Translation Japanese English: 言まえ

1 Defense, alibi, defence, exculpation, excuse, explanation, justification, self-justification, vindication.

2 Defense, apology, cause, defence, explanation, grounds, justification, reason, vindication.

3 Reading, comment, commentary, explanation, interpretation, interpreting, rendering, rendition, version.

4 accent, address, delivery, manner of speaking, speech, speech pattern.

5 account, accounting, clarification, elucidation, explanation, explication, exposition, expounding, illumination.

6 account, clarification, comment, commentary, elucidation, explanation, explication, exposition, expounding, illumination.

7 actor's line, address, delivery, language, lecture, manner of speaking, oral communication, speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, talking to, voice communication, words.

8 alibi, apology, exculpation, excuse, explanation, self-justification.

9 annotating, annotation, comment, commentary, explanation, notation, note.

10 arguing, argument, choice of words, contention, contestation, controversy, delivery, diction, disceptation, disputation, dissent, dustup, expostulation, language, linguistic communication, manner of speaking, objection, phraseology, phrasing, protest, quarrel, remonstrance, remonstration, row, run-in, speech, tilt, verbiage, wording, words, wrangle.

11 bringing, deliverance, delivery, legal transfer, livery, manner of speaking, obstetrical delivery, pitch, rescue, saving, speech.

12 calligraphy, chirography, explanation, penmanship.

13 column, dissertation, editorial, explanation, newspaper column, thesis.

14 delivery, explanation, manner of speaking, speech.

15 delivery, idiom, manner of speaking, parlance, speech.

16 delivery, language, linguistic communication, manner of speaking, quality, speech, timber, timbre, tone, tone of voice.

17 discourse, explanation, lecture, lecturing, lesson, public lecture, talk.

18 exegesis, explanation, interpretation.