jpdb beta

always; at any time

3

pivot foot; emphasis; priority; focus

1

to cut down; to slay; to truncate; to round down; to omit; to discard

5

(balance) scales; shoulder carrying pole; steelyard

1

pardon; forgiveness; tolerance; leniency; mercy; going easy (on someone)

1

to get information out of a person; to begin listening

1

sound of thin metal or plastic surface caving in and springing back; action of quickly bowing or lowering one's head; (with a) bob of the head

1

to turn on one's heel; to turn back; to return

3

quarrel; brawl; fight; squabble; scuffle; argument

1

is not; am not; are not; isn't it?

1

image; figure; figure; form; image

1

fast; quick; early (in the day, etc.); premature; (too) soon; not yet

2

upturned eyes

2

to act as an agent for; to intermediate; to announce (someone's arrival); to answer (the door, the phone); to convey (a message)

1

receiving; reception; eating; drinking; please; please do for me

1

unexpected; unforeseen; inconceivable

1

noon; midday; daytime; lunch

2

to come and stay; to drop in; to visit

2

advance arrangements; preparatory meeting; overlap (of a coat, etc.); (arch.) making something match exactly

1

to go out; to go around; to walk about; to roam

1

pretending to be out

1

to order; to command; to appoint

3

to hear; to be told; to know; to receive (order); to undertake; to comply

2

to pretend not to see; to turn one's back on

1

noisily (e.g. from many people talking); creating a commotion; rustling (leaves); feeling a chill; getting the chills

1

black; dark; blackish; suspicious; criminal; darkened and dirty; sooty

1

mist; haze

1

to well up; to burst; to arise

1

thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception

2

efficiency

2

advocate (of a theory or principle); ideologist; -ist (i.e. adherent to a belief system); (arch.) socialist; (arch.) communist

1

to turn toward; to look (up, down, etc.); to face (e.g. east) (of a building, window, etc.); to look out on; to point (of an arrow, compass needle, etc.); to be suited to

6

service; duty; business; Buddhist religious services

5

release; unleashing; liberation; deallocation (of computer memory)

2

to find it hard to say

1

to see everything; to see all; to abandon; to give up; to sell at a loss; to sell off

1

astonished; shocked; amazed; astounded; aghast

2

to lose hope; to be plunged into darkness

1

natural; reasonable; obvious; usual; common; ordinary

9

to squash; to crush; to flatten

1

quick pace; quick steps; quick march; trot (horse gait)

2

figure of a person; figures of people; shadow of a person

1

warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai; (arch.) man in attendance (on a person of high standing); (arch.) retainer

3

government service; the bureaucracy

5

guidance; leading (the way); information; notice; announcement (of one's arrival); invitation

2

looking; viewing; (please) try (to)

1

to stop; to turn off; to park; to prevent; to suppress (a cough); to stop (someone from doing something); to dissuade

1

to stand aside; to step to the side; to move aside

1

to compromise; to meet halfway; to step up to; to walk up to; to approach

6

several steps

1