jpdb beta

breaking off a relationship; permanent breach of friendship; rupture

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Fraunhofer lines

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strategic arrangement of go stones; opening moves; preparation; preparatory steps; groundwork

1

summer grass

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to make sound (of an animal); to call; to cry; to make a meld call (e.g. pung, kong)

2

to compete; to contend; to vie; to contest

2

tatami mat (esp. as a measure of room size, either 1.82 sqm or 1.54 sqm)

3

dilapidated house; tumbledown house; my house; my home; small resting place comprising four pillars and a roof (with no walls)

1

to rot away; to crumble to dust; to decay completely; to die in obscurity

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strong smell of grass (esp. in summer heat)

1

damp; moist (negative nuance)

2

to become damp; to become moist; to become wet; to lack energy; to be in a slump; to be in low spirits

2

to light (a candle, lamp, etc.); to turn on (a light)

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zazen (seated Zen meditation, usu. in a cross-legged position)

4

to fall asleep; to sleep deeply

2

to pull tight; to brace; to tighten

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to be caught in; to be stuck in; to stop by; to drop in for a short visit; to get mixed up in (trouble); to get entangled in (a problem); to fall for (a trick)

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falsetto

2

writing down from other written material; writing kanji text from hiragana; transcription (of spoken material); dictation

1

iris (of the eye)

1

one-by-one; separately; every single; each and every; without omission

1

(a) little; somewhat; somehow

2

administrative; businesslike; practical; impersonal; perfunctory; robot-like

1

small; fine; minute; minor; trivial; sensitive

2

emotion; feeling; feelings; sentiment

2

four times (as much); quadruple; fourfold

12

as planned

2

manly

1

to be enthralled by; to be disguised as

1

over a wall; crossing a fence

1

indigo blue

2

to change color (esp. leaves, fruit, flowers) (colour); to turn crimson (e.g. leaves in autumn); to begin to redden; to ripen; to grow ripe

1

unpleasant; disagreeable; abominable; unlucky; inauspicious; ominous

1

chestnut-color; chestnut-colour

2

curious; strange; unusual

1

profound; deep; unfathomable

1

ignorance; innocence; stupidity

1

to despise; to disdain; to scorn; to hold in contempt; to look down on

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wicked; evil

2

to contemplate; to ponder; to think long about; to turn over in one's mind

3

state ceremony; laborious; troublesome; irksome

1

subject; theme; motif

1

rabbit; hare; coney; cony; lagomorph (esp. leporids)

2

I; me

3

comical (story, song); comic; the comedy business (rakugo, manzai, etc.); something laughable

2

to trick; to cheat; to deceive; to seduce

3

ha ha ha; hee hee hee

2

to stretch larger; to enlarge (photos); to delay (e.g. the end of a meeting)

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to be jumbled together

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writing; entry (e.g. to a form); posting (e.g. to a blog)

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