jpdb beta

strike (i.e. industrial action)

3

hearsay; learning by hearsay

1

to raise; to raise up; to wake; to wake up; to cause; to bring about; to start

3

to reach one's ears; to come to one's knowledge; to hear about; to learn of (by chance)

1

information; news; intelligence; information; data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.

5

to gather; to collect; to assemble

2

hmmm; uh-huh; murmur indicating approval, comprehension, etc.

1

what to do

1

to herd; to drive; to corner; to force someone into doing; to go hard; to push yourself

2

plot of land; lot; soil; locality; region; place

1

anyone; anybody; everyone; everybody; whoever

1

timid; faint-hearted; wimpish

1

to leave behind

1

natural; reasonable; understandable

1

How did you like ...?; How about ...?; What's going on?; How's it going?

1

hard to say; inexpressible; hesitant to say; embarrassing; delicate

1

we; us

2

to be thirsty; to feel thirsty; to thirst for; to crave

1

eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; look; stare; notice

1

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

1

by all rights; properly speaking; legally speaking

2

year; age; years; past one's prime; old age

2

to grumble; to complain

2

thoroughly; completely; severely; harshly; (arch.) scattered; (arch.) disconnected

2

exhausted; tired; withered; worn out; boiling until shapeless or mushy; tediously

1

irregular

1

to throw down; to throw out; to abandon; to resign; to give freely; to give generously

1

division of labour; division of labor; splitting into groups (e.g. to search)

1

school term; semester

2

until then; till then; to that extent; the end of it; all there is to it

3

to be prolonged; to drag on

2

(if) by some chance; by some possibility; in the unlikely event that; (unlikely event of) emergency; the worst(-case scenario)

2

opening ceremony (of the school term)

1

work; job; labor; work

6

to press against; to push against; to force against; to foist on (task, responsibility); to impose (one's will)

2

(just) making sure; just to be sure; just in case; for caution's sake

1

(committee) chairman; president

3

assistant; associate; duplicate; copy; adverb

2

early (days); initial stage; initial

2

to let (someone) hear; to tell (e.g. a story); to make (someone) listen; to make (someone) understand; to grip (someone) with skilful singing, storytelling, etc.; to hold (someone) enchanted by

1

no!; no no!; no, not at all

1

that; the matter in question

3

dubious; puzzled; suspicious

2

incomplete; unfinished

1

core; heart (of the matter); point; crux; kernel

1

to say previously unspoken thoughts; to start saying; to court someone

1

to open (e.g. doors); to open (e.g. business, etc.); to be empty; to be vacant; to be available; to be open (e.g. neckline, etc.); to have been opened (of one's eyes, mouth, etc.)

2

huge; big; gargantuan

3

dryer (esp. hair); drier; blower

2

to dry (clothes, etc.); to desiccate

1