New Entries/Amendments for 2010-03-10

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.
Current Entry電探 [でんたん] /(n) (abbr) radar/ (1766000)
Headword 1電探
Reading 1でんたん
Part-of-speechn
English 1(abbr) radar
Cross-reference電波探知機
Commentlink to unabbreviated entry.
Other language optioneng
NameJeroen Hoek
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment

Current Entry探知機 [たんちき] /(n) detector/ (1418370)
Headword 1探知機
Reading 1たんちき
Part-of-speechn
English 1detector
CommentSuggest merge with 探知器 based on the way 探知器 and 探知機 are used somewhat interchangeably in compound words in the dictionary.
Other language optioneng
NameJeroen Hoek
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment Done.

Current Entry探知器 [たんちき] /(n) detector/locator/ (1768890)
Headword 1探知器
Headword 2探知機
Reading 1たんちき
Part-of-speechn
English 1detector
English 2locator
CommentNew headword, as per the preceding suggestion for merger with 探知機.
Other language optioneng
NameJeroen Hoek
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment

Current Entry巻狩り [まきがり] /(n) hunt/ (1665460)
Headword 1巻狩り
Headword 2巻き狩り
Headword 3巻狩
Reading 1まきがり
Part-of-speechn
English 1hunt where the hunting area is surrounded on four sides by hunters
Referencedaij
Other language optioneng
NameScott
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment


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Current Entry狩競 [かりくら] /(?) ???/RH/
Headword 1狩競
Headword 2狩倉
Headword 3狩座
Reading 1かりくら
Part-of-speechn
English 1(1) hunting ground
English 2(2) hunting contest
Referencedaij
Other language optioneng
NameScott
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment


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Current Entry吾妻鏡 [あずまかがみ] /(?) ???/RH/
Headword 1吾妻鏡
Headword 2東鑑
Reading 1あずまかがみ
Reading 2あづまかがみ
Part-of-speechn
English 1Japanese medieval text that chronicles events of the Kamakura Shogunate
Referencewiki
Other language optioneng
NameScott
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment

Current Entry敵討ち [かたきうち] /(n) (See 仇討ち) vengeance/revenge/retaliation/ (1227445)
Headword 1敵討ち
Headword 2敵討
Reading 1かたきうち
Part-of-speechn
English 1(See 仇討ち) vengeance
English 2revenge
English 3retaliation
Referencekoj
Other language optioneng
NameScott
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment

Current Entry私刑 [しけい] /(n) lynching/ (1311170)
Headword 1私刑
Reading 1しけい
Part-of-speechn
English 1lynching
English 2private punishment
English 3taking the law into your own hands
Other language optioneng
NameScott
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment I think "taking the law into your own hands" is best reserved for 私刑を加える.


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Current Entry御髪 [おぐし] /(?) ???/RH/
Headword 1御髪
Reading 1おぐし
Reading 2みぐし
Part-of-speechn
English 1(hon) hair
Referenceおぐし 0 【▽御▽髪】
〔「御櫛」の意か。もと女房詞〕他人の頭髪、また頭の敬称。 「きれいな—ですね」
みぐし 0 【▽御▽髪】
髪の敬称。おぐし。 「をかしの—や/源氏(若紫)」
Other language optioneng
NameName
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment お髪 too.

Headword 1発光器
Reading 1はっこうき
Part-of-speechn
English 1bioluminescent organ; photophore
Referencehttp://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/発光器
Namenurikabe
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment

Current Entryあら挽き;粗碾き;粗挽き [あらびき] /(adj-no) coarsely ground (e.g. coffee, grain)/minced (e.g. meat)/ (2035100)
Headword 1あら挽き
Headword 2粗碾き
Headword 3粗挽き
Headword 4粗びき
Reading 1あらびき
Part-of-speechadj-no
English 1coarsely ground (e.g. coffee, grain)
English 2minced (e.g. meat)
Other language optioneng
NameName
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment

Current Entry冒瀆 [ぼうとく] /(n,vs) blasphemy/curse/profanity/sacrilege/desecration/ (9002020)
Headword 1冒瀆
Reading 1ぼうとく
Part-of-speechn,vs
English 1blasphemy
English 2curse
English 3profanity
English 4sacrilege
English 5desecration
CommentDuplicate entry
Other language optioneng
NameName
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment Yes, because it has a JIS 212 kanji. It will be merged eventually.

Headword 1レジリエンス
Part-of-speechn
English 1resilience
Referenceused in a presentation and confirmed with google
NameMatt Falkenhagen
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment

Headword 1大前
Reading 1おおまえ
Part-of-speechn
English 1presence (of a kami, emperor, etc.)
Cross-reference御前 (みまえ)
Referencehttp://kotobank.jp/word/大前
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment

Current Entry歌舞伎者 [かぶきもの] /(n) a dandy/a peacock/the early-17th-century equivalent of present-day yakuza/Edo-period eccentric who attracted public attention with their eye-catching clothes, peculiar hairstyle, and weird behavior/ (2043110)
Headword 1歌舞伎者
Headword 1傾奇者
Reading 1かぶきもの
Part-of-speechn
English 1a dandy
English 2a peacock
English 3the early-17th-century equivalent of present-day yakuza
English 4Edo-period eccentric who attracted public attention with their eye-catching clothes, peculiar hairstyle, and weird behavior
Referencehttp://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/歌舞伎
Other language optioneng
NameBen Bullock
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment かぶき者 too.

Current Entry夜明け前が一番暗い [よあけまえがいちばんくらい] /(exp) it's always darkest before the dawn/the darkest hour is just before the dawn/ (2221610)
Headword 1夜明け前が一番暗い
Reading 1よあけまえがいちばんくらい
Part-of-speechexp
English 1it's always darkest before the dawn
English 2the darkest hour is just before the dawn
CommentSurely this is more of an example than an entry?
Other language optioneng
NameJim Breen
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment