Headword 1 | ガラパゴスザメ |
Part-of-speech | n |
English 1 | Galapagos shark (Carcharhinus galapagensis, species of circumtropical requiem shark found in the reef environments around oceanic islands) |
Name | James Rose |
Submission Type | new |
Editorial Comment |
Headword 1 | ドタブカ |
Part-of-speech | n |
English 1 | dusky shark (Carcharhinus obscurus, species of reef-associated requiem shark) |
Name | James Rose |
Submission Type | new |
Editorial Comment |
Headword 1 | ハナグロザメ |
Headword 2 | ハナグロ |
Part-of-speech | n |
English 1 | blacknose shark (Carcharhinus acronotus, species of requiem shark common in the western Atlantic) |
Name | James Rose |
Submission Type | new |
Editorial Comment |
Headword 1 | ハビレ |
Part-of-speech | n |
English 1 | bignose shark (Carcharhinus altimus, species of circumglobal requiem shark) |
Name | James Rose |
Submission Type | new |
Editorial Comment |
Headword 1 | 蠢動 |
Headword 2 | 惷動 |
Reading 1 | しゅんどう |
Part-of-speech | n |
Part-of-speech | vs |
Misc | oK |
English 1 | to squirm |
English 2 | to wriggle |
Name | Eric Detweiler |
Submission Type | amend |
Editorial Comment | Adding 惷動. I think it's a not-uncommon typo. |
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-speech | n,adj-no |
English 1 | four-legged |
English 2 | four legs |
Reference | 四本足の生き物(よんほんあしのいきもの) |
Comment | No 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 option | eng |
Name | Paul |
Submission Type | new |
Editorial Comment |
Headword 1 | からから |
Part-of-speech | adv-to |
Misc | on-mim |
English 1 | (1) rattle |
English 2 | (2) loud laughter |
Reference | 大辞林 and GG5. |
Comment | I 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. |
Name | Peter Maydell |
Submission Type | new |
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-speech | n |
English 1 | course correction |
English 2 | trajectory change |
Reference | http://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. |
Name | jmvp |
Submission Type | amend |
Editorial Comment |
Current Entry | セイラ /(u) Sarah/ |
Headword 1 | サラ |
Headword 2 | セイラ |
Part-of-speech | f |
English 1 | Sarah |
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 |
Comment | Looking 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 option | eng |
Name | Paul |
Submission Type | new |
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-speech | n |
English 1 | (math) conjunctive normal form/CNF |
Reference | http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/乗法標準形 |
Name | Agro Rachmatullah |
Submission Type | new |
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-speech | n |
English 1 | (See 当用漢字) kanji for common use (list of 2136 kanji established in 2010) |
Other language option | eng |
Name | diego |
Submission Type | amend |
Editorial Comment |
Headword 1 | 商材 |
Reading 1 | しょうざい |
Part-of-speech | n |
English 1 | product (as expressed by the seller of the product, derived from 商売の材料 ) |
Reference | Numerous hits on Google, but actual explanation provided to me by a Japanese colleague. |
Name | David Stormer |
Submission Type | new |
Editorial Comment | Expanded it a bit using KOD追加語彙. |
Headword 1 | オグロ |
Part-of-speech | n |
English 1 | graceful shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides, species of requiem shark found in the tropical Indo-Pacific) |
Name | James Rose |
Submission Type | new |
Editorial Comment |
Headword 1 | タイワンヤジブカ |
Part-of-speech | n |
English 1 | pigeye shark (Carcharhinus amboinensis, species of tropical requiem shark) |
Name | James Rose |
Submission Type | new |
Editorial Comment |
Headword 1 | ボルネオメジロザメ |
Part-of-speech | n |
English 1 | Borneo shark (Carcharhinus borneensis, species of requiem shark found in Borneo and China) |
Name | James Rose |
Submission Type | new |
Editorial Comment |
Headword 1 | 宋音 |
Reading 1 | そうおん |
Part-of-speech | n |
Comment | This 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" ? |
Name | François |
Submission Type | amend |
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、..." |
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-speech | n |
English 1 | elastic operation |
English 2 | flexible 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 option | eng |
Name | Paul |
Submission Type | new |
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-speech | adv,n |
English 1 | (See 単) simply |
English 2 | merely |
English 3 | only |
English 4 | solely |
Comment | Really 'n'? |
Other language option | eng |
Name | Paul |
Submission Type | amend |
Editorial Comment |