Japanese–English dictionary

間に合う

To succeed in doing something, for example in reaching a place, going somewhere, attending an event, arriving in time for something, adding to one's schedule or itinerary, or in getting where one wants to be in one's life or career, which sometimes means becoming or wanting to become successful (succeed in a big way) or famous. · maniau

間仕切り

A vertical structure that divides a room. · majikiri

間奏

(music) A short piece put between the parts of a longer composition. · kansō

間投詞

(grammar) An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion. · kantōshi

間抜け

(pejorative) A person who is deficient in intelligence. · manuke

間接費

(uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided. · kansetsuhi

間柄

Relations among people. · aidagara

間欠泉

(planetology, geology, volcanology) A boiling natural spring which throws forth jets of water, mud, etc., at frequent intervals, driven upwards by the expansive power of steam. · kanketsusen

間章

An intervening episode, etc. · kanshō

間誤付かせる

(transitive) To stun or stupefy, for example with bright light, with a blow, with cold, or with fear.

間誤付く

To confuse or perplex (someone) completely; to bewilder, to confound, to puzzle. [from 17th c.] · magotsuku

間諜

A member of an intelligence agency whose identity or affiliation is kept confidential. · kanchō

間諜罪

The act or process of learning secret information through clandestine means.

間違い

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

間違いなく

without a doubt; surely. · machigainaku

間違う

To have an incorrect belief, to be mistaken about one's judgment or statement concerning something. (This entry is a translation hub.) · machigau

間隔

A distance in space. · kankaku

間隙

An opening in anything made by breaking or parting. · kangeki

間隙を生じる

(figurative) To spread abroad; to propagate. (usu. negative connotation)

間食

An item of food eaten between meals. · kanshoku

間食する

To eat between meals.

閘門

A segment of a canal or other waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels. · kōmon

関

A city in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. · seki

関与者

One who participates. · kan'yosha

関係

Relevance; a relationship or connection. · kankei

関係がない

Not connected or associated. · kankeiganai

関係する

(transitive) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.

関係ない

Not connected or associated. · kankeinai

関係者

(engineering) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch. · kankeisha

関心

(countable) Something which, or someone whom, one is interested in. · kanshin

関手

(category theory) A category homomorphism; a morphism from a source category to a target category which maps objects to objects and arrows to arrows (either covariantly or contravariantly), in such a way as to preserve morphism composition and identities. · kanshu

関数

(mathematics) A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of the codomain. · kansuu

関数オブジェクト

(mathematics) A function that takes a function as its argument; more precisely, a function whose argument varies in a space of (real or complex valued) functions and whose value belongs to a monodimensional space.

関数閉包

(programming) An abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of the variables that are both bound at a particular time during the execution of the program and that are within the function's scope.

関東

A region of Honshu, Japan. · kantō

関税

(in the plural) The duties or taxes imposed on imported or exported goods. · kanzei

関節

(countable, or, uncountable) A joint or the collection of joints at which something is articulated, or hinged, for bending. · kansetsu

関節炎

Inflammation of a joint or joints causing pain and/or disability, swelling and stiffness, and due to various causes such as infection, trauma, degenerative changes or metabolic disorders: any of several disease entities. · kansetsuen

関連

The manner in which two things may be associated. · kanren

関連付け

(uncountable) The act of associating. · kanrenzuke

関連付ける

(transitive) To bring into a relation, association, or connection (between one thing and another). · kanrenzukeru

関連性

The property or state of being relevant or pertinent. · kanrensei

閣下

(used with His, Her or Your) A form of address for certain high officials or dignitaries. · kakka

閲覧

(transitive, computing) To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser. · etsuran

閻魔

(Hinduism, Buddhism) The Hindu lord of death, who rides a buffalo. · enma

閾下

(physiology) Of a stimulus: below the limen or threshold of conscious perception, especially if still able to produce a response; also (generally) , below the threshold where a response can be produced. [from late 19th c.] · ikika

閾値

(engineering) The quantitative point at which an action is triggered, especially a lower limit. · ikichi

闇

A complete or (more often) partial absence of light. · yami

闖入者

One who interferes, intrudes or gets involved where not welcome, particularly a self-interested intruder. · chinnyuusha

闘う

(intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc. · tatakau

闘争

(figurative) Strife, contention, great effort. · tōsō

闘志

(uncountable) The will or ability to fight. · tōshi

闘技場

An enclosed area, often outdoor, for the presentation of sporting events (sports arena) or other spectacular events; earthen area, often oval, specifically for rodeos (North America) or circular area for bullfights (especially Hispanic America). · tōgijō

闘牛士

One who engages in bullfighting; a toreador or matador. · tōgyuushi

闘球

A form of football in which players can hold or kick an ovoid ball; rugby football. The ball cannot be handled forwards and points are scored by touching the ball to the ground in the area past the opponent's territory or by kicking the ball between goalposts and over a crossbar. · tōkyuu

關聯

A connected group; a network, a web.

