Results, 'possum up a gum tree
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- かすめる《掠める》 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to steal; to rob; to snatch; to pocket; to plunder
- to deceive; to trick; to cheat
- to graze (in passing); to skim; to brush against; to touch lightly
- to appear and quickly disappear (a thought, a smile, etc.); to flit (through one's mind, across one's face)
- to do (something) while no one is looking - often as 目をかすめて
- to hint at; to suggest; to insinuate - archaism
トラックは狭い道を塀にかすめるように通った。 The truck scraped along the wall in the narrow road.
- 知る★【しる】識る Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
- to be aware of; to know; to be conscious of; to cognize; to cognise
- to notice; to feel
- to understand; to comprehend; to grasp
- to remember; to be acquainted with (a procedure)
- to experience; to go through; to learn
- to be acquainted with (a person); to get to know
- to concern
その答えを知るのにあなたは本当にその質問をする必要があるのかしら。 Do you really need to ask the question to know the answer?
予知能力とは霊力を使って、未来に起こることがらについて知ること。 Precognition is the act of using spiritual-power to know things that will occur in the future.
- 尻餅【しりもち】尻もち・尻餠
noun:
- falling on one's backside (behind, bottom); pratfall ➜ 尻餅をつく
- mochi used to celebrate a child's first birthday; mochi tied to a baby's back if he starts walking before his first birthday in order to cause him to fall on his backside
昨日の大雪のせいで地面はツルツル、私は外に出た途端にすってんころりと尻もちをついた。 Because of yesterday's heavy snow, the ground is very slippery. As soon as I stepped outside, I slipped and fell on my bottom.
- つかえる☆・つっかえる《閊える・支える》 Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to stick; to get stuck; to get caught; to get jammed; to clog
- to be unavailable; to be busy; to be occupied; to be full
- to be piled up (e.g. of work)
- to halt (in one's speech); to stumble (over one's words); to stutter; to stammer
- to feel blocked (of one's chest or throat, due to grief, anxiety, illness, etc.); to feel pressure; to feel pain ➜ 痞える【つかえる】
- 投じる☆【とうじる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to throw; to cast (e.g. vote, light, shadow)
- to devote oneself (e.g. to a cause) - in the form of 身を投じる ➜ 身を投じる
- to invest; to put in
- to administer (medicine); to give
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to surrender
- to take advantage of; to make full use of
- to fit well with; to match with; to be in tune with
- to stay (at a lodging)
- 投ずる【とうずる】 Inflection
ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs):
- to throw; to cast (e.g. vote, light, shadow) - usu. 投じる ➜ 投じる
ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs) / transitive:
- to devote oneself (e.g. to a cause) - in the form of 身を投ずる
- to invest; to put in
- to administer (medicine); to give
ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs) / intransitive verb:
- to surrender
- to take advantage of; to make full use of
- to fit well with; to match with; to be in tune with
- to stay (at a lodging)
- 人には添うてみよ馬には乗ってみよ【ひとにはそうてみようまにはのってみよ】人には添うて見よ馬には乗って見よ
expression:
- you can't judge someone until you've spent time with them; you can't judge something until you've tried it; judge a man by living with him, and try a horse by riding him [literal] - proverb
- 馬には乗ってみよ人には添うてみよ【うまにはのってみよひとにはそうてみよ】馬には乗って見よ人には添うて見よ
expression:
- you can't judge someone until you've spent time with them; you can't judge something until you've tried it; try a horse by riding him, and judge a man by living with him [literal] - proverb ➜ 人には添うてみよ馬には乗ってみよ【ひとにはそうてみようまにはのってみよ】
- 冴える☆【さえる】冱える Inflection
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to be clear (of a sight, sound, colour, etc.); to be bright; to be vivid; to be crisp
- to be clear-headed; to be alert; to be on the ball; to be wide awake
- to look upbeat; to be perky; to be cheerful - often as 冴えない
- to master (a skill); to excel at; to cleanly execute
- to be satisfying - often as 冴えない ➜ 冴えない
- to become frigid; to become intensely cold - original meaning; now somewhat old-fashioned
コーヒーを一杯飲むと頭が冴える。 I feel more alert after drinking a cup of coffee.
