jpdb beta

merchant; trader; expert (in a trade or profession); professional; woman working in the nightlife business (bar or nightclub hostess, geisha, etc.); demimondaine

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it's nothing; don't mention it; no thanks necessary

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reason for living; something one lives for; purpose in life; raison d'être

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Number of the Beast (i.e. 666)

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squaring; multiplying (a number) by itself; second power

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system; lineage; ancestry; group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); close (evolutionary) relationship

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half and half; fifty-fifty

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external; foreign (e.g. relations); public (e.g. image)

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danger; Chinese "rooftop" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)

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greens; vegetables; rape (Brassica napus); rapeseed

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to obey respectfully; to humble oneself; to sit straight (upright, respectfully, attentively)

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opinion; intention; thought

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jackal (carnivores, Canis aureus ssp., C. adustus, C. mesomelas)

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continuing to pitch

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stopover (during a train or bus journey)

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rebuilding; reconstruction; rehabilitation; protoform reconstruction

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unable to stomach; sticking in one's throat; displeased with

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Shinto priest

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oppressive rule; tyrannical regime; despotism

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good and evil; purity and impurity; voiced and unvoiced consonants

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for now; for the time being; for the present; though not quite satisfactorily; after a fashion

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cannot bring oneself (to do); unable to bear (e.g. seeing)

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the deceased; the departed

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to rub; to chafe; to strike (match); to lose (e.g. a match); to forfeit; to squander one's money (e.g. through gambling, Pachinko, etc.)

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to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)

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(act of) encouragement; stimulus; incentive

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triumphant return; returning in triumph

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to correct; to touch up; to smarten up; to put one's hand in (e.g. pocket)

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icicle; ice pillar (for cooling a room); (arch.) ice

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to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)

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to appear; to come in sight; to become visible; to be expressed (e.g. emotions); to become apparent (e.g. trends, effects)

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to compete ruthlessly; (lit.) to sharpen swords

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night sky

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to take (a person) unawares; to make a surprise attack

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to knit; to plait; to braid; to compile (anthology, dictionary, etc.); to edit

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to be unable to understand; to baffle one's understanding; to be beyond one's comprehension

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(practice of) self-injury; (habit of) self-harm

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to face on; to look out on to

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difference in temperature; difference in degrees of enthusiasm, interest, commitment, etc.

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ulterior motive; plot; scheme; complicated circumstances; intricacies

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classification; assortment

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among (other things); especially; particularly; at the same time; simultaneously; at once

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existing alongside (each other); mixture; intermingling

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consistency; coherence; one kan (approx. 3.75 kg, 8.3 lb); one piece of sushi

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to revere; to respect; to worship

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billboard; advertising sign

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pretending not to recognize (recognise); feigned ignorance

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strategy; stratagem; trick; scheme; plot

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self-defense; self-defence

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strategy; artifice

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