jpdb beta

stimulus; impetus; incentive; encouragement; motivation; provocation

1

will; desire; ambition; urge (e.g. creative urge)

1

to hit (e.g. one's head); to strike; to throw (e.g. a ball, a question, a demand); to express; to vent (e.g. one's anger)

5

goodbye; so long; saying goodbye to (e.g. life as a bachelor); putting an end to; farewell (performance, party, etc.); final

2

to be needed; to be wanted

1

indicates emphasis

1

affected; smug; pompous; conceited; snobby; pretentious

1

to go out and away; to leave

3

towards (a destination); for the purpose of; with the goal of; targeting (a group, a demographic)

1

foobar-style name for a dummy variable

1

to plan; to attempt; to plot; to conspire; to aim for; to strive for

1

surprise attack; surprise visit; catching a person off guard

1

direct hit

1

to spring; to jump up; to fly up; to skip

2

to be surprised; to be astonished

8

attractive; good-looking; stylish; cool; smooth; neat

1

isn't it (that) different (from usual, from what one could expect, etc.)?; isn't that wrong?; no, that's wrong; it's not like that; that's not the case

1

to strike a chord; to tug at one's heartstrings; to resonate

1

oscillation; vibration; swing (e.g. of a pendulum)

2

to draw near; to draw closer; to press (e.g. for an answer); to hound

1

to seize (someone) by the collar; to grab (someone) by the scruff of the neck; to collar (someone)

1

malicious; ill-tempered; unkind

1

such a thing; something like that

1

high spirits; gleeful mood

1

to enquire of someone about something (inquire); to question; to interrogate; to grill (someone about a matter); to question in detail

1

to strangle; to constrict

1

details; particulars; longitude and latitude; warp and weft; warp and woof

1

soft and flaky (pie, potatoes, squash, etc.); fluffy; crumbly; being pleased with oneself; beaming happily; chuckling to oneself

1

farewell gift

1

ultimate goal

3

to stare fixedly at; to fix one's gaze on; to make sure of; to set one's eyes on (e.g. the future); to focus on

3

front line; forefront

1

progress; development

4

outbreak; spring forth; generation (e.g. of power or heat); genesis; ontogeny; development of complex multicellular structures from cell(s) in a simple state

1

first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all

1

counter for stories, episodes of TV series, etc.

1

day; days; sun; sunshine; (the) day; daytime; date

5

to tell; to inform; to announce; to indicate; to signal; to mark

2

living together (with one more person)

4

end; finish; bounds; limits; delivery date (of a futures contract); finale (of a noh song); end of an act (in jōruri or kabuki)

6

hooded sweatshirt; hoodie; hoody; hooded jacket; parka; anorak

2

indescribable; inexpressible; unspeakable; indefinable; nobody can tell

1

emotion; feeling; feelings; sentiment

2

to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)

2

swaying; swinging; rocking; shaking; wavering; flickering

1

to loiter; to putter; to prowl; to wander about; to roam about; to knock around

1

attitude; manner; behaviour; attitude (towards an issue, etc.); position; stance

4

to perceive; to grasp (the situation)

1

to find resolution; to be settled; to be collected; to be assembled; to be well arranged; to be in order

2

to erase; to delete; to turn off (power); to switch off; to extinguish; to put out

3