Japanese–English dictionary

詠唱する

To recite, e.g., poetry, in a theatrical way; to speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; bemouth; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant.

試し

The action of trying at something. [1530] · tameshi

試す

(archaic) To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force. · tamesu

試み

The action of trying at something. [1530] · kokoromi

試みる

(archaic) To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force. · kokoromiru

試写会

A short collection of clips edited together to advertise a film, television show, etc.; a trailer. · shishakai

試合

(sports) A boxing or martial arts match. · shiai

試練

A challenge, trial. · shiren

試聴

(countable) A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent. · shichō

試胆会

A challenge to prove courage. · shitankai

試薬

(chemistry) Any of the participants present at the start of a chemical reaction, specifically one that is consumed during the reaction. · shiyaku

試食

The taking of a small amount of food or drink into the mouth in order to taste it. · shishoku

試験

(transitive) To examine, inspect, look at closely, ogle; to investigate; to gather information so as to make a decision. · shiken

詩

A literary piece written in verse. · shi

詩人

A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men. · shijin

詩歌

A literary piece written in verse. · shiika

詩的表現

A piece of writing in the tradition of poetry, an instance of poetry.

詩篇

(religion, music) A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God. · shihen

詩集

A collection of literary works, such as poems or short stories, especially a collection from various authors. · shishuu

詫び

An expression of remorse or regret for having said or done something that harmed another: an instance of apologizing (saying that one is sorry). · wabi

詭弁

(logic) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a specious argument. · kiben

詰まらない

Having no worth or use; without value. · tsumaranai

詰まる

To block or slow passage through (often with 'up). · tsumaru

詰み

(chess) Word called out by the victor when making a move that wins the game. · tsumi

詰める

(physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. · tsumeru

詰め込む

(transitive) To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity. · tsumekomu

話

Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking. [from 16th c.] · hanashi

話し

(countable, uncountable) Informal conversation. · hanashi

話し手

One who speaks. · hanashite

話し振り

(linguistics, sociolinguistics) The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect. · hanashiburi

話し方

The manner of speaking or singing. · hanashikata

話し言葉の

(linguistics) Characteristic of familiar conversation, of common parlance; informal.

話す

(formal, intransitive) To talk; to engage in conversation. · hanasu

話をする

(transitive) To relate (a story or series of events) in speech or writing. · hanashiosuru

話者

One who speaks. · washa

話題

A subject, now especially of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic. · wadai

該

Mentioned earlier; aforesaid. · gai

該当なし

not applicable · gaitōnashi

詳しい

For a long time; extensively. · kuwashii

詳細

(countable) A part small enough to escape casual notice. · shōsai

詳細な

Explicit, vivid, descriptive, often in relation to depictions of sex or violence.

詳細に説明する

(transitive) To explain in detail.

詳説

(transitive) To set out the meaning of; to explain or discuss at length. · shōsetsu

詳述

To tell; narrate; to relate in detail. · shōjutsu

誇らしい

Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified. · hokorashii

誇り

A sense of one's own worth; reasonable self-esteem and satisfaction (in oneself, in one's work, one's family, etc). · hokori

誇る

To boast; to be proud. · hokoru

誇大

The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth, reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement. · kodai

誇大妄想

A psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence. · kodaimōsō

誇大狂

An obsession with grandiose or extravagant things or actions.

誇張

To overstate, to describe more than the fact. · kochō

誇張された

That has been described as greater than it actually is; abnormally increased or enlarged.

誇示

(countable) A demonstration. · koji

誉れ

Honour, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; renown. · homare

認める

(transitive) To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in. · mitomeru

認可

(countable) An act of authorizing. · ninka

認定

The giving of credentials. · nintei

認知

(legal) The act of a person admitting a child as their own. · ninchi

認知する

(transitive, said of an illegitimate child) To fix the paternity of

認知症

(pathology) A progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving. · ninchishō

認知的不協和

(psychology) A conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one's beliefs and one's actions or other beliefs. · ninchitekifukyōwa

認証

(computing) Proof of identity required by a user to log on to some network or access some resource. · ninshō

認識

(transitive) To realize or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in. · ninshiki

誑す

(transitive) To wheedle or persuade (a person, organisation, animal etc.) gradually or by use of flattery to do something. · tarasu

誓い

A solemn pledge or promise that invokes a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise. · chikai

誓う

(ambitransitive) To make a vow; to promise. · chikau

誓約

A pact or binding agreement between two or more parties. · seiyaku

誕生

(uncountable) The process of childbearing; the beginning of life; the emergence of a human baby or other viviparous animal offspring from the mother's body into the environment. · tanjō

誕生日

The anniversary of the day on which something is created. · tanjōbi

誕辰

The anniversary of the day on which something is created. · tanshin

誘い

The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company. · sasoi

誘う

(transitive) To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something. · sasō

誘因

Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages. · yuuin

誘導

To steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot. · yuudō

誘導体

(chemistry) A chemical derived from another. · yuudōtai

誘導弾

(military) A self-propelled projectile whose trajectory can be adjusted after it is launched. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.] · yuudōdan

誘惑

Anything which allures; something or someone used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something · yuuwaku

誘惑する

(transitive) To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.

誘惑する女

A woman who seduces.