防ぐ

(transitive) To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard. · fusegu

防弾

(of a material) Capable of withstanding a direct shot by a bullet fired from a gun. · bōdan

防御

The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury. · bōgyo

防水加工する

To make waterproof or water-resistant.

防波堤

A construction in or around a harbour designed to break the force of the sea and to provide shelter for vessels lying inside. · bōhatei

防火壁

(architecture) A fireproof barrier used to prevent the spread of fire between or through buildings, structures, electrical substation transformers, or within an aircraft or vehicle. · bōkaheki

防禦

The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury. · bōgyo

防腐剤

Any agent, natural or artificial, that acts to preserve, especially when added to food. · bōfuzai

防護

The process of keeping (something or someone) safe. · bōgo

防銹

Resistant to rust, oxidation and corrosion. · bōshuu

防音

Not allowing sound through. · bōon

阻む

(transitive) To prevent something from happening. · habamu

阻害剤

(chemistry) Any substance capable of stopping or slowing a specific chemical reaction. · sogaizai

阻止

(transitive) To prevent something from happening. · soshi

阻止する

To charge with impropriety; to discredit; to call into question.

阿呆

(Ireland, Scotland, Mid-Ulster English, pejorative) An idiot; a fool; an imbecile. · aho

阿弗利加

The continent that is south of Europe, east of the Atlantic Ocean, west of the Indian Ocean and north of Antarctica. · afurika

阿波

A city in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. · awa

阿片

(uncountable) A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine. · ahen

附着力

The ability of a substance to stick to an unlike substance. · fuchakuryoku

降りる

(intransitive) To descend, fall down, collapse. · oriru

降る

To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity. · furu

降下

An instance of descending; act of coming down. · kōka

降下！

(intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.

降下する

(intransitive) To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.

降伏

(intransitive, originally only in military setting) To surrender on stipulated terms, end all resistance, give up, go along with or comply. [from the end of the 17th c.] · kōfuku

降伏現象

(physics, uncountable) The sudden (and usually damaging) transition of an electrical insulator to a conductor when subjected to a sufficiently strong voltage, caused by the partial or complete ionization of the insulator; (countable) an instance of this; also, the minimum voltage at which this occurs.

降服

The act of capitulating or surrendering to an enemy upon stipulated terms; the act of ceasing to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand. · kōfuku

降服する

(intransitive, or, reflexive) To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in.

降格

(transitive, done to a person) Exile or banish to a particular place. · kōkaku

降水

(meteorology) Any or all of the forms of water particles, whether liquid or solid, that fall from the upper atmosphere (e.g., rain, hail, snow or sleet). It is a major class of hydrometeor, but it is distinguished from cloud, fog, dew, rime, frost, etc., in that it must fall. It is distinguished from cloud and virga in that it must reach the ground. · kōsui

降水量

(meteorology) Any or all of the forms of water particles, whether liquid or solid, that fall from the upper atmosphere (e.g., rain, hail, snow or sleet). It is a major class of hydrometeor, but it is distinguished from cloud, fog, dew, rime, frost, etc., in that it must fall. It is distinguished from cloud and virga in that it must reach the ground. · kōsuiryō

降臨節

(Christianity) The period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas: the period of the advent (approaching) of Christmas.

降車

Often followed by from or off: to get off an animal which one has been riding; to dismount; to descend or exit from a vehicle; hence, to complete one's journey; to stop. · kōsha

降雨量

(meteorology) The amount of rain that falls on a single occasion · kōuryō

降雪

(uncountable) The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and the accumulation of them on the ground or on objects as a white layer. · kōsetsu

降雪する

(intransitive, impersonal) Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have snow (noun sense 1) fall from the atmosphere.

降雪量

The amount of snow that falls on one occasion. · kōsetsuryō

限られた

Having an end or limit; (of a quantity) constrained by bounds; (of a set) whose number of elements is a natural number.

限り

(idiomatic) Provided that, if, assuming (depending upon some condition or requirement). · kagiri

限る

(transitive) To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area; to keep in or within certain bounds. [from 17th c.] · kagiru

限定

(transitive) To restrict; to circumscribe; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries. · gentei

限定用法の

(grammar) Of an adjective, stating an attribute of the associated noun (as heavy in the heavy dictionary).

