; looks

3

tail (animal); tail end; tip

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putting into operation; invocation

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to shut one's eyes; to ignore; to pretend not to know; to die

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one-to-one; one-on-one

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characteristic quality; special character; one's function; one's duty; fief; inherited estate

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also called

3

sliding

2

king (of the senior player)

1

each other; one another

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rook; hisha

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putting one's life on the line; giving everything one has got; acting out of desperation

1

composition

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to kill (with a weapon); to defeat an opponent; to get someone out; to arrest; to take prisoner

2

easy to deal with; tractable; manageable

4

arithmetic unit

2

spark; SPARC

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bits and pieces; frizzily (as in perm)

3

long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai); large sword; straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier)

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lower tier; lower step; lower column; low position (of a sword in kendo, etc.)

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evacuation; emission (e.g. of CO2, etc.); ejection

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beheading; decapitation

5

dust; one ten-billionth

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stiffening; rigidity; rigor; stiffness; ossification; petrification

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to be solved; to be resolved; to loosen; to come untied; to be removed (of restrictions); to be lifted (e.g. a ban)

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to slay; to cut down (a foe)

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steel

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to shorten the distance (between); to close the gap (e.g. on the leader); to get closer (e.g. to someone); to close in (on)

2

swordsman; swordswoman; fencer

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sight (e.g. of a gun); aim; alignment

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perception; intuition; the sixth sense

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judo

2

throw or throwing technique (sumo, judo)

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to hit (e.g. to have a car hit someone); to run into; to reject; to deny; to eliminate; to exclude; to flip

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to take something into ...; to bring in; to lodge (a complaint); to file (a plan); to bring to (a state: tied game, vote, trial, etc.)

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