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  2. Boring (earth) - Wikipedia

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    Boring is drilling a hole, tunnel, or well in the Earth. It is used for various applications in geology, agriculture, hydrology, civil engineering, and mineral exploration. Today, most Earth drilling serves one of the following purposes: return samples of the soil and/or rock through which the drill passes; access rocks from which material can ...

  3. Help:IPA/Japanese - Wikipedia

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    This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Japanese on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Japanese in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.

  4. Doi (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Doi (土井、土居、土肥) are three Japanese family names that are pronounced identically, with the first kanji of each pair of characters meaning "earth." [1] Since they are the same phonetically, they are romanized identically: "do" for the first character and "i" for the second.

  5. Talk : List of English words of Japanese origin/Archive 1

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    This article is about English words. It's not List of Japanese words used in English. It's List of English words of Japanese origin. All words included in this list should be without exception English words. To claim that it's not a reasonable criterion that knowledge of English be the only language prerequisite, is quite ludicrous to say the ...

  6. List of English words of Japanese origin - Wikipedia

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    In Japanese, the word commonly refers to alcoholic drinks in general sashimi 刺身, a Japanese delicacy primarily consisting of the freshest raw seafoods thinly sliced and served with only a dipping sauce and wasabi. satsuma (from 薩摩 Satsuma, an ancient province of Japan), a type of mandarin orange (mikan) native to Japan shabu shabu

  7. Boring - Wikipedia

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    Boring (earth), drilling a hole, tunnel, or well in the earth Tunnel boring machine, a machine used in boring tunnels; Boring (manufacturing), enlarging a hole that has already been drilled; Drilling, a cutting process that uses a drill bit to cut a hole of circular cross-section; Boring, a mechanism of bioerosion

  8. Glossary of Japanese words of Dutch origin - Wikipedia

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    The initial element kei is a phonetic borrowing from the kei in the Dutch term keiaarde, and the do in the Japanese (土, "earth, soil") is a translation of the aarde ("earth, soil") of the Dutch term. First appears in 1877. Now obsolete, replaced by shirika (シリカ) from English silica. kiruku / koruku [2] キルク / コルク: kurk cork ...

  9. Japanese dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Another early English character dictionary is 六千字典 = 6000 Chinese Characters with Japanese Pronunciation and Japanese and English Renderings by J. Ira Jones and H.V.S. Peeke published in 1915 in Tokyo. [6] The fourth edition of this work appeared in 1936. [7] There are currently four major Kan–Ei dictionaries.