jpdb beta

explanatory note

1

to make a mistake; to be incorrect; to be mistaken

1

flavor; flavour

2

interesting; fascinating; amusing; funny; enjoyable; fun

1

good luck; fortune

1

charm; amulet

2

parts; accessories; components

1

pillar; post; support; prop; counter for buddhas, gods, nobles, etc.

4

beam; joist

1

sun-dried

1

brick

2

sunlight; sunshine; sunbeams

2

to pile up; to make a heap; to lay (e.g. bricks); to acquire (e.g. experience); to build (a reputation)

2

strength; intensity; strong (e.g. glasses); powerful (e.g. lens); intense (e.g. fear)

1

porcelain (esp. soft-paste porcelain); china; chinaware; earthenware; pottery; ceramics

2

to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)

1

stone wall

1

cavern; grotto; rock cave

2

cliff; precipice; precipice; brink of a dangerous situation

1

rock; boulder; crag; cliff; anchor

1

to gouge out; to excavate; to hollow; to bore; to drill; to carve (e.g. pumpkin)

1

building; structure

2

pre-era; BC; BCE

1

rebar; (iron) reinforcing bar; reinforcing steel; reinforced concrete

3

to rust; to become rusty

3

semipermanent

1

reinforced concrete; ferroconcrete

1

life span

1

nomadic tribe; nomadic people; nomadic race

1

skeletal frame; skeleton; framework; frame; outline

2

to cover (with something); to put on (e.g. on someone else's head); to plate something (with a metal); to pour or dash a liquid (on something); to charge (a person with a guilt)

1

prefabricated; knockdown; demountable (e.g. motor); flatpack (furniture)

1

(what) the heck; (why) in the world; one object; one body; one form; one style

1

dirt floor; room with dirt floor; pit (theater seating); parterre

1

or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean

1

mud wall

1

bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae); middle (of a three-tier ranking system)

1

to daub; to smear

1

mortar; plaster; stucco

1

lime; quicklime; caustic lime

1

to paint; to plaster; to lacquer; to varnish; to spread; to smear

1

dry riverbed; river beach

1

black; black go stone; guilt; guilty person

1

reddish brown

1

to pile up; to accumulate

1

to place a weight upon (e.g. when making pickles); to press (down)

1

cedar bark

1

Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica)

1

to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate

1

sheet copper

2