限定的

Confining, limiting, containing within defined bounds. · genteiteki

限定詞

(grammar) A word that qualifies a noun. · genteishi

限度

(semantics) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension. · gendo

限界

A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go. · genkai

陛下

(formal) A title of respect used when referring to a queen. · heika

院生

A person continuing to study in a field after having successfully completed a degree course. · insei

陣痛

(biology, medicine) A shortening of a muscle during its use; specifically, a strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth. · jintsuu

除いて

Other than; except for; instead of. · nozoite

除く

(transitive) To move from one place to another, especially to take away. · nozoku

除去

(transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to. · jokyo

除名

The act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual. · jomei

除外

The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule. · jogai

除染

(transitive) To remove contamination from (something), rendering it safe. · josen

除毛する

To remove all hair from skin so as to make it smooth.

除法

(uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything. · johō

除算

(music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones. · josan

除細動器

(cardiology) An electronic device used internally or externally that delivers a controlled electric shock to a patient to correct ventricular fibrillation, a lack of coordination of the contraction of muscle tissue of the large chambers of the heart. · josaidōki

除菌

(transitive) To rid of microorganisms by cleaning or disinfecting. · jokin

除雪機

A motorized vehicle that picks up snow off the ground and blows it to one side in order to clear a path. · josetsuki

除雪車

A motorized vehicle that is used to push snow off flat surfaces such as roads and parking lots. · josetsusha

陥れる

(transitive, obsolete) To cause; to bring about; to produce. · otoshiireru

陪審

(law) A group of individuals chosen from the general population to hear and decide a case in a court of law. · baishin

陪審員

(law) A member of a jury. · baishin'in

陪審長

(legal) The member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf.

陰

(philosophy) A principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated with dark, cool, female, etc. elements of the natural world. · kage

陰唇

folds of tissue at opening of vulva · inshin

陰嚢

The scrotum. · innō

陰子

(particle) A hypothetical particle that travels faster than the speed of light.

陰影

A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object. · in'ei

陰核

(anatomy) A sensitive elongated erectile sex organ at the anterior part of the vulva in female humans and other mammals. [from 17th c.] · inkaku

陰極

(electricity) An electrode, of a cell or other electrically polarized device, through which a positive current of electricity flows outwards (and thus, electrons flow inwards). It can have either a negative or a positive voltage with respect to anode of the same polarized device (depending on whether the device is a load or a source, respectively). · inkyoku

陰気

Suffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected. · inki

陰画

(photography) An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse. [from 19th c.] · inga

陰謀

(legal) An agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future. · inbō

陰部

(by extension) Any sex organs, whether external or internal; body parts responsible for sexual reproduction or sexual stimulation. · inbu

陰門

(anatomy) The external female genitalia of humans and other placental mammals, which includes the clitoris, labia, and vulval vestibule/vulvar opening. · inmon

陰鬱

Suffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected. · in'utsu

陳腐

Repeated too often. · chinpu

陳腐さ

(uncountable) The quality of being banal.

陳腐な

No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; clichéd, hackneyed, dated.

陳腐な言葉

(countable) An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse.

陳述

A declaration or remark. · chinjutsu

陵

A large stately tomb or a building housing such a tomb or several tombs. · misasagi

陵墓

A large stately tomb or a building housing such a tomb or several tombs. · ryōbo

陶器

(uncountable) A hard, brittle, inorganic, nonmetallic material, usually made from a material, such as clay, then firing it at a high temperature. · tōki

陶工

One who makes pots and other ceramic wares. · tōkō

陶片追放

(historical) In ancient Athens (and some other cities), the temporary banishment by popular vote of a citizen considered dangerous to the state. [from 16th c.] · tōhentsuihō

陶磁

(usually, uncountable) A hard white translucent ceramic, originally made by firing kaolin, quartz, and feldspar at high temperatures but now also inclusive of similar artificial materials; also often (figurative) such a material as a symbol of the fragility, elegance, etc. traditionally associated with porcelain goods. · tōji

陶磁器

(countable, now, _, usually, in the plural) An object made of porcelain, (particularly) art objects or items of tableware. · tōjiki

陶芸

The art or science of making ceramic objects. · tōgei

陶芸品

(uncountable) A hard, brittle, inorganic, nonmetallic material, usually made from a material, such as clay, then firing it at a high temperature. · tōgeihin