Illustration: In a neighborhood woodworking shop, a carpenter runs a fingertip across the zigzag boundary where two lengths of timber meet in a finished scarf joint. The timber rests securely on a low workbench, with the contrasting grain directions making the two original pieces easy to distinguish.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

継つぎ目め

tsugime

joint, seam

Example sentences

  1. いすの継つぎ目めはぐらぐらしていた。

    The joints of the chair were loose.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. レールは、継つぎ目めの数かずを減へらした軌条きじょうロングレールを使用しよう。

    For the rails, long rails are used for reducing the number of connection points.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 現存げんそんの障壁画しょうへきがの一部いちぶに不自然ふしぜんな継つぎ目めがあるのは、火災かさいから救出きゅうしゅつされて残のこった画面がめんを継つぎ合あわせたためと推定すいていされている。

    The unnatural seams in some of the surviving wall paintings are thought to have resulted from joining together sections rescued from the fire.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 継目

  • 継inherit; succeedOnケイKunつぐ・まま-
  • 目eyeOnモク・ボクKunめ・ま-

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