Results, expression meaning teaching something to someone who knows more than you
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- 繋ぎ止める【つなぎとめる】つなぎ止める・繋ぎとめる・繋ぎ留める Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to tie; to fasten; to hitch; to secure (e.g. load, patronage of customers, etc.); to hold on to
- 握りつぶす【にぎりつぶす】握り潰す Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to crush (with one's hands)
- to kill a proposal; to shelve; to table (remove from consideration); to pigeonhole; to smother
- 口添え☆【くちぞえ】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- recommendation; putting in a good word for someone
今日の会議で、私は友人のために口添えをしてやった。 I put in a good word for my friend at today's meeting.
- 独り者【ひとりもの】一人者
noun:
- single (i.e. unmarried) person; someone alone
女房の尻にしかれている亭主は、幸せな独り者に話してはじめて、自分の問題を認識することがたびたびだ。 Many times, a hen-pecked husband doesn't know his problems until he talks to a happy bachelor.
- 諒恕【りょうじょ】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- consideration (for someone's circumstances); compassion; pardon; mercy
- ひっくり返す【ひっくりかえす・ひっくりがえす】引っくり返す・引っ繰り返す・引繰り返すirr. Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to turn over; to turn upside down; to turn up; to turn inside out; to turn out
- to knock over; to tip over
- to overturn (e.g. a decision); to upset; to reverse
ネコがひっくり返すといけないから、ビンに栓をしなさい。 Put the cap back on the bottle in case the cat knocks it over.
- 放つ☆【はなつ】 Inflection
godan ~つ verb / transitive:
- to fire (gun, arrow, questions, etc.); to shoot; to hit (e.g. baseball); to break wind
- to set free; to release; to let loose
- to emit (e.g. light); to give off (e.g. a scent)
- to send out (a person to carry out a duty)
- to set fire to - in the form 火を放つ ➜ 火を放つ
隊長は礼砲を放つように命じた。 The captain gave orders for a salute to be fired.
それは虎を野に放つようなものだ。 It is like letting a tiger run loose.
クエーサーとは、非常に遠方にある、まぶしい輝きを放つ天体だ。 Quasars are brilliantly shining heavenly bodies that are extremely far away.
- 沸く☆【わく】 Inflection
godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:
- to grow hot (e.g. water); to boil
- to get excited (at); to erupt (in applause, cheering, etc.); to be in a ferment; to take place energetically
- to ferment
- to melt (of metal)
彼女はお茶を入れる前にお湯が沸くまで待った。 She waited until the water boiled before making the tea with it.
- 覆す☆【くつがえす】 Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to overturn; to capsize; to upset
- to overthrow (government etc.)
- to reverse (decision etc.); to disprove (an established theory etc.); to overrule
従来の常識を覆す発明というのは、普通とは違う現象に気づく能力と関係がある。 Innovation has something to do with the faculty to notice unusual phenomena.
- 倒れる★【たおれる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to fall (over, down); to collapse; to take a fall; to topple
- to be destroyed (in a collapse); to collapse; to cave in; to crumble; to give away
- to be confined to bed (with an illness); to come down with; to break down (e.g. from overwork)
- to die; to be killed
- to go bankrupt (of a company, bank, etc.); to fail; to collapse; to go under
- to be defeated (in a game); to lose
- to fall (of a government, dictator, etc.); to be overthrown
私は通りで老人があお向けに倒れるのを見た。 I saw an old man fall on his back in the street.
あの元気な男が病気で倒れるなんて、鬼の霍乱ともっぱらの噂だよ。 For a healthy cheerful guy like that to get sick is like the devil getting sunstroke. Everyone is talking about it.
- 取っ組む【とっくむ】 Inflection
godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:
- to grapple with; to wrestle with; to engage in a bout; to be matched against
- to tackle (e.g. a problem); to come to grips with; to work hard on
- 飛び出す★【とびだす】飛びだす・飛出す・跳び出す・跳びだす Inflection
godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:
- to jump out; to rush out; to fly out
- to appear (suddenly)
- to protrude; to project
- to butt in
彼女は子供が道路に飛び出すのを見て強くブレーキをかけた。 She braked hard when she saw a child run out into the road.
椎間板ヘルニアは背骨の間にある椎間板という軟骨が飛び出すものです。 Disk herniation is when cartilage, called 'intervertebral disk' and found between each vertebra, slips out.
- 流行る☆【はやる】 Inflection
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
- to be popular; to come into fashion
- to be prevalent; to spread widely (e.g. disease); to be endemic
- to flourish; to thrive
イタリアのファッション・デザイナーは、今年は白の水着が流行るだろうと言っている。 Some Italian fashion designers are saying that white bathing suits will catch on this year.
- 探し出す【さがしだす】捜し出す・探しだす・捜しだす・さがし出す Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up; to discover
- 読み解く【よみとく】 Inflection
godan ~く verb:
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