jpdb beta

to knock (ideas) against each other; to present competing ideas; to have a lively exchange of ideas; to smash together; to crash into each other; to throw at each other

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conquest (of a difficulty, illness, handicap, etc.); overcoming; bringing under control; subjugation; victory over

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sleepiness; drowsiness

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fruit; nut; seed; (in broth) pieces of meat, vegetable, etc.; content; substance

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fruit juice

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finely chopped (cooking)

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regional cuisine; local cuisine

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udon; thick Japanese wheat noodles

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manjū (steamed bun) with meat filling

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plan; device; idea; design; contrivance; conception

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explosive; sudden and dramatic (of an increase in sales, popularity, etc.); explosive; rapid

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full stomach; filling one's stomach; eating one's fill; complete; total; full

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rough (estimate, manner, etc.); crude; broad; loose; careless (work)

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pasta

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wheat flour

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home (of something); place famous for its ...; place of origin; birthplace; morning session; last session in the morning

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Italy

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law

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buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum); soba; Japanese buckwheat noodles

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to bear fruit; to ripen

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cultivation

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farmer; farming family; farmhouse

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growing wild (naturally); native

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noodles; (arch.) flour

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junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school

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period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness

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buckwheat flour

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soba noodles eaten at night on New Year's Eve

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chopsticks

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to be torn off; to come off; to be torn to pieces; to be torn to shreds

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master; teacher; stable master

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training; practice; discipline; ascetic practices

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(husked grains of) rice; staple (product, etc.); necessity

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mashed rice pressed on a cryptomeria skewer and toasted (used as dumplings in soups)

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sailfin sandfish (Arctoscopus japonicus); Japanese sandfish

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salted and fermented fish sauce from Akita

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seafood

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plain; moor; prairie

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loitering; roaming; sauntering; wandering about; prowling

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covered wagon; prairie schooner

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smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)

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to build a market for; to promote (a product); to promote oneself; to sell oneself; to sell heavily

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puzzling; tangled; complicated; complex

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time lag

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person who swaggers about under borrowed authority; small man acting arrogantly through borrowed authority; (lit.) a fox that borrows the authority of a tiger

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intimidation; threat; bluster

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to threaten; to intimidate; to be threatening

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from one's side; from the side (of something); from someone unconnected; from someone uninvolved

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to snatch (and run); to carry off; to swipe; to scoop up (and remove; sand, earth, etc.)

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to be robbed of one's due; (lit.) to have one's fried tofu snatched by a black kite

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