jpdb beta

conference room; council room

10

to spread; to propagate; to popularize; to broaden; to extend; to widen

1

certain; definite; clear; credible

1

tactics; strategy; military operation; naval operation

1

wish; desire; hope; prospect; expectation; (one's) hopes

2

to find out; to discover; to select; to pick out; to look out (from the inside); to be wide-eyed (in surprise, anger, etc.)

2

probability; likelihood; chances

1

to be placed on; to be set on; to be piled on; to appear (in print); to be mentioned; to be recorded

1

tray; family; household; O-Bon; Bon Festival; gambler's den

1

approval; endorsement

1

recommendation; putting in a good word for someone

1

to digest; to break down; to break to pieces; to be able to use; to be good at; to finish; to complete

2

any; anything; whatever; I am told; I hear; I understand

7

commencing with; including

1

to tie up in a bundle (e.g. straw, hair, bills, letters); to bundle; to govern; to manage; to fold (one's arms); to put together (one's hands)

1

cueing (e.g. a magnetic tape, recording) (cuing); cue; feeding (e.g. paper under a print head); feed; document loading

1

in name; on paper

2

with a crunching or grinding sound; quickly; promptly; crispily; crunchily

3

to look (stare) back at (somebody); to look at again; to re-examine; to prove oneself superior (to someone who had previously been condescending); to look back (behind oneself)

3

advantage; point in favor; point in favour

1

disadvantage; handicap; drawback; inadvisability; inexpediency; loss

2

not so

1

harm; injury; evil (influence)

1

for example; for instance; e.g.

3

position (where one is standing); place where one stands; position; stance; standpoint

1

to bring up a subject; to touch on a matter

2

goddess; female deity

7

being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)

1

this area; around here

3

looks; appearance

2

worship; adoration; admiration; cult

1

to scheme; to plan; to play a trick; to invent; to conspire; to frame up

1

general; universal; ordinary; average; (arch.) the same; (arch.) no different

1

to put one's palms together (e.g. when praying or asking for something); to place one's hands together; to compete against somebody; to play (a game, match, etc.) against somebody

1

to assume the posture of praying; to press the palms and fingers of both hands together; to beg; to make a supplication; to see (something or someone of high status)

2

to force; to compel; to coerce; to press; to impose

1

to become used to seeing; to be familiar with

4

emergency; extraordinary; unusual

2

close (relationship, connection, etc.); intimate; near; close (together)

1

relationship; relation

2

to build; to construct; to erect; to amass (e.g. fortune); to pile up

1

to inform; to notify; to know; to reign

2

unskillful; poor; awkward; imprudent; untactful

2

to hit; to strike; to strike (noon, etc.); to sound (cymbals, etc.); to beat (rhythmically, e.g. pulse, waves, etc.); to move; to impress

1

execution

2

to do (someone) a wrong; to do (someone) an ill turn; to take revenge; to resent; to bear a grudge

1

wicked woman; ugly woman

2

great; grand; extensive; large-scale

1

to hesitate to say

3

sure to ...; certain to ...; bound to ...; it's natural that ...

2