- 漂う☆【ただよう】 Inflection
godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:
- to drift; to float
- to waft (e.g. a scent); to hang in the air
- to be in the air (e.g. a feeling or mood)
- to wander; to walk around aimlessly
- to be unsteady; to be unstable - archaism
- to falter; to flinch; to wince - archaism
- to live in unreliable circumstances - archaism
この無限の空間に漂う永遠の沈黙が私を恐怖に陥れる。 The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me.
多くの人が目的なく人生を漂う。 Many people drift through life without a purpose.
氷は毎日相当な距離を漂うこともある。 The ice may drift considerable distances each day.
- 筋★【すじ】条
noun:
- muscle; tendon; sinew
- vein; artery
- fiber; fibre; string
- line; stripe; streak
- reason; logic ➜ 筋が通る
- plot; storyline
- lineage; descent
- school (e.g. of scholarship or arts)
- aptitude; talent
- source (of information, etc.); circle; channel
- well-informed person (in a transaction)
- logical move (in go, shogi, etc.)
- ninth vertical line - Shōgi term
- seam on a helmet
- gristly fish paste (made of muscle, tendons, skin, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 筋蒲鉾
- social position; status - archaism
suffix noun / noun / ~の noun:
- on (a river, road, etc.); along
suffix / counter:
- counter for long thin things; counter for roads or blocks when giving directions
- (Edo period) counter for hundreds of mon (obsolete unit of currency) - archaism
物語の筋はある島を舞台に展開する。 The action of the story takes place on an island.
私はそのニュースを確かな筋から得た。 I got the news from a reliable source.
きみが言っていることは筋があまりよく通っていない。 There isn't much logic in what you're saying.
その小説の筋はわからない。 I don't understand this novel's plot.
私は去年、それを別の筋から聞いた。 I heard about it from another source last year.
- 知行【ちぎょう】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- carrying out one's duties
- ruling a fief; ruling a territory given by one's liege
noun:
- territory given by one's liege; fief; fiefdom
- パラパラ☆・ぱらぱら Inflection
noun:
- disco dancing with synchronized arm motions
~と adverb:
- falling in (large) drops (e.g. rain, hail); sprinkle (e.g. rain, salt); pattering; clattering (e.g. hail) - onomatopoeia
- flipping through a book; thumbing through a book; riffling cards - onomatopoeia
~と adverb / adjectival noun:
- sparse; scattered (e.g. clumps of grass) - onomatopoeia
~と adverb / ~の noun:
- crumbly (e.g. tofu, cheese, non-sticky rice); loose and falling apart - onomatopoeia
- 控える★【ひかえる】扣える Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to be temperate in; to refrain; to abstain; to hold back; to restrain oneself from excessive ...
- to make notes; to jot down (e.g. phone number)
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to be in preparation for; to be in waiting for
- to be soon; to be in the offing
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to be in a close relationship (e.g. as a backer, etc.)
あなたは喫煙をひかえるべきです。 You should refrain from smoking.
僕はジムに飲みすぎは控えるように言った。 I told Jim to restrain himself from drinking too much.
- 山越し【やまごし】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- wind blowing down, coming over a mountain
noun:
- immediately after one's draw - Mahjong term
- winning off a discarded tile from the player to one's right or across the table on the turn after letting one's winning tile go by from the player to one's left - Mahjong term
- 星★【ほし】
noun:
- star; any light-emitting (or reflecting) heavenly body (except for the sun and the moon)
- offender; perpetrator - police slang - slang
- star point (in go); hoshi; intersection marked with a dot
- circular symbol (said to be shaped like a shining star)
- bullseye
- one's star (out of the nine stars); the star that determines one's fate ➜ 九星
- small dot; spot
- point; score - Sumo term
その星は必ずしも肉眼で見えるわけではない。 We cannot necessarily see the star with the naked eye.
空には星が見えなかった。 I couldn't see any stars in the sky.
米国の国旗に50の星があります。 There are fifty stars on the American flag.
- 蓋を開ける【ふたをあける】ふたを開ける Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to open the lid; to lift a lid Antonym: 蓋を閉める
- to open the lid (on); to make public - idiom
- to start (something) - idiom
- to look at the results (consequences, outcome, effect); to look at the condition of something - idiom
- to open (of a theatre) - idiom
Kanji
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