to believe; to believe in; to place trust in; to confide in; to have faith in
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
to sew; to stitch; to weave one's way (e.g. through a crowd)
outbreak; spring forth; generation (e.g. of power or heat); genesis; ontogeny; development of complex multicellular structures from cell(s) in a simple state
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
deck (e.g. ship, tape, cassette, observation, train vestibule)
engine; agency; organisation; system; facility
thrust; driving force; propulsion
fall; decline; lowering; deterioration; degradation
barrier wall; bulkhead; partition; septum; diaphragm
closing; closure; shutdown; lockout
to hurry; to rush; to hasten; to make something happen sooner
to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need
to give; to let (one) have; to give; to do for one; to take the trouble to do; to do to someone's disadvantage
tightly (holding on); firmly; strongly (built); solidly; properly; well
to die; to pass away; to lose spirit; to lose vigor; to cease; to stop
Buddhist priest; bonze; close-cropped hair; crew cut; boy; sonny
beast (i.e. any animal other than man); person reborn into the animal realm; brute (i.e. a contemptible human being); damn it; damn
steering (of a boat); steerage
impossible; incapable (of doing); incompetence; inability; impotence; having no solution (of an equation)
this way; this direction; here; this (one); I; me
main battery; main armament
unable to compete with; not able to make a dent in (e.g. a problem); not able to get a solid hit in (e.g. in a fight); hard to chew
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
opponent; rival; adversary; menace; danger; threat
appearing ...; looking ...; way to ...; method of ...ing; form; style
ambush; lying in wait for an ambush
to receive; to get; to catch (e.g. a ball); to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.); to sustain (damage); to incur (a loss); to undergo (e.g. surgery)
endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement
change of course (ship); steering in a different direction
rolling over; turning over; turning around (the other way); reversal (of direction, course, etc.); producing a positive from a negative (photography); producing a negative from a positive
fire fighting; extinguishing a fire
to persevere; to persist; to insist that; to stick to (one's opinion); to remain in a place; to stick to one's post
output (electrical, signal, etc.)
maintenance; preservation; improvement
wetting; love affair; lover
to be careful; to pay attention; to take care
something; something or other; so-and-so; somehow; anyhow; one way or another
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
as is; as it is; as things are; like this; this way; at this rate
safe; secure; certainly; surely; no thanks; I'm good