New Entries/Amendments for 2009-12-18

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: 18 Dec.
Current Entry建玉 [たてぎょく] /(n) (1) position (in finance: amount of a security either owned or owed by an investor or dealer)/(2) open interest/(3) sales or purchase contract/(4) outstanding account/ (1984650)
Headword 1建玉
Reading 1たてぎょく
Part-of-speechn
English 1(1) position (in finance: amount of a security either owned or owed by an investor or dealer)
English 2(2) open interest
English 3(3) sales or purchase contract
English 4(4) outstanding account
Commentare all of these senses necessary?

koj, daijr, daijs, and eijiro all have only one sense

i know nothing of business/finance, but i think 'position' alone works here
Other language optioneng
NameRene Malenfant
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment I agree they are not different senses. The 研究社ビジネス英和辞典 has "open interest". I think I'll leave all the glosses in - they flesh it out.

Current Entry弾 [たま] /(n) bullet/shot/shell/(P)/ (1419330)
Headword 1
Reading 1たま
Part-of-speechn
English 1bullet
English 2shot
English 3shell
Commentdelete--merge, perhaps... see next submission

Other language optioneng
NameRene Malenfant
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment

Current Entry球 [きゅう(P);たま] /(n) globe/sphere/ball/(P)/ (1229880)
Headword 1
Reading 1きゅう
Part-of-speechn
English 1(1) {math} sphere
English 2(suf,ctr) (2) counter for balls (in baseball)
Referencekoj,daij
Commentmerge for たま, i think
Other language optioneng
NameRene Malenfant
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment

Current Entry球 [きゅう(P);たま] /(n) globe/sphere/ball/(P)/ (1229880)
Headword 1
Reading 1きゅう
Part-of-speechn
English 1(1) {math} sphere
English 2(suf,ctr) (2) counter for balls (in baseball)
Referencekoj,daij
Commentmerge for たま, i think

and this probably s
Other language optioneng
NameRene Malenfant
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment "and this probably s"って?

Current Entry球 [きゅう(P);たま] /(n) globe/sphere/ball/(P)/ (1229880)
Headword 1
Reading 1きゅう
Part-of-speechn
English 1(1) {math} sphere
English 2(suf,ctr) (2) counter for balls (in baseball)
Referencekoj,daij
Commentmerge for たま, i think
Other language optioneng
NameRene Malenfant
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment

Current Entry玉(P);珠 [たま] /(n) (1) ball/sphere/(n-suf) (2) (usu. だま) coin/(n) (3) jewel/pearl/(4) (sl) testicles/(n) (5) staple (for a stapler)/(6) person (when commenting on their nature)/character/(P)/ (1240530)
Headword 1
Headword 2
Headword 3
Headword 4
Reading 1たま
Part-of-speechn
English 1(1) ball/sphere/globe/orb/(2) bead (of sweat, dew, etc.)/drop/droplet/(3) (esp. 球) ball (in sports)/(4) pile (of noodles, etc.)
English 2(5) (esp. 弾; also written as 弾丸) bullet
English 3(6) (esp. 球) bulb (i.e. a light bulb)
English 4(7) lens (of glasses, etc.)
English 5(8) (esp. 玉,珠) bead (of an abacus)
English 6(9) (See 金玉) (abbr) (esp. 玉) ball (i.e. a testicle)
English 7(10) egg
English 8(11) (esp. 玉,珠; also written as 璧) gem/jewel (esp. spherical; sometimes used figuratively)
English 9(12) female entertainer (e.g. a geisha)
English 1(13) (derog) person (when commenting on their nature)/character
English 1(14) item, funds or person used as part of a plot/(15) staple (for a stapler)
English 1(n-suf) (16) (usu. だま) coin/(n-pref) (17) precious/beautiful/excellent
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs, meikyo, prog, nc
Commentthe merge with 弾 might not be for the best...

in which case the 'bullet' sense should be removed and it might be possible to merge 弾[たま] with 弾丸.
Other language optioneng
NameRene Malenfant
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment Only Daijirin rolls the 弾 in with the rest. Let's see how it goes.


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Current Entry璧 [へき] /(?) ???/RH/
Headword 1
Reading 1へき
Part-of-speechn
English 1bi (ancient Chinese artifact; flat jade or glass disc with a circular hole in the centre)
Referencekoj, daij, wiki
Other language optioneng
NameRene Malenfant
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment

Current Entry玉 [ぎょく] /(n) (1) precious stone (esp. jade)/(2) (at a restaurant) egg (or foods containing egg, esp. tamago-yaki nigirizushi)/(3) (abbr) king (shogi)/ (1921990)
Headword 1
Reading 1ぎょく
Part-of-speechn
English 1(1) (also formerly read as ごく) gemstone (esp. jade)
English 2(2) {food} egg (sometimes esp. as a sushi topping)
English 3(3) stock or security being traded/product being bought or sold
English 4(4) (See 建玉) (abbr) position (in finance, the amount of a security either owned or owed by an investor or dealer)
English 5(5) geisha
English 6(6) (See 玉代) (abbr) time charge for a geisha/(7) (See 玉将) (abbr) king (in shoji)
Referencekoj, daijr, daijs
Other language optioneng
NameRene Malenfant
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment

Headword 1言い淀む
Reading 1いいよどむ
Part-of-speechv5m
English 1hesitate to say
ReferenceGenius Japanese-English Dictionary 2nd Edition
NameChris Hennessy
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment Already an entry.

Headword 1学位記
Reading 1がくいき
Part-of-speechn
English 1diploma
Referencehttp://ejje.weblio.jp/content/diploma
NameFrancis Bond
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment

Current Entry草冠 [くさかんむり;そうこう] /(n) (1) kanji
Headword 1草冠
Headword 2
Reading 1くさかんむり
Reading 2そうこう
Part-of-speechn
English 1(1) kanji "grass radical" (radical 140)
English 2(2) grass crown
Referencekojien
Commentそうこう only
Other language optioneng
NameScott
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment

Headword 1艸部
Reading 1そうぶ
Part-of-speechn
English 1(see 草冠) kanji "grass radical" (radical 140)
Referencewikipedia
NameScott
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment


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Current Entry学際領域 [がくさいりょういき] /(?) ???/RH/
Headword 1学際領域
Reading 1がくさいりょういき
Part-of-speech?
English 1inter-disciplinary area (academic)
English 2RH
Other language optioneng
NameName
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment