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- 鍬初め【くわはじめ】
noun:
- New Year's ceremony in which a hoe is used to break ground in a field lying in a lucky direction ➜ 鍬入れ
- 捜索願【そうさくねがい】捜索願い
noun:
- request for a police search; application to the police to search for a missing person
- 少なくない【すくなくない】
expression:
- not negligible; not a little; to no small degree; to no small extent; quite a lot
- 馬に乗るまでは牛に乗れ【うまにのるまではうしにのれ】
expression:
- learn to crawl before you learn to walk; until you ride a horse, ride a cow [literal] - proverb
- 満を持する【まんをじする】 Inflection
expression / ~する verb (spec.):
- to have readied a bow and stand at ready; to watch for an opportunity; to wait until the time is ripe ➜ 満を持す
- 木に縁って魚を求む【きによってうおをもとむ】
expression:
- to be unable to accomplish something because one has chosen the wrong method; to ask for the impossible; to look for fish by climbing a tree (Mencius) [literal] - variant of 木に縁りて... - proverb ➜ 木に縁りて魚を求む【きによりてうおをもとむ】
- 集く【すだく】 Inflection
godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:
- to chirp (of a swarm of insects); to sing
- to gather; to swarm
- 預ける☆【あずける】 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to leave (in someone's keeping); to put (in someone's care); to place (in someone's custody); to entrust (someone) with; to deposit
- to put (someone) in charge of; to leave (a matter) in someone's hands; to let (someone) decide
- to lean on; to put one's weight on
- 伸ばす☆【のばす】延ばす☆ Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to grow long (e.g. hair, nails) - esp. 伸ばす
- to lengthen; to extend; to stretch
- to reach out; to hold out - esp. 伸ばす
- to straighten; to smooth out
- to spread evenly (dough, cream, etc.)
- to dilute; to thin out
- to postpone - esp. 延ばす
- to prolong
- to strengthen; to develop; to expand
その男の子はあくまでも髪の毛を伸ばすことにこだわった。 The boy persisted in wearing his hair long.
暗闇の中、俺は遠ざかる後姿に必死に手を伸ばす。 In the darkness, I frantically reach out towards the receding figure.
その仕事を明日まで延ばすな。 Don't put off the work till tomorrow.
委員会の目的は子供の音楽の才能を伸ばすことにあります。 The purpose of the committee is to develop children's musical talent.
- ずば抜ける【ずばぬける】 Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to tower above the rest; to be by far the best; to be prominent; to be outstanding; to be a cut above
- 艶めく【つやめく】 Inflection
godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:
- (for an object) to be shiny; to be glossy
- (for a woman) to be alluring; to look sexy
- 鼻っ柱をへし折る【はなっぱしらをへしおる】鼻っ柱を圧し折る Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to take someone down a peg; to cut someone down to size; to dampen someone's confidence
- 着手☆【ちゃくしゅ】 Inflection
~する noun:
- to start work (on); to undertake
- to start committing a crime - also 著手 - Law term
noun:
- embarkation; launch
- 語り尽くす【かたりつくす】語りつくす・語り尽す Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to say everything one wants to say; to exhaust a topic
- 気がせく【きがせく】気が急く Inflection
expression / godan ~く verb:
- to feel under pressure; to feel impatient; to be in a hurry
- 評判になる【ひょうばんになる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to be talked about; to get a name for oneself; to get publicity
- 言い負ける【いいまける】言負ける Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to lose a quarrel; to lose an argument; to be talked down
- タッグを組む【タッグをくむ】 Inflection
expression / godan ~む verb:
- to work together; to strive together; to form a tag team [literal]
- 流し込む☆【ながしこむ】 Inflection
godan ~む verb / transitive:
- to pour into; to wash down
- to insert (e.g. into a data stream) - IT term
僕ならスープ皿を持ってきて、グラスを充分に注意しながらテーブルの端まで滑らせて水をそのスープ皿に流し込むな。水は床にはこぼれない。 I'd get a soup plate and then slide the glass very carefully over to the edge of the table, and let the water run into the soup plate - it doesn't have to run onto the floor.
ページが読み込まれたら更新情報をページ内に流し込む prototype.js prototype.js - inserts update information into the page when the page is loaded.
- 一目置く【いちもくおく】 Inflection
expression / godan ~く verb:
- to take off one's hat to a person; to acknowledge another's superiority - from the weaker player in a game of go being allowed to place an extra stone as a handicap - idiom
- 荷が勝つ【にがかつ】 Inflection
expression / godan ~つ verb:
- to be unequal to the burden (job); to be too heavy a load for
- 押っ被せる【おっかぶせる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to put a thing on top of another; to cover; to lay something on
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