Definition of うすい-とる
- (n) negative (static) charge; negative electric charge; (sometimes called "negative electricity")
- (n) positive electric charge; positive (static) charge; (sometimes called "positive electricity")
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(adj-i) thin
肉を薄く切りなさい。
Cut the meat into thin slices. -
pale; light
彼はうすい青色のネクタイをしていた。
He wore a light blue tie. -
watery; dilute; sparse
うすい砂糖水を作った。
I prepared a weak solution of sugar and water. -
weak (taste, etc.)
コーヒーは薄いのが好きです。
I'd like my coffee weak. -
slim (probability, etc.); small
私は成功の望みが薄い。
There is little hope of my success.
- (n) rain water
- "rain water" solar term (approx. Feb 19)
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(v5r, vt) to adopt (measure, proposal)
ドルが円をはじめとする主要なアジア通貨に対して急落しているなか、実質上のドルペッグ政策を採っている中国の人民元は割安となっている。
In the midst of the dollar falling hard against the Yen and other major Eastern currencies the Chinese Yuan, with China effectively taking a 'dollar peg' policy, has become cheap. -
to pick (e.g. fruit); to catch (e.g. insects); to take (e.g. a sample)
このカップに尿をとってください。
Please leave a urine sample in this cup. - to assume (attitude)
- to take on (i.e. hire); to engage
- (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)
- (n) Gokturks; Sky Turks; Tujue; (powerful Turkic confederation from medieval Inner Asia)