- to sculpt or mold a statue (by shaping a pliable material such as clay, plaster or wax, which may later be cast in metal – as distinct from carving in stone or wood); a statue created through such a process
- to pursue; to track down; to search
- to arrange; to lay out
- for a time; at one time; one time; once
- Latin America; abbr. for 拉丁美洲
- head of state
- to gather; to collect
- early or late; first and last; priority; in succession; one after another
- well-developed; flourishing; to develop; to promote; to expand; (literary) to achieve fame and fortune; to prosper
- science and engineering as academic subjects
- predecessor; ex-; former; ex (spouse etc)
- to rule a country
- hidden; potential; latent
- to disperse (a crowd etc); (fig.) to dispel (misgivings etc)
- to erupt; an eruption
- volcano
- to pull back; to shrink; to contract; (physiology) systole
- to expand; to inflate; to swell
- hypothesis
- to sway; to swing; to move back and forth; to oscillate
- to cover up; to conceal; to close (a door, book etc); (coll.) to get (one's fingers etc) caught when closing a door or lid; (literary) to launch a surprise attack
- mother; elderly female relative; origin; source; (of animals) female
- to shake; to shock; to stun; shocking; stunning; shock
- to drop into; to fall into
- by the end of the year; at the end of the year; shortly before New Year
- period; cycle
- spectacle; impressive sight
- clockwork spring (used to power a watch or windup toy etc); (attributive) windup; clockwork
- jet (math.)
- periodic; periodicity (math); cyclicity
- magnitude of a star
- spiral
- breach; gap; breakthrough point
- lone; lonely
- thickness
- great; grand
- (physics) chain reaction; (idiom) chain reaction; series of events each caused by the previous one