New Entries/Amendments for 2010-06-24

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: 24 June.
Headword 1ガラパゴスザメ
Part-of-speechn
English 1Galapagos shark (Carcharhinus galapagensis, species of circumtropical requiem shark found in the reef environments around oceanic islands)
NameJames Rose
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment

Headword 1ドタブカ
Part-of-speechn
English 1dusky shark (Carcharhinus obscurus, species of reef-associated requiem shark)
NameJames Rose
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment

Headword 1ハナグロザメ
Headword 2ハナグロ
Part-of-speechn
English 1blacknose shark (Carcharhinus acronotus, species of requiem shark common in the western Atlantic)
NameJames Rose
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment

Headword 1ハビレ
Part-of-speechn
English 1bignose shark (Carcharhinus altimus, species of circumglobal requiem shark)
NameJames Rose
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment

Headword 1蠢動
Headword 2惷動
Reading 1しゅんどう
Part-of-speechn
Part-of-speechvs
MiscoK
English 1to squirm
English 2to wriggle
NameEric Detweiler
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment Adding 惷動. I think it's a not-uncommon typo.


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Current Entry四本足で立っている [?] /(adj) statant/WI4/
Headword 1四本足
Reading 1よんほんあし
Part-of-speechn,adj-no
English 1four-legged
English 2four legs
Reference四本足の生き物(よんほんあしのいきもの)
CommentNo good references for this one - one gave よんほんきゃく as the reading, but the others were all あし.
Other language optioneng
NamePaul
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment

Headword 1からから
Part-of-speechadv-to
Miscon-mim
English 1(1) rattle
English 2(2) loud laughter
Reference大辞林 and GG5.
CommentI guessed that this ought to be a separate entry to the existing one for からから because the part-of-speech is different.
NamePeter Maydell
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment No, they go as extra senses into the existing entry.

Headword 1軌道修正
Reading 1きどうしゅうせい
Part-of-speechn
English 1course correction
English 2trajectory change
Referencehttp://eow.alc.co.jp/軌道修正/UTF-8/ <-- provides more senses of the word.

An example usage, taken from real corporate communications, redacted due to being an internal company communication, is:
Comment"Orbital adjustment" - when run by natives as the only translation offered, elicited a laugh. "Maybe if you're an astronaut" they said.
Namejmvp
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment


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Current Entryセイラ /(u) Sarah/
Headword 1サラ
Headword 2セイラ
Part-of-speechf
English 1Sarah
Referenceサラ・ルイーズ・ペイリン、若しくはセイラ・ルイーズ・ペイリン(セイラの方がより原音に近い)、(英: Sarah Louise Palin
CommentLooking at the entries for
サラファーガソン (h) Sarah Ferguson
サラミシェルゲラー (h) Sarah Michelle Gellar
and such it seems that サラ is more common for Sarah.

A lot of the セイラ hits are for Sayla, a character in the Gundam anime.
Other language optioneng
NamePaul
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment

Headword 1乗法標準形
Reading 1じょうほうひょうじゅんけい
Part-of-speechn
English 1(math) conjunctive normal form/CNF
Referencehttp://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/乗法標準形
NameAgro Rachmatullah
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment

Current Entry常用漢字 [じょうようかんじ] /(n) (See 当用漢字) kanji for common use (list of 1,945 kanji established in 1981)/(P)/ (1356150)
Headword 1常用漢字
Reading 1じょうようかんじ
Part-of-speechn
English 1(See 当用漢字) kanji for common use (list of 2136 kanji established in 2010)
Other language optioneng
Namediego
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment

Headword 1商材
Reading 1しょうざい
Part-of-speechn
English 1product (as expressed by the seller of the product, derived from 商売の材料 )
ReferenceNumerous hits on Google, but actual explanation provided to me by a Japanese colleague.
NameDavid Stormer
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment Expanded it a bit using KOD追加語彙.

Headword 1オグロ
Part-of-speechn
English 1graceful shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides, species of requiem shark found in the tropical Indo-Pacific)
NameJames Rose
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment

Headword 1タイワンヤジブカ
Part-of-speechn
English 1pigeye shark (Carcharhinus amboinensis, species of tropical requiem shark)
NameJames Rose
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment

Headword 1ボルネオメジロザメ
Part-of-speechn
English 1Borneo shark (Carcharhinus borneensis, species of requiem shark found in Borneo and China)
NameJames Rose
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment

Headword 1宋音
Reading 1そうおん
Part-of-speechn
CommentThis is listed as "T'ang reading of Chinese characters", but shouldn't it be "Song reading of Chinese characters", considering 宋 is "Song" and 唐音 is already listed as "T'ang reading" ?
NameFrançois
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment No, it seems to be one of the sub-types of T'ang reading. See: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/音読み "音読みには呉音・漢音・唐音(宋音・唐宋音)・慣用音などがあり、..."


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Current Entry弾力的運用 [?] /elastic operation/flexible management/WI4/
Headword 1弾力的運用
Reading 1だんりょくてきうんよう
Part-of-speechn
English 1elastic operation
English 2flexible management
Referenceもう少し諸規則の弾力的運用はできないか。
Can't you apply the rules a little more elastically?

がっこうのりんじきゅうぎょうそちなど、こうどうけいかくのだんりょくてきうんようをけんとうしたい
Other language optioneng
NamePaul
Submission Typenew
Editorial Comment

Current Entry単に [たんに] /(adv,n) simply/merely/only/solely/(P)/ (1417030)
Headword 1単に
Reading 1たんに
Part-of-speechadv,n
English 1(See 単) simply
English 2merely
English 3only
English 4solely
CommentReally 'n'?
Other language optioneng
NamePaul
Submission Typeamend
Editorial Comment