jpdb beta

cub

2

junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school

3

elder brother; one's senior; older man; man older than oneself

3

nine (in mekuri karuta); oicho-kabu (traditional Japanese gambling card game)

4

to drive (a car) around; to ride (a bicycle) around

1

dear (old); fondly-remembered; beloved; missed; nostalgic

1

no matter what anyone says; regardless of what is said

2

cultivator; farm tractor; tiller

2

agricultural machinery and equipment

1

gasoline engine; petrol engine

2

farmwork

1

huge; big; gargantuan

1

to straddle; to sit astride; to mount; to extend over; to spread over; to span

4

ignition key

2

to twist; to wrench; to puzzle over; to defeat easily

3

to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)

5

piston; plunger

1

inhalation (of air); inhaled air; intake (e.g. of air)

1

compression; condensation; constriction; compaction

1

isn't it?; don't you think?; right?; surely; come on

2

to grow cold (from room temperature, e.g. in refrigerator); to get chilly; to cool down

2

to do

2

to trample down; to tread on; to ignore; to spurn

1

overhaul; reconditioning

1

beat; palpitation; pulsation; throbbing

1

meter; gauge; metre (i.e. 100 cm); meter; animator

1

accelerator; accelerator pedal; gas pedal

6

time lag

1

number of revolutions (i.e. as an engine speed); number of rotations; speed of revolution; speed of rotation

2

metallic sound; metallic clank

4

shout; yell; scream

7

cheer; shout of joy

3

I know, right?; don't you agree?; I thought you'd say that!; there we go

1

to step aside; to move (i.e. out of the way); to make way

1

support; participation; assistance; complicity; conspiracy

2

mission; delegation; transmission

2

to bite; to chew; to gnaw; to fumble one's words (esp. during a play, broadcast, etc.); to falter with one's words; to crash against (e.g. of waves); to break onto (shore)

4

to be crowded; to be packed; to be complex; to go into; to put into; to do intently

6

to shake; to sway; to waver

5

smoothly; swiftly

1

to begin slipping or sliding; to make a start upon

1

unexpected; unforeseen; inconceivable

1

(turning) round and round; in circles; wrapping around; winding around

1

to run around

2

third floor

2

look (in someone's eyes); expression (of the eyes); eyes

1

like that; that way

3

solution; solution strategy

2

drum (e.g. oil, gasoline); metal barrel

4

ten-odd; a dozen or so

1