jpdb beta

by all rights; properly speaking; legally speaking

3

welcome; reception

1

affirmation; affirmative (logic)

1

(social) standing; status; identity; birth; one's circumstances; one's means

2

difference; variation; difference

4

bento; Japanese box lunch

15

truth; reality; sincerity; honesty; (arch.) that's right

1

skillful; skilful; delicious; appetizing; fortunate; splendid

2

emphasis-adding particle

3

basket; basketball; basket cloth

1

lunch; midday meal

2

to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on

27

speaking of ...; when it comes to ...; as for ...; if one were to say ...

5

pure white; blank (e.g. mind, paper)

2

tablecloth

1

knife

4

fork; forkball

2

to line up; to set up; to enumerate; to itemize; to be equal (to); to compare well (with)

2

full-course dinner; multicourse meal

1

form (as opposed to substance); formality; method; system; format; mode

2

to be found

1

to feel hungry; to get hungry

1

quick; prompt; without delay; simple; easy; effortless

1

to desire; to wish for; to expect; to see; to command (a view of)

3

onigiri; rice ball (often triangular, sometimes with a filling and wrapped in nori)

5

food

1

catalyst

2

to be mixed together; to be blended; to intermingle; to commingle

1

commoner; plebeian

2

duty; role; function

2

to accomplish; to achieve; to carry out; to do ... completely; to do ... entirely

1

more or less; though not quite satisfactorily; tentatively; for the time being; just in case; once

8

people; citizens; subjects; folk

1

to entrust; to send (a message, etc.)

1

to touch; to come in contact with; to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to receive (news); to get; to encounter

1

cushioning; packaging

1

pair; the two; both persons; both things

1

to narrow; to contract

1

special; particular; extraordinary; exceptional; especial

2

custom; practice; said; aforementioned; instance; example

6

one-by-one; separately; every single; each and every; without omission

1

to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks); to grip (from both sides); to put between; to sandwich between; to catch (e.g. a finger in a door); to trap; to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)

3

troublesome; annoying; complicated

1

double-dealing; double tongue; going back on what one has said; repeating oneself

1

three words

1

scene; setting; scene (in a movie, play); shot; state of the market

1

very much; very many; more and more

3

to catch sight of; to see; to suppose; to assume from appearances

1

riding; ride; spread (of paints); -seater (e.g. two-seater); (getting into the) mood; (entering into the) spirit

1

bad feeling; feeling bad; disagreeable; unpleasant; revolting; gross

1