Japanese DictionaryDefinition of こうそてき
- (n) rice grasshopper (of genus Oxya)
- grasshopper; locust (of family Catantopidae)
イナゴが大群をなしてやってきた。
Locusts came in big swarms.
- (v5r, vt) to reel; to wind; to spin (thread)
それがいつだったか日を繰って確かめた。
I counted the days to see when it had happened. - to turn (pages); to flip through (a book); to leaf through (a book); to consult (a dictionary); to refer to (an encyclopedia)
- to count (e.g. the days)
- to open one-by-one; to close one-by-one (e.g. shutters)
- (aux) to be (auxiliary used in place of "aru" after "de" or "ni" when forming a copula); to do (auxiliary used in place of "-masu" after a -masu stem)
- (n) good luck; fortune; happiness
幸にも授業に間に合った。
Fortunately, I made it to the class. - harvest; yield
- (n) 10^32; hundred nonillion (American); (obs) hundred quintillion (British)
彼はその浅い溝を飛び越えた。
He leaped over the shallow ditch.
- (n) hand; arm
こちらに来るように手で合図した。
I made motions at him to come here with my hand. - forepaw; foreleg
- handle
- hand; worker; help
- trouble; care; effort
- means; way; trick; move; technique; workmanship
いい手を思いついた。
I hit upon a good idea. - hand; handwriting
- kind; type; sort
- one's hands; one's possession
本は現在誰の手にも入る。
Books are now within the reach of everybody. - ability to cope
あいつらには手が負えない。
They are out of hand. - hand (of cards)
いい手が配られた。
I was dealt a good hand. - direction
- (n, n-suf, ctr) move (in go, shogi, etc.)
- (n) nest; rookery; breeding place; hive
ミツバチは、においのサンプルを巣に持ち帰ることによって食糧のありかを伝える。
Bees communicate the location of food by carrying odor samples back to the hive. - den
- haunt
- (spider's) web
クモはいつも自分たちの巣を３次元に織る。
Spiders always weave their webs in three dimensions.
- (vk, vi, aux-v) to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to arrive
１０時までに来ます。
I'll come by 10. - to come back; to do ... and come back
私の父は私に、ぜひそこを見てくるようにといった。
My father insisted that I should go to see the place. - to come to be; to become; to get; to grow; to continue
- (vk, vi) to come from; to be caused by; to derive from
- to come to (i.e. "when it comes to spinach ...")
- (n) carapace; shell
- 1st in rank; grade A
- instep; back of hand
- the A party (e.g. in a contract); the first party
- (n) box
- car (of a train, etc.)
- shamisen case; shamisen
- man who carries a geisha's shamisen
- receptacle for human waste; feces (faeces)
- (vs-c) to do (literary form of suru)
あなたのためなら喜んでどんなことでもします。
I am ready to do anything for you.
- (n) pivot hinge (using extensions on the top & bottom of a door that fit into cavities in the frame)
- sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut)
- (suf) honorific (or familiar) suffix used after a name
その子は母親に甘えた。
The child played the baby to his mother.
