to comb upwards; to brush up (a loose strand of hair); to turn up a lamp wick
to look away; to avert one's eyes
one clap; one beat; one mora (taken as a unit of time)
to pause; to have a short intermission
simile; metaphor; allegory; parable
exactly as stated; verbatim
border; boundary; turning point; watershed; area; region
very likely; very probable
calm, cool, and collected; level and calm
to sound shrill (of a voice); to sound high-pitched and excited; to get excited; to become restless; to be thrown too high; to come in high
resemblance; similarity; likeness; analogy
to pile up; to accumulate
expectation; anticipation; purpose; intention; others' opinions of one; speculation
to be unusual (of a person or of a thing); to be uncommon; to be peculiar; to be crazy; to be eccentric; to be different
to shake; to swing; to sway; to shock
to cause; to induce; to bring about; to pull upright; to help up (e.g. a fallen person)
main cause; primary factor
that kind of; of the sort; of the kind; such
to arrive at (e.g. a decision); to reach (a stage); to lead to (a place); to get to; in the extreme case of; (arch.) to come
wave motion; undulation; surge; wave
on the occasion of; circumstances; juncture
instability; insecurity; crankiness
perception; sensing; noticing
to abate; to weaken; to be emaciated; to be dejected; to be perplexed
particle; atom; little piece; not at all; not the slightest
secret; private; surreptitious
judgement; judgment; expert opinion; appraisal
zero; 0; nought; nothing; zilch
came here; coming here; recently
to understand; to make out
old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago
to realize; to realise; to hit upon something
to coil around; to follow about; to be related to; to concern; to be associated with
in accordance with; following; roughly; about; Street; Avenue
to spread; to extend; to unfold; to open; to scatter about; to spread around
from long ago; from old times; from time immemorial
to pass down (a story) from generation to generation; to hand down
to prove successful; to take hold; to amount to something
literature; books (reference); document
case (e.g. receptacle, condition, event, legal action, letter style, etc.); Computer-Aided Software Engineering; CASE
classification; categorization; sorting
young child; toddler; child over 1 but not yet of school age