| Headword 1 | 切磋琢磨 |
| Reading 1 | せっさたくま |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | Like stones rubbing together, to polish or stimulate one another toward greater heights. |
| Reference | 広辞苑：
玉・意思などを切りみがくように、道徳・学問に勉め励んでやまないこと。[And next is the part I like:]また、仲間どうし互いに励まし合って学徳をみがくこと。 |
| Comment | This is a special phrase for me. My Japanese roommate in college gave me a little wooden plaque with "Sessa Takuma" written on it in Kanji. The way he explained it, as fellow students or peers strive with/against each other, they stimulate/motivate each other to greater accomplishment. Literally like the kanji expresses: cut, grind, polish, polish...
I just didn't see this meaning in WWWJDIC current definition, and wanted to suggest that it be added. If you can think of a more concise way to express it than I have above, that would be great. |
| Name | Jonathon English |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment | I don't think it really means that. 切磋琢磨し合う has that meaning. I suspect your roommate was being over-literal in the translation. I'll add 切磋琢磨し合う. |
| Current Entry | 農業国 [のうぎょうこく] /(n) agricultural country/ (1827230) |
| Headword 1 | 農業国 |
| Reading 1 | のうぎょうこく |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | agricultural country |
| English 2 | agrarian nation |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 農業国 [のうぎょうこく] /(n) agricultural country/ (1827230) |
| Headword 1 | 農業国 |
| Reading 1 | のうぎょうこく |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | agricultural country |
| English 2 | agrarian nation |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | できっこない /(exp) can never be able to/ (2063900) |
| Headword 1 | 出来っこない |
| Reading 1 | できっこない |
| Part-of-speech | exp |
| English 1 | (uk) (See っこない) can never be able to |
| Comment | > With some hesitancy, I am wondering if the reading should be できてこない.
No. Or at least not usually. It should have a kanji headword, though. できっこない 113,000 Google hits 出来っこない 27,100 できてこない 9,580 出来てこない 905 I'm pretty sure it's sometimes used on other verbs, if not as often. 勝てっこない 26,100 なれっこない 11,800 分かりっこない 11,500 うまくいきっこない 5,620 入れっこない 2,000 (N.B. read はいれっこない) |
| Name | Paul |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 建て直す;建直す [たてなおす] /(v5s,vt) to rebuild/to reconstruct/ (1846550) |
| Headword 1 | 建て直す |
| Headword 2 | 建直す |
| Reading 1 | たてなおす |
| Part-of-speech | v5s,vt |
| English 1 | to rebuild |
| English 2 | to reconstruct |
| Comment | Now here is where I come unglued with the P words and their validity(?). 建て直す is about as common as common can be; yet doesn't warrant a P marker. Instead 再建 gets the P marker (overlapping meanings). Solution as Jim Rose: Someone please buy me a black and white TV and let me have a go at it.
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| Name | Dennis |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment | As far as I can tell, 再建 is very common, and 建て直す and its inflections fall well short of P frequencies. |
| Current Entry | 無駄遣い(P);無駄使い [むだづかい] /(n,vs) waste money on/squander money on/flog a dead horse/(P)/ (1530520) |
| Headword 1 | 無駄遣い |
| Headword 2 | 無駄使い |
| Reading 1 | むだづかい |
| Part-of-speech | n,vs |
| English 1 | waste money on |
| English 2 | squander money on |
| English 3 | flog a dead horse |
| Comment | Not just a waste of "money" but a waste of any resource: energy, space, time, etc. - as well. |
