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#509
Common
Pitch accent
Meaning
  1. origin; source; beginning
    esp.
    It was under these circumstances that the constitutional crisis began.
  2. basis; base; foundation; root
    oft.
    The basis of this system is that the students must take turns in teaching, they have to help each other.
  3. cause
    also written as ,
    The clerk died from overwork.
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#46,236
Pitch accent
Meaning
  1. something to rely on; aid; clue; way; means
  2. someone to rely on; relative
  3. reminder; memento
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#1,393
Common
Pitch accent
Meaning
  1. by the way; in this connection; incidentally; in passing
    Incidentally a motorway ramp is being constructed in the neighbourhood, a few hundred metres away, of my clinic.
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#6,277
Common
Pitch accent
Meaning
  1. connection; tie; bond; origin
  2. pretext; justification
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11)
#18,341
Pitch accent
Meaning
  1. therefore; consequently; accordingly; for that reason
    Thus money in circulation drops, and price escalation quietens down.
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12)
#84,241

Inflections of ちなむ

Pitch accent
Meaning
  1. to be associated (with); to be connected (with)
    That's a picture of a monkey associated with the Year of the Monkey.
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13)
#23,374
Pitch accent
Meaning
  1. relation of cause and effect; causal relationship; causal link; causality
    Indeed, some writers do not think the relation of brain to consciousness is a causal relation in the first place.
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14)
#23,714
Common
Pitch accent
Meaning
  1. factor
    In my understanding, those two experiments do not have common factors.
  2. mathematics
    factor; divisor
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15)
#25,403

Inflections of よる

Common
Pitch accent
Meaning
  1. to be due to; to be caused by
    esp. 依る, 拠る
    Without him nothing was made that has been made.
  2. to depend on; to turn on
    esp. 依る
    For this reason, the credibility of the book's authors rests on the credibility of their sources.
  3. to be based on; to come from
    esp. 因る, 由る
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17)
#26,426
Pitch accent
Meaning
  1. retribution; retributive justice; karma; just deserts; poetic justice; reward and punishment for one's past behavior
    When the trusted confidant of the person who conducted a hostile takeover of the company betrayed him, it was a sort of retributive justice.
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#43,301

Inflections of 因縁をつける

Pitch accent
Meaning
  1. to invent a pretext for a quarrel; to pick a fight
    He often uses the slightest thing as a pretext for a fight with anybody.
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#44,333
Pitch accent
しゅ
Meaning
  1. convention; tired tradition; old custom
    negative nuance
    Progress in science was often barred by convention.
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#46,504

Inflections of よるところが大きい

Pitch accent
Meaning
  1. depending largely on; playing a large role in; due largely to
    as ~によるところが大きい
    He owes much of his success to his wife.
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