First opened Sunday, August 18, 2013

締める

しめる

middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 2

How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).

to tie, to fasten, to tighten

JLPT N5CommonIchidan verbtransitive verb和語 · Native Japanese

Taken apart

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Written with 締

In a sentence

運転(うんてん)者(しゃ)はシートベルトをしめるように指導(しどう)された。
The driver advised us to fasten our seat belts.
Tatoeba #189454, translation #26605

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What Wiktionary says

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What the labels mean

和語 Native Japanese: Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.

Related in the dictionary

The words JMdict points to from this word's sense. A word that has opened links to its day; the others are named as JMdict writes them.

Opposite: 緩めるゆるめるto loosen, to slow down

Also read しめる

Other words so far with exactly this reading and another spelling, oldest first, with the pitch accent each entry shows: where they differ, the pitch tells the words apart in speech. Only the readings are compared; nothing is claimed about how the words are related.

締めるThis word
to tie, to fasten, to tighten
しめ↓る middle-high (nakadaka)
閉める
to close, to shut
しめ↓る middle-high (nakadaka)
占める
to take up; to account for
しめ↓る middle-high (nakadaka)
湿る
to be wet, to be damp
しめる flat (heiban)

Also opened on August 18

The words that opened on this day of the year in other years, oldest first. They share only the date: nothing else links them.