Words — 233 found
ノンブレス
1. circular breathing (technique to enable continuous playing of a wind instrument)Music, Wasei, word made in Japan, See also 循環呼吸, From English “non-breath”. Wasei (word made in Japan)
1. dried lacquer
2. dry lacquer (technique); kanshitsu; technique for making objects (vessels, sculptures, statues, etc.) from many layers of hemp cloth soaked with lacquer
すもうかしょうぶま
相撲に勝って勝負に負ける
1. to ultimately fail despite being in a favourable position; to fail at the last moment; to win the battle but lose the war; to have the upper hand in sumo (technique) but lose the matchIdiomatic expression
ひとの
人を飲む
1. to write the kanji for "person" on one's hand three times and mimic swallowing them (as a technique for calming one's nerves)
オーバーラッピング
1. listening to a foreign-language recording while simultaneously reading aloud from a transcript (as a technique for improving listening skills, intonation, etc.)From English “overlapping”
つばめがえ
燕返し
1. quickly reversed cut (sword technique)
2. swallow counter (judo technique); swallow flight reversalMartial arts
3. swapping one's hand with the bottom row of the nearest wall (cheating technique)Mahjong
4. completing a hand with an opponent's discarded riichi tileMahjong
ツバメ返し 【つばめがえし】、つばめ返し 【つばめがえし】
1. "large eyes" look (makeup technique)
スキャル
1. barré (chord)Music, From Spanish; Castilian “ceja”
シャドーイング
1. shadowing (esp. as a language learning technique); repeating speech immediately after hearing it
2. projective shadowing; shadow mappingComputing
シャドウイング