経緯 | [いきさつ(P);けいい;たてぬき;たてよこ(ok), ikisatsu (P); keii ; tatenuki ; tateyoko (ok)] (n) (1) (いきさつ, けいい only) details; particulars; whole story; sequence of events; chronology; circumstances; how it started; how things got this way; (2) (けいい only) longitude and latitude; (3) (けいい, たてぬき, たてよこ only) (orig. meaning of けいい) (See 縦横・たてよこ・4) warp and weft; warp and woof; (P) #2,320 [Add to Longdo] |
新造 | [しんぞう;しんぞ, shinzou ; shinzo] (n, vs) (1) new; newly made; (n) (2) unmarried woman of about 20; (3) newly-married woman; (4) new prostitute that has not started working; attendant of an older prostitute #12,746 [Add to Longdo] |
掛かる(P);懸かる(P);掛る;懸る | [かかる, kakaru] (v5r, vi) (1) (See 時間がかかる) to take; (v5r) (2) to hang; (3) (See お目にかかる) to come into view; to arrive; (4) to come under (a contract, a tax); (5) to start (engines, motors); (6) to attend; to deal with; to handle; (v5r, aux-v) (7) to have started to; to be on the verge of; (8) to overlap (e.g. information in a manual); to cover; (9) to (come) at; (10) (See 鍵がかかる) to be fastened; (11) to be covered (e.g. with dust, a table-cloth, etc.); (12) (See 罠にかかる) to be caught in; (13) (See 電話が掛かる) to get a call; (14) to depend on; (P) #14,931 [Add to Longdo] |
統一教会 | [とういつきょうかい, touitsukyoukai] (n) Unification Church (religious movement started by Reverend Sun Myung Moon) #19,931 [Add to Longdo] |
ボタン戦争 | [ボタンせんそう, botan sensou] (n) (obsc) war started or ended with the push of a single 'launch' button (wasei [Add to Longdo] |
元の木阿弥 | [もとのもくあみ, motonomokuami] (n) ending up right back where one started [Add to Longdo] |
仕掛かる;仕掛る;仕懸かる;仕懸る | [しかかる, shikakaru] (v5r, vt) (1) to start something; (2) to have started something, but not yet finished it [Add to Longdo] |
緒に就く;緒につく | [しょにつく, shonitsuku] (exp, v5k) to be started; to get underway [Add to Longdo] |
乗りかかった船;乗り掛かった船 | [のりかかったふね, norikakattafune] (exp) already embarked (and hence cannot go back); already started [Add to Longdo] |
銅器時代 | [どうきじだい, doukijidai] (n) Copper Age (period in which metal tools started to be used alongside stone tools) [Add to Longdo] |