New Entries/Amendments for 2008-02-10

These are the submissions received via the WWW forms for this day. I (Jim Breen) will annotate the submission if I think it needs to be amended or rejected or if I have a question about it. Otherwise it can be assumed that it has been accepted. You can see how it will look in EDICT by looking at the "diffs" file for this day or the next in the diffs directory.
Annotations completed: 10 Feb.
Headword 1東根笹
Reading 1あずまねざさ
Reading 2アズマネザサ
Part-of-speechn
Miscuk
English 1Pleioblastus chino (species of bamboo grass)
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs, google
NameRene Malenfant
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Headword 1矢竹
Headword 2箭竹
Reading 1やだけ
Part-of-speechn
English 1(1) bamboo arrow shaft
English 2(2) (uk) arrow bamboo (Pseudosasa japonica)
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs, wiki
NameRene Malenfant
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Current Entry矢 [や] /(n) arrow/(P)/ (1537760)
Headword 1
Headword 2
Reading 1
Reading 2
Part-of-speechn
English 1arrow
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
Commentさ=ok
NameRene Malenfant
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment

Headword 1
Headword 2
Reading 1すず
Part-of-speechn
Miscarch
English 1(1) Sasamorpha borealis (species of bamboo grass unique to Japan)
English 2(2) shoots of this plant
Cross-reference篠竹
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Headword 1
Reading 1かん
Part-of-speechn
English 1culm (hollow stem of a grass)
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Headword 1根笹
Headword 2千里竹
Reading 1ねざさ
Part-of-speechn
English 1dwarf bamboo (varieties that thrive in western Japan)
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
Commentit would be nice if gg5 had something better
NameRene Malenfant
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Current Entryレコーダー(P);レコーダ /(n) recorder/(P)/ (1144920)
Headword 1レコーダー
Headword 2レコーダ
Headword 3リコーダー
Part-of-speechn
English 1(1) (not リコーダー) (See テープレコーダー) recorder (i.e. tape recorder)
English 2(2) recorder (musical instrument)
Referencehttp://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/search.php?MT=レコーダー&kind=jn
Comment大辞林 suggests that レコーダー can be either sense, so they may as well be combined into one entry.
NamePaul Blay
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment Yes, GG5 does the same. I've made a composite レコーダー/リコーダー entry, with the "tape recorder" sense restricted to レコーダー.

Headword 1篠笛
Reading 1しのぶえ
Part-of-speechn
English 1Japanese transverse bamboo flute (high-pitched; usu. with seven holes)
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Headword 1能管
Reading 1のうかん
Part-of-speechn
English 1noh flute (transverse bamboo flute with seven holes; approx. 39 cm long)
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Headword 1スライバー
Part-of-speechn
English 1sliver (strand of loose fibers)
Cross-reference
Referencedaij
NameRene Malenfant
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Headword 1
Reading 1しの
Reading 2しぬ
Part-of-speechn
English 1(1) (See 篠竹) thin-culmed dwarf bamboo (growing in clusters)
English 2(2) (しの only) (See 篠笛) (abbr) Japanese transverse bamboo flute (high-pitched; usu. with seven holes)
English 3(3) (しの only) sliver (strand of loose fibers)
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
Commentしぬ=ok
NameRene Malenfant
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Headword 1高麗笛
Headword 2狛笛
Reading 1こまぶえ
Part-of-speechn
English 1Korean flute (horizontal bamboo flute with six holes; highest-pitched flute used in gagaku)
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Headword 1竜笛
Headword 2龍笛
Reading 1りゅうてき
Reading 2りょうてき
Part-of-speechn
English 1dragon flute (medium-pitched bamboo transverse flute with seven-holes)
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
Comment龍笛=oK
NameRene Malenfant
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Current Entry縦笛 [たてぶえ] /(n) recorder (the musical instrument)/ (1709490)
Headword 1縦笛
Headword 2竪笛
Reading 1たてぶえ
Part-of-speechn
English 1(See 横笛) end-blown flute (esp. the recorder)
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
Submission Typeamend
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Current Entry竪(oK) [たて] /(n) length/height/ (2097090)
Headword 1
Reading 1たて
Part-of-speechn
English 1length
English 2height
Commentdelete--merge
NameRene Malenfant
Submission Typeamend
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Current Entry横笛 [よこぶえ] /(n) flute/fife/ (1180940)
Headword 1横笛
Reading 1よこぶえ
Reading 2おうてき
Reading 3ようじょう
Reading 4おうじゃく
Part-of-speechn
English 1(See 縦笛) transverse flute (e.g. a fife)
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
Commentようじょう,おうじゃく=ok
NameRene Malenfant
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Current Entry縦 [たて] /(n) length/height/(P)/ (1335640)
Headword 1
Headword 2
Headword 3
Reading 1たて
Part-of-speechn
English 1(1) the vertical
English 2height
English 3(2) front-to-back
English 4length
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Current Entryシステム5 /(n) System 5/ (1060310)
Headword 1システム5
Part-of-speechn
English 1System 5
CommentIt would be nice to know if this is システムファイブ or システムご.
NamePaul Blay
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment Seems to be システムファイブ. System V is the more common English.

Current Entryべた付く物;べたつく物 [べたつくもの] /(n) sticky substance/goo/ (2037350)
Headword 1べた付く物
Headword 2べたつく物
Reading 1べたつくもの
Part-of-speechn
English 1sticky substance
English 2goo
Comment9 hits, some from Edict.
NamePaul Blay
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Headword 1ダルシマー
Part-of-speechn
English 1(hammered) dulcimer
Referencekoj, daij
NameRene Malenfant
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Headword 1止め具
Reading 1とめぐ
Part-of-speechn
English 1catch
English 2check
English 3fastener
Referencehttp://eow.alc.co.jp/%E6%AD%A2%E3%82%81%E5%85%B7/UTF-8/
NamePaul Blay
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Current Entry洋琴 [ようきん] /(n) (obs) piano/ (1794500)
Headword 1洋琴
Reading 1ようきん
Part-of-speechn
English 1(1) yangqin (Chinese hammered dulcimer)
English 2(2) (obs) piano
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Current Entry横 [よこ] /(n) beside/side/width/(P)/ (1180570)
Headword 1
Reading 1よこ
Part-of-speechn
English 1(1) the horizontal
English 2(2) side-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back)
English 3width/breadth
English 4(3) side (of a box, etc.)
English 5(4) beside/next to/aside
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs, prog, nc
Commenti'm not necessarily recommending this submission, but a good entry would have to contain all of this stuff
NameRene Malenfant
Submission Typeamend
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Headword 1カーヌーン
Part-of-speechn
English 1(ar:) qanun (Near-Eastern string instrument)
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Headword 1ツィンバロム
Headword 2ツィンバロン
Part-of-speechn
English 1cymbalom (large Hungarian dulcimer)
English 2cimbalom
Referencekoj, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Current Entry節 [ふし] /(n) (1) joint/knuckle/(2) tune/melody/(3) knot (in wood)/node in a bamboo stem/(P)/ (1386160)
Headword 1
Reading 1ふし
Part-of-speechn
English 1(1) joint
English 2knuckle
English 3(2) tune
English 4melody
English 5(3) knot (in wood)
English 6node in a bamboo stem
English 7(4) (See 思い当たるふしがある) part
English 8notable characteristic
Referencehttp://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/search.php?MT=ふし&kind=jn
NamePaul Blay
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Headword 1
Reading 1しつ
Part-of-speechn
English 1se (ancient Chinese plucked zither, usu. with 25 or 23 strings)
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Headword 1システム手帳
Reading 1システムてちょう
Part-of-speechn
English 1personal organiser (e.g. Filofax)
Referencehttp://www.filofax.com/int/productRegistration/default.asp?lid=13