| Name | Dennis |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 屋;家 [や] /(suf) (1) (usu. 屋) (See パン屋) (something) shop/(suf) (2) (usu. 屋) (See 殺し屋) somebody who sells (something) or works as (something)/(suf) (3) (usu. 屋) (See 照れ屋) somebody with a (certain) personality trait/(n) (4) (usu. 家) house/(5) roof/ (2082160) |
| Headword 1 | 屋 |
| Headword 2 | 家 |
| Reading 1 | や |
| Part-of-speech | suf |
| English 1 | (1) (usu. 屋) (See パン屋) (something) shop |
| English 2 | (suf) (2) (usu. 屋) (See 殺し屋) somebody who sells (something) or works as (something) |
| English 3 | (suf) (3) (usu. 屋) (See 照れ屋) somebody with a (certain) personality trait |
| English 4 | (n) (4) (usu. 家) house |
| English 5 | (5) roof |
| Comment | I dunno if you want to more strongly emphasize (and hence be really "cool" like Eijiro) the very, very disparaging/trashing 屋 usage as a suffix. I don't use it often but occasionally when I get really angry (very, very seldom of course) I append it to just about anything I want to cast in a bad light. As you know, 政治屋 is very common in this respect. Use with extreme caution and understanding. |
| Name | Dennis |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment | I'll add "can be derog." to sense two. |
| Headword 1 | 正八胞体 |
| Reading 1 | せいはちほうたい |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | tesseract |
| Reference | http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/���罨≦��莇�腴���剛�� |
| Submission Type | new |
| Editorial Comment |
| Headword 1 | 四次元超立方体 |
| Reading 1 | しじげんちょうりっぽうたい |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | tesseract |
| Cross-reference | 正八胞体 |
| Reference | As previous submission. |
| Submission Type | new |
| Editorial Comment |
| Headword 1 | 度数 |
| Reading 1 | どすう |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | frequency |
| English 2 | number of points (on a scale) |
| English 3 | measurable strength (optical lens, alcoholic drink, ) |
| Reference | Here is a usage sample i found today in a friend's blog:
前のメガネの度数がわからないので、新たに視力測り直してもらった。 |
| Comment | 度数 - as, i am sure, we all know from experience - is used not for "frequency" but for many things that can be measured on a scale of some sort, such as, for example, the dioptries of a lens (as per my real life sample sentence) or the strength of an beverages. Please improve my amendment... |
| Name | Hendrik |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 当然視する [とうぜんしする] /(vs-i) to consider to be inevitable/to consider to be reasonable/TempSUB/ |
| Headword 1 | 当然視する |
| Reading 1 | とうぜんしする |
| Part-of-speech | vs-i |
| English 1 | to consider to be inevitable |
| English 2 | to consider to be reasonable |
| English 3 | TempSUB |
| Comment | > Isn't this 当然 + 視する? All the examples I could find of 当然視 were like that.
15 'real' Google hits for 当然視の, compared to 9500 odd for 当然視する. |
| Name | Paul |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Headword 1 | 条件付採録 |
| Headword 2 | 条件付き採録 |
| Reading 1 | じょうけんつきさいろく |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | conditional acceptance |
| Reference | The following is an anonymized sentence from a native speaker:
学生が英文論文誌に論文を投稿して，「条件付採録」になっています. The student submitted a paper to an English-language journal, and the result was "conditional acceptance". |
| Name | Brian Kurkoski |
| Submission Type | new |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 真っ暗闇;真暗闇 [まっくらやみ] /(adj-na,n) pitch dark/total darkness/ (1705120) |
| Headword 1 | 真っ暗闇 |
| Headword 2 | 真暗闇 |
| Reading 1 | まっくらやみ |
| Part-of-speech | adj-no,adj-na,n |
| English 1 | pitch dark |
| English 2 | total darkness |
| Comment | This seems to be more (adj-no) than (adj-na).
