New Entries/Amendments for 2009-03-21

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: 21 Mar.
Headword 1兵長
Reading 1へいちょう
Part-of-speechn
English 1Corporal (American army)
Referencehttp://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/荵膣
CommentThe current entry says "lance corporal". According to my source, that is an incorrect translation no matter what nation's military you look to.
NameName
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment My refs say it's the old army/navy rank for which 士長 is used now. The usual translations would be "leading private, private first-class, lance-corporal (UK, etc.), etc." The Japanese wiki page is rather inadequate. I have put in an xref to 士長, and made the gloss "former rank in the Japanese army and navy, equiv. to private first-class, lance corporal, etc.
PS: don't use "new" for amendments.

Current Entry相互運用性 [そうごうんようせい] /(n) {comp} interoperability/ (2370920)
Headword 1相互運用性
Reading 1そうごうんようせい
Part-of-speechn
English 1interoperability
ReferenceJapanese Wikipedia
CommentThis is not strictly a computer term, so it might be better not to have the {comp} flag.
Other language optioneng
Namelinguist
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment

Current Entry恐面 [こわもて] /(n,adj-no) fierce look/frightening look/hard face/ (2414800)
Headword 1恐面
Reading 1こわもて
Part-of-speechn,adj-no
English 1fierce look
English 2frightening look
English 3hard face
Comment恐面 【こわもて】 (n,adj-no) fierce look; frightening look; hard face [G][GI][S][A]
強面; 怖面 【こわもて】 (n,adj-no) (uk) hard-faced; aggressive [Ex][G][GI][S][A]

Merge.
Other language optioneng
NameName
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment


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Current Entry腹熟し [はらごなし] /(n,vs,vi) exercise to help digestion/WI1/
Headword 1腹ごなし
Headword 2腹熟し
Reading 1はらごなし
Part-of-speechn,vs
English 1exercise to help digestion
Commentupgrade from wi1, adding 腹ごなし as the main entry (far more common than 腹熟し).
Other language optioneng
NameName
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment

Headword 1時数
Reading 1じすう
Part-of-speechn
English 1number of hours
Reference時数管理(工数管理). 目的. 工事の工数計画を立て、この計画を遂行することによって計画された利益を確保することにある。
NameName
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment

Headword 1夕張メロン
Reading 1ゆうばりメロン
Part-of-speechn
English 1Yuubari Melon
English 2a type of sweet orange melon grown in Yuubari City, Hokkaidou
Referencehttp://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/夕張メロン
NameBecki Kanou
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment Tempted to add "grossly over-priced cantaloupe".