FILOFAXシステム手帳 ユーザー登録
言語/国を選択してください

Personal Organiser Registration
Please select your language/country:
CommentFilofax has gone the way of hoover around my way - 固有名詞から名詞になってしまいました。
NamePaul Blay
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Headword 1サウン
Part-of-speechn
English 1(my: tzaung) saung (Burmese harp)
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Current Entryマンドリン /(n) (1) mandarin/(2) mandolin/(P)/ (1130180)
Headword 1マンドリン
Part-of-speechn
English 1mandolin
Commentno dictionary has "mandarin" (not even infoseek), and there are no google image hits of mandarins in the first ten pages. surely confusion with マンダリン
NameRene Malenfant
Submission Typeamend
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Current Entryシタール /(n) sitar/ (1060580)
Headword 1シタール
Part-of-speechn
English 1(hi:) sitar
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Headword 1ウード
Part-of-speechn
English 1(ar: ud) oud (lute-like instrument of Arabic origin)
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Headword 1キタラ
Part-of-speechn
English 1(el:) kithara (ancient Greek musical instrument)
English 2cithara
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Current Entryバラライカ /(n) balalaika/ (1099670)
Headword 1バラライカ
Part-of-speechn
English 1(ru:) balalaika
NameRene Malenfant
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Headword 1サーランギ
Part-of-speechn
English 1(hi:) sarangi (violin-like instrument of Indian origin)
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Headword 1馬頭琴
Reading 1ばとうきん
Part-of-speechn
English 1morin khuur (stringed musical instrument of Mongolian origin)
English 2matouqin
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Headword 1モリンフール
Part-of-speechn
Miscobsc
English 1(mn:) morin khuur (stringed musical instrument of Mongolian origin)
Cross-reference馬頭琴
Referencedaijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Headword 1ラバーブ
Part-of-speechn
English 1(ar: rabab) rebab (stringed instrument of Arabic origin)
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Current Entryヴィオラ /(n) (it:) viola/(P)/ (1149460)
Headword 1ヴィオラ
Part-of-speechn
English 1(it:) viola
Commentdelete--merge
NameRene Malenfant
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Current Entryビオラ /(n) (it:) viola/(P)/ (1104640)
Headword 1ビオラ
Headword 2ヴィオラ
Part-of-speechn
English 1(it:) viola
Commentヴィオラ falls just short of (P)
NameRene Malenfant
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Headword 1小鼓
Reading 1こつづみ
Reading 2しょうこ
Part-of-speechn
English 1small hand drum
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Headword 1ムリダンガム
Headword 2ムリダンガ
Part-of-speechn
English 1(hi:) mridangam (double-headed barrel drum of Indian origin)
Referencekoj, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Headword 1タブラ
Part-of-speechn
English 1(hi:) tabla (Indian hand drums)
Referencekoj, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Headword 1タブララサ
Part-of-speechn
English 1(la:) tabula rasa
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Current Entry太鼓 [たいこ] /(n) drum/tambourine/(P)/ (1408280)
Headword 1太鼓
Reading 1たいこ
Part-of-speechn
English 1drum
Commentany reference for tambourine?
NameRene Malenfant
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Current Entryドラム /(n) drum/(P)/ (1088890)
Headword 1ドラム
Part-of-speechn
English 1(1) drum
English 2(2) (See ダラム) dram
English 3drachm
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Headword 1ダラム
Part-of-speechn
English 1dram
English 2drachm
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Headword 1ムックリ
Part-of-speechn
English 1Ainu mouth harp
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Headword 1むっくり
Part-of-speechadv
Part-of-speechadv-to
Part-of-speechvs
English 1(1) (rising) abruptly
English 2(2) plump
English 3rotund
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Current Entry大鼓 [おおつづみ] /(n) large hand drum/ (1413640)
Headword 1大鼓
Headword 2大革
Reading 1おおつづみ
Reading 2おおかわ
Part-of-speechn
English 1large hand drum
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
Commentおおつづみ=大鼓 only
NameRene Malenfant
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Current Entryインダス文明 [インダスぶんめい] /(n) Indus (valley) civilization (civilisation)/ (1959620)
Headword 1文明史
Reading 1ぶんめいし
Part-of-speechn
English 1Civilization's history
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment DON'T suggest a new entry my amending an old one.

Current Entry螽斯;蟋蟀 [きりぎりす;キリギリス] /(n) (1) (uk) Japanese katydid (Gampsocleis buergeri)/(2) katydid/bush-cricket (Tettigoniidae)/(3) (arch) cricket/ (1572145)
Headword 1螽斯
Headword 2蟋蟀
Reading 1きりぎりす
Reading 2キリギリス
Part-of-speechn
English 1(1) (uk) Japanese katydid (Gampsocleis buergeri)
English 2(2) katydid
English 3bush-cricket (Tettigoniidae)
English 4long-horned grasshopper
English 5(3) (arch) cricket
Reference1匹のキリギリスと多くのアリが野原に住んでいた。
A grasshopper and many ants lived in a field.
CommentIt's a common, not a technically accurate name, but if キリギリス is going to be used as a 訳語 for grasshopper we might as well have it.
NamePaul Blay
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Headword 1お変わりありませんか
Reading 1おかわりありませんか
Part-of-speechexp
Miscpol
English 1how have (you) been? (gen. used after some time apart)
English 2lit: nothing (untoward) has happened, has it?
Comment46,700 Google hits
NamePaul Blay
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Current Entry変わりない [かわりない] /(exp) (See 変わりなく) no change/no difference/ (2080940)
Headword 1変わりない
Reading 1かわりない
Part-of-speechexp
English 1(1) (See 変わりなく) no change
English 2no difference
English 3(2) (See no お変わりありませんか) accidents or incidents
English 4no unusual events
NamePaul Blay
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Current Entry程に [ほどに] /(conj) (1) (uk) (arch) because/the reason being/(2) while/during/(adv) (3) to the extent that/more and more/ (2175420)
Headword 1程に
Reading 1ほどに
Part-of-speechconj
English 1(1) (uk) (arch) because
English 2the reason being
English 3(2) while
English 4during
English 5(adv) (3) (See 程) to the extent that
English 6more and more
NamePaul Blay
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Current Entry追っ掛け;追っかけ [おっかけ] /(n) (1) chase scene/(2) groupie/paparazzo/(n-adv) (3) soon/by-and-by/ (2012420)
Headword 1追っかけ
Headword 2追っ掛け
Reading 1おっかけ
Part-of-speechn
English 1(1) chase scene
English 2(2) groupie
English 3paparazzo
English 4(n-adv) (3) soon
English 5by-and-by
Comment1,780,000 Google hits for the, new, first headword.
NamePaul Blay
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Current Entry不要(P);不用 [ふよう] /(adj-na,n) non-business/of no use/waste (products)/unnecessary/(P)/ (1602900)
Headword 1不要
Headword 2不用
Reading 1ふよう
Part-of-speechadj-na,n
English 1non-business
English 2of no use
English 3waste (products)
English 4unnecessary
Comment>Kenkyusha 中辞典 combines 不要/不用, but GG5 separates while
>giving very similar definitions. Can you provide distinct
>translations?

