New Entries/Amendments for 2010-06-12

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: 12 June.
Current Entry明白な事 [めいはくなこと] /(n) obvious fact/ (1911660)
Headword 1明白な事
Reading 1めいはくなこと
Part-of-speechn
English 1obvious fact
CommentNot sure about this being worth a separate entry - and as a (n).
Other language optioneng
NamePaul
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment Yes; a bit obvious.

Headword 1泡雪
Headword 2沫雪
Reading 1あわゆき
Part-of-speechn
English 1(1) a kind of snow that melts very fast, almost like water
English 2(2) a type of pear (very juicy)
NameAdele
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment Already an entry in the "light snowfall" sense. Any reference for the pear? I can't find support for this?

Headword 1泰功
Reading 1やすのり
Part-of-speechm
English 1Yasunori
NameAkira
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment

Current Entry補助 [ほじょ] /(n,vs,adj-no) (1) assistance/support/aid/help/(2) subsidy/supplement/subvention/grant-in-aid/(3) auxiliary/subsidiary/(P)/ (1514590)
Headword 1補助
Reading 1ほじょ
Part-of-speechn,vs,adj-no
English 1(1) assistance
English 2support
English 3aid
English 4help
English 5(2) subsidy
English 6supplement
English 7subvention
English 8grant-in-aid
English 9(3) auxiliary
English 1subsidiary
English 1(4) spot (in bodybuilding)
ReferenceExperiences while weight-lifting
Other language optioneng
NameSean
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment

Current Entryタンジェント;タンゲント(ik) /(n) tangent/ (1659990)
Headword 1タンジェント
Headword 2タンゲント
Part-of-speechn
English 1tangent
CommentThe example sentence for this entry appears to have "sine" and "cosine" round the wrong way in the Japanese part. Mathematically, the Japanese version is correct.
Other language optioneng
NameRavi Gondhalekar
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment Passed that to the Tatoeba people.

Headword 1還元水飴
Headword 2還元水あめ
Headword 3かんげんみずあめ
Headword 4還元みずあめ
Reading 1かんげんみずあめ
Part-of-speechn
English 1reduced sugar syrup
NameName
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment

Headword 1オナガザメ科
Reading 1オナガザメか
Part-of-speechn
English 1Alopiidae (family with three species of thresher sharks all within the genus Alopias)
NameJames Rose
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment

Headword 1オナガザメ属
Reading 1オナガザメぞく
Part-of-speechn
English 1Alopias (genus of three extant thresher shark species in the family Alopiidae)
NameJames Rose
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment

Headword 1トラザメ科
Reading 1トラザメか
Part-of-speechn
English 1Scyliorhinidae (family of catsharks containing 146 species in 16 genera)
NameJames Rose
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment

Headword 1サンゴトラザメ属
Reading 1サンゴトラザメぞく
Part-of-speechn
English 1Atelomycterus (genus of five species of catshark in the family Scyliorhinidae)
NameJames Rose
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment

Headword 1オーストラリアン・マーブル・キャットシャーク
Part-of-speechn
English 1Australian marbled catshark (Atelomycterus macleayi, species endemic to Australia)
NameJames Rose
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment

Headword 1サッカーくじ
Part-of-speechn
English 1football pool
English 2soccer lottery
Referencehttp://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/サッカーくじ
Commentスポーツ振興くじ is rarely used.
NameName
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment added サッカー籤(uk)

Current Entry違和感 [いわかん] /(n) (1) uncomfortable feeling/feeling out of place/sense of discomfort/(2) malaise/physical unease/(P)/ (1159020)
Headword 1違和感
Headword 2異和感
Reading 1いわかん
Part-of-speechn
English 1(1) uncomfortable feeling
English 2feeling out of place
English 3sense of discomfort
English 4(2) malaise
English 5physical unease
ReferenceSee below.
CommentThe addition which I have made to the above seems to be an alternative. It is used in text. Google has some 11,000 hits. When one searches, often one sees both readings alongside each other. My own search stated off with "異和感" which was used in some text which I was looking at.

The following "RH" could also be deleted.:-

異和感 【いわかん】 (?) ???; RH
Other language optioneng
NameFrancis
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment

Current Entry自然主義者 [しぜんしゅぎしゃ] /(n) a naturalist/ (1726610)
Headword 1自然主義者
Reading 1しぜんしゅぎしゃ
Part-of-speechn
English 1naturalist
ReferenceAvoid articles (a, the): "dog" not "a dog".
Other language optioneng
NameName
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment Touché.


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Current Entry番える [つがえる] /(vt) combine/fix a arrow to the string/promise/WI1/
Headword 1番える
Reading 1つがえる
Part-of-speechvt
English 1combine
English 2fix a arrow to the string
English 3promise
English 4to mate a pair
ReferenceSee below.
CommentThis gets some 20k Google hits. It appears in my dictionaries. Perhaps, you would consider promotion.

The following "RHs" could be deleted:-

番える 【つがえる】 (?) ???; RH
番る 【つがえる】 (?) ???; RH

It also appears in children's stories, but in kana. If anyone searched the site based upon that, it would be good if this came up.

P.S. As a matter of interest, from the angle of the novice and the silly stumbling blocks that prevent progress, I thought that you may like to see the following which I picked up on a search on Google. I have deleted all the names of the people involved, except one:-

"Now this is getting clearer. Jim Breen's excellent dictionary site glosses the phrase in question as 質問攻め and しつもんぜめ, but my source had 質問ぜめ and I am too green to make this leap.

Many thanks!"

[I guess such remarks make your efforts really worthwhile!]
Other language optioneng
NameFrancis
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment Can you source the senses other that fitting an arrow? That's all I can find. I have added 質問ぜめ to the 質問攻め entry. (Yes, positive feedback is nice. I get plenty of brickbats too.)