jpdb beta

use; adoption; acceptance; appointment; employment; engagement

2

to head out (for); to head (to); to go (to); to leave (for)

1

point of tangency; point of contact; (electrical) contact; point of contact (between); connection

1

had better; is advisable

1

personal attendant

1

empty seat; unoccupied seat; vacancy; vacant post

1

rebellious phase; rebellious age

1

to be unusual (of a person or thing); to be uncommon; to be peculiar; to be eccentric; to be different

1

good evening

1

to joke; to jest; to make fun of; to laugh at; to romp; to gambol

3

feelings; emotion; compassion; sympathy; passion; affection

1

to make fun of; to look down on; to make light of

5

halfway; half measures; unfinished; incomplete; by halves; half-baked

3

to collect; to gather; to save; to accumulate; to pile up

3

you; you bastard; you son of a bitch; (arch.) you

5

we

8

to have (urgent) business; to have something one needs to attend to; to have something one wants to say (to someone)

4

to take (someone) out (for a walk, to lunch, etc.); to entice out; to lure away

5

circuitous; roundabout; indirect

1

to doubt; to distrust; to be suspicious of; to suspect

4

already; previously; before; undeniably; unmistakably

2

business; thing to be done; something that should be performed; information that should be conveyed

1

to give one's name (as); to introduce oneself (as); to claim to be; to call oneself; to reveal oneself (as); to admit to being

5

to judge; to try; to sit in judgement (on); to decide (on)

1

family; relatives; dependents; household

3

the mere shadow of one's former self; the ruin of what one once was

1

because of; owing to; due to

4

how much; how many; to what extent

6

art; technique; means; way; stratagem; artifice

1

to lose (something); to get rid of; to eliminate; to remove

1

piece (in shogi, chess, etc.); (arch.) horse; (arch.) foal; bridge (of a violin, etc.)

1

victim; injured party; sufferer

1

wig; hairpiece (esp. to cover hair loss); toupee

1

good (person, nature, etc.); good-natured; virtuous; honest

1

meddling; fumbling; fondling; playing around with something

1

inside the breast of one's clothing (esp. kimono); bosom; space between one's chest and outstretched arms; (one's) reach; heart (e.g. of a mountain); bosom (e.g. of nature)

1

to fertilize; to fertilise; to manure; to enrich

1

first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)

7

what did you just say (to me)?; what's that?

2

profit; gains; benefit; advantage; grace (of God, Buddha, etc., esp. as attained through rightful actions, prayer, adherence to one's faith, etc.); blessing

1

earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)

1

efforts; exertion; endeavour; assistance; services

1

assistance; support

1

will not do; do not; does not

1

rebel; traitor; insurgent

2

to hold one's breath; to bate one's breath

1

management; dealing with; course of events; circumstances; end result (usu. bad); outcome

3

to kill; to slay; to suppress; to block; to suppress (a voice, feelings, etc.); to hold back

1

to avenge oneself; to settle a score; to take revenge

1

(something) has never occurred; to have never done (something); such a thing has not happened; never happens; there is never a time when

2