誘惑的な

Attractive, alluring, tempting.

誘拐

Leading away; a carrying away. [from early 17th century.] · yuukai

誘拐する

(transitive) To take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap. [Early 17th century.]

誘拐犯

One who abducts; a kidnapper. [mid 19th century] · yuukaihan

語

(computing, countable) A computer language; a machine language. · go

語り手

(narratology) The person or the "voice" whose viewpoint is used in telling a story. · katarite

語り部

(narratology) The person or the "voice" whose viewpoint is used in telling a story. · kataribe

語る

(transitive) To tell, either verbally or in writing. · kataru

語中音消失

(linguistics, phonology, prosody) The elision or loss of a sound from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable.

語句

A short written or spoken expression. · goku

語呂合わせ

Something (especially a series of ideas, letters, words, etc.) used to help in remembering a thing; a memory aid. · goroawase

語尾

(grammar) The last part of a word. · gobi

語幹

A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather. · gokan

語彙

A list of difficult words or specialized terms used in a particular book or document, or in a particular domain of knowledge, with their definitions; a list of glosses (explanatory annotations). · goi

語彙素

(linguistics) A lexical item corresponding to the set of all words (or of all multi-word expressions) that are semantically related through inflection of a particular shared basic form. · goiso

語彙論

(uncountable, linguistics) The part of linguistics that studies words, their nature and meaning, words' elements, relations between words including semantic relations, words groups and the whole lexicon. · goiron

語彙集

(by extension) A range of artistic or stylistic forms or techniques.

語形

(grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech. · gokei

語形変化

(grammar, uncountable) The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features. · gokeihenka

語形変化表

(linguistics) A set of all forms which contain a common element, especially the set of all inflectional forms of a word or a particular grammatical category.

語形論

(biology) The study of the form and structure of animals and plants. · gokeiron

語族

(linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language. · gozoku

語根

(linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots. · gokon

語源

(linguistics) A word or phrase which serves as the origin of a term in another language. · gogen

語源学

(countable) An account of the origin and historical development of a word as presented in a dictionary or the like. · gogengaku

語義

(semantics, lexicography) A statement of the meaning of a word, word group, sign, or symbol; especially, a dictionary definition. · gogi

語調

(linguistics) The rise and fall of the voice in speaking. · gochō

誠

The state or quality of being true to someone or something. · makoto

誠実

Good, honest intentions. [from between 1890 and 1895] · seijitsu

誠意

Good, honest intentions. [from between 1890 and 1895] · seii

誤

Bad or wrong; badly or wrongly. · go

誤って

In an accidental manner; by chance, unexpectedly. · ayamatte

誤り

(countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately. · ayamari

誤る

Incorrect or untrue. · ayamaru

誤伝

Information that is incorrect, whether intentionally or unintentionally. · goden

誤報

False information intentionally disseminated to deliberately confuse or mislead; intentional misinformation. · gohō

誤字

A typographical error. [from late 19th c.] · goji

誤差

(statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one. · gosa

誤植

A typographical error. [from late 19th c.] · goshoku

誤算

An incorrect or mistaken calculation. · gosan

誤算する

(transitive, intransitive) To calculate incorrectly.

誤解

(transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another. · gokai

誤読する

To read wrongly; misconstrue; misinterpret; mistake the sense or significance of.

誤謬

(logic) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a specious argument. · gobyuu

説く

(transitive) To encourage support for something. · toku

説得

To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence. · settoku

説教

(intransitive) To act like a pontiff; to express one's position or opinions dogmatically and pompously as if they were absolutely correct. · sekkyō

説教者

Someone who preaches a worldview, philosophy, or religion, especially someone who preaches the gospel and especially a clergyman or clergywoman. In a religious context, usually used only to refer to Protestant Christian clergy. · sekkyōsha

説明

(transitive) To explain by relating circumstances; to show that some one, thing or members of a group are present or have been processed. · setsumei

説明する

Of, relating to, or providing a description.

説明書

A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook. · setsumeisho

説話

A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story. · setsuwa

読み

(go, uncountable) The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones. · yomi

読みやすい

Clear enough to be read; readable, particularly of handwriting. · yomiyasui

読み上げる

(transitive, or, intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object) · yomiageru

読み取り装置

A device which uses optics to detect printed data (such as a barcode).

読み書き

Able to read and write; having literacy. · yomikaki

読み書きができない

Unable to read and write.

読み流す

(transitive) To read quickly or describe summarily, skipping some detail. · yominagasu

読み飛ばす

(transitive) To read quickly or describe summarily, skipping some detail. · yomitobasu

読む

(transitive, or, intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written. · yomu

読める

Not clear enough to be read; unreadable; not legible or decipherable. · yomeru

読書

The process of interpreting written language. · dokusho

読点

(typography) The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list. · tōten

読者

A person who reads a publication. · dokusha

誰

(fused relative, archaic, or, marginal) Whoever, he who, they who. · dare

誰か

Some unspecified person. · dareka

誰でも

Any person; anybody. · daredemo

誰も

Any person; anybody. · daremo

誰何

The act of a sentry in halting a person and demanding the countersign, or (by extension) the action of a computer system demanding a password, etc. · suika

課

A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided. · ka