Definition of 前/meaning-of-うく
- (n) negative (static) charge; negative electric charge; (sometimes called "negative electricity")
- (n) positive electric charge; positive (static) charge; (sometimes called "positive electricity")
- (n, adj-no, n-suf, pref) previous; prior; former; some time ago; preceding
その作家はどの位前になくなりましたか。
How long ago did the author die? - point (e.g. pencil); tip; end; nozzle
1987年10月のある朝、スティーブン・ホーキングは自分のコンピューターの前に座っていた。
One October morning in 1987, Stephen Hawking sat before his computer. - head (of a line); front
- ahead; the other side
- the future; hereafter
- destination
わぁあ〜〜っ!?隠してっ!前、隠してよっ!
M-my goodness!? Cover-up! Cover yourself up! - the other party
- (v5k, vi) to float
それから彼女はあおむけに浮いていた。
Then she was floating on her back. - to become merry; to be cheerful
- to become loose; to become unsteady
- to feel out of it; to be cut off (e.g. from those around you); to feel out of place
若者ばかりのそのコンサート会場でおじさんのわたしはすっかりまわりから浮いていた。
Being at the concert hall full of young kids made an old duffer like me feel out of tune. - to be frivolous; to be uncertain
- to have no basis; to be unreliable
- (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) locked up feeling; cooped up feeling; feeling of entrapment; (feeling of hopelessness); being in a bind
- (n) miniature Chusan palm (Trachycarpus wagnerianus); (poss. Trachycarpus fortunei)
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