Japanese DictionaryDefinition of きもいり/meaning-of-きょうり
- (n) negative (static) charge; negative electric charge; (sometimes called "negative electricity")
- (n) imperial capital (esp. Kyoto)
- final word of an iroha-uta
- 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000; ten quadrillion (American); (obs) ten thousand billion (British)
- (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)
- (n) positive electric charge; positive (static) charge; (sometimes called "positive electricity")
- (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) ri (old Japanese unit of distance, approx. 3.927km or 2.44 miles)
１００里を行く者は９９里を半ばとする。
There's many a slip between the cup and the lip. - neighbourhood (under the ritsuryo system; orig. of 50 homes)
- unit of area (approx. 654m by 654m)
- (v1, vi) to be (of animate objects); to exist
民主主義に対する信頼をなくした者もいる。
Some have lost faith in democracy. - to stay
おかげで元気にしております。
They're all fine, thank you. - (v1, aux-v) (after the -te form of a verb) verb indicating continuing action or state (i.e. to be ..ing, to have been ..ing)
すっかり食べ終わってはいない。
I haven't quite finished eating.
- (n-t) today; this day
あなたは今日、何をしたいですか。
What would you like to do today? - these days; recently; nowadays
- (n) face
蛙の面に水。
Like water off a duck's back. - surface
その男はトラの面をかぶっていた。
The man wore a mask of a tiger. - mask (esp. a noh or kyogen mask)
- (n) positive electric charge; positive (static) charge; (sometimes called "positive electricity")
- (n) Halla okadai (species of eunicid worm used as fishing bait)
- (species of eunicid worm used as fishing bait)
- red mite (i.e. a chigger)
- (n-suf) a little over; a little more than
- powerhouse; one of the biggest; one of the most powerful
- (suf) (some type of) enthusiast
彼はまったくのゴルフ狂だ。
He's quite crazy about golfing. - somebody possessed of a (certain kind of) mental abnormality
- (n) locked up feeling; cooped up feeling; feeling of entrapment; (feeling of hopelessness); being in a bind
- (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)
- (n) miniature Chusan palm (Trachycarpus wagnerianus); (poss. Trachycarpus fortunei)
- (n) treating someone (to food or drink); entertaining someone (as one's guest)
- (n) Gokturks; Sky Turks; Tujue; (powerful Turkic confederation from medieval Inner Asia)