不要 [ふよう] adj-na,adj-no,n
(See 不用) unnecessary
unneeded

不用 [ふよう] adj-na,adj-no,n
(1) (See 不要) disused
unused
(2) useless
wasteful
of no use


otherwise you could keep them together with usu. tags

不要,不用 [ふよう] adj-na,adj-no,n
(1) (esp. 不要) unnecessary
unneeded
inessential
nonessential
(2) (esp. 不用) disused
unused
(3) (esp. 不用) useless
wasteful
of no use
NameRene Malenfant
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Headword 1編木
Headword 2拍板
Reading 1びんざさら
Part-of-speechn
English 1percussion instrument made of small pieces wood strung together
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
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Headword 1拍板
Reading 1はくはん
Part-of-speechn
English 1paiban (clapper made from several flat pieces of wood)
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
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Current Entry船(P);舟 [ふね] /(n) ship/boat/watercraft/shipping/vessel/steamship/(P)/ (1602800)
Headword 1
Headword 2
Headword 3
Reading 1ふね
Part-of-speechn
English 1(1) (船,舟 only) (舟 is often small and hand-propelled) ship
English 2boat
English 3watercraft
English 4vessel
English 5steamship
English 6(2) tank/tub/vat/trough
English 7(n-suf,ctr) (3) (船,舟 only) counter for boat-shaped containers (i.e. of sashimi)
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Current Entry槽 [そう] /(n) (1) cistern/bath/tank/chamber/(2) bunker (coal)/(3) cell (electrical)/(4) vessel/ (2027990)
Headword 1
Reading 1そう
Part-of-speechn
English 1(See 琵琶) body (of a biwa)
Commenti think this is a kanwa entry that got confused with 槽[ふね] and sorted instead of trashed


kojien has 3 kanwa senses for そう and one non-kanwa sense. daijisen has the non-kanwa sense only, and daijirin excludes this entry altogether
NameRene Malenfant
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Headword 1
Reading 1うけ
Part-of-speechn
Miscarch
English 1basin
English 2tub
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Headword 1馬槽
Reading 1うまぶね
Reading 2まぶね
Part-of-speechn
Miscarch
English 1horse trough
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Headword 1馬草
Headword 2
Reading 1まぐさ
Reading 2うまくさ
Part-of-speechn
English 1fodder
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Headword 1酒槽
Reading 1さかぶね
Reading 2しゅそう
Part-of-speechn
English 1sake cask
English 2sake tun
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
NameRene Malenfant
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Current Entry入場を断り [にゅうじょうをことわり] /(exp) No Admittance/ (1466370)
Headword 1入場を断り
Reading 1にゅうじょうをことわり
Part-of-speechexp
English 1No Admittance
Comment> The wrong one gets over 500 hits in Google,
Just 30 if you look at the actual pages of search results (click on last link). Also that includes
入場を断り、(文語 equivalent of 入場を断って)
入場を断り始めます
and such like semi-false positives.
NamePaul Blay
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Headword 1誹毀
Reading 1ひき
Part-of-speechn
English 1defamation
English 2libel
English 3calumny
English 4slander
Cross-reference中傷
ReferenceKenkyusha's New J-E Dict.
NameDavid Stormer
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Headword 1プラズモン共鳴
Reading 1プラズモンきょうめい
Part-of-speechn
English 1plasmon resonance
Cross-referencesurface plasmon resonance 表面プラズモン共鳴
Referencehttp://www.uksaf.org/tech/spr.html
http://www.autolabj.com/spr.htm
Commentscientific term found while translating
NameSandra Ogata
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Editorial Comment Removed the xref (needs to be to another entry.)

Headword 1並べ替え
Reading 1ならべかえ
Part-of-speechn
Part-of-speechvs
English 1{comp} sort
English 2sorting
CommentThis is a very common word (13,200,000 Google hits). I suggest it be 'upgraded' from compdic.
NamePaul Blay
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Headword 1琉歌
Reading 1りゅうか
Part-of-speechn
English 1Okinawan fixed form poetry
Referencehttp://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%90%89%E6%AD%8C
NameJeroen Hoek
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