108,000 Google hits for "真っ暗闇の" 4,720 for "真っ暗闇な" |
| Name | Paul |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 雑居ビル [ざっきょビル] /(n) building containing a number of businesses and shops/ (1299350) |
| Headword 1 | 雑居ビル |
| Reading 1 | ざっきょビル |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | multi-tenant building |
| English 2 | social building |
| English 3 | building containing a number of businesses and shops |
| Comment | I'm not entirely convinced of either gloss I've provided, but at least they're something you could conceivably use as a 訳語. |
| Name | Paul |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 論文集 [ろんぶんしゅう] /(n) {comp} collection/ (2393000) |
| Headword 1 | 論文集 |
| Reading 1 | ろんぶんしゅう |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | collected papers |
| English 2 | collected works |
| English 3 | collection of articles and essays |
| Comment | Or something along those lines. |
| Name | Paul |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 論文誌 [ろんぶんし] /(?) UNKNOWN/RH/ |
| Headword 1 | 論文誌 |
| Reading 1 | ろんぶんし |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | (academic) journal |
| Reference |
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| Comment | Not sure if I should be leaving the RH there or not. |
| Name | Paul |
| Submission Type | new |
| Editorial Comment | It's (just) the code for "revkhenkan" A bit hard for the server to (reliably) detect and delete it. |
| Current Entry | 条件付き [じょうけんつき] /(exp) conditionally/with conditions attached/(P)/ (1356520) |
| Headword 1 | 条件付き |
| Headword 2 | 条件付 |
| Reading 1 | じょうけんつき |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | conditionally |
| English 2 | with conditions attached |
| Comment | also (adj-f)/(pref) ? |
| Name | Paul |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 条件付きエントロピー [じょうけんつきエントロピー] /(n) {comp} conditional entropy/mean conditional information content/average conditional information content/ (2366150) |
| Headword 1 | 条件付きエントロピー |
| Headword 2 | 条件付エントロピー |
| Reading 1 | じょうけんつきエントロピー |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | {comp} conditional entropy |
| English 2 | mean conditional information content |
| English 3 | average conditional information content |
| Comment | Approx. equal Google hits for both (~170) |
| Name | Paul |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 条件付きコンパイル [じょうけんつきコンパイル] /(n) {comp} conditional compilation/ (2366160) |
| Headword 1 | 条件付きコンパイル |
| Headword 2 | 条件付コンパイル |
| Reading 1 | じょうけんつきコンパイル |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | {comp} conditional compilation |
| Name | Paul |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 条件付きジャンプ [じょうけんつきジャンプ] /(n) (See 条件付き飛び越し) {comp} conditional jump/ (2366170) |
| Headword 1 | 条件付きジャンプ |
| Headword 2 | 条件付ジャンプ |
| Reading 1 | じょうけんつきジャンプ |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | (See 条件付き飛び越し) {comp} conditional jump |
| Name | Paul |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 条件付きパラメタ [じょうけんつきパラメタ] /(n) {comp} conditional (parameter)/ (2366190) |
| Headword 1 | 条件付きパラメタ |
| Reading 1 | じょうけんつきパラメタ |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | {comp} conditional (parameter) |
| Comment | About three hits that aren't from Edict.
I think this was supposed to be /equating/ 条件付き to パラメタ, not be a compound of the two. Thus I suggest this be deleted. |
| Name | Paul |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 条件付きブランチ [じょうけんつきブランチ] /(n) (See 条件付き分岐) {comp} conditional branch/ (2366205) |
| Headword 1 | 条件付きブランチ |
| Reading 1 | じょうけんつきブランチ |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | (See 条件付き分岐) {comp} (obsc) conditional branch |
| Comment | Only 23 hits - (obsc) ? |
| Name | Paul |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 行き帰り [ゆきかえり;いきかえり] /(n) going and returning (e.g. work, school)/both ways/ (1652340) |
| Headword 1 | 行き帰り |
| Reading 1 | ゆきかえり |
| Reading 2 | いきかえり |
| Part-of-speech | n,vs |
| English 1 | going and returning (e.g. work, school) |
| English 2 | both ways |
| Comment | Just adding (vs) |
| Name | Paul |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Headword 1 | 噂をすれば影が射す |
| Headword 2 | 噂をすれば影がさす |
| Reading 1 | うわさをすればかげがさす |
| Part-of-speech | exp |
| English 1 | Speak of the devil and he shall appear |
| Reference | http://www.geocities.jp/kurogo965/kotowaza2/page26.html |
| Name | Dominic Monfre |
| Submission Type | new |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 進退窮まる [しんたいきわまる] /(v5r) to be at a loss/ (1884050) |
| Headword 1 | 進退窮まる |
| Headword 2 | 進退きまわる |
| Reading 1 | しんたいきわまる |
| Part-of-speech | v5r |
| English 1 | to be at a loss |
| Name | Paul |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |