Thank you very much for your reply. Now I understand the meaning of "spinmeister". And I am so excited to get what I wanted in such a short time! I have been building (is it an appropriate word?) a personal database of the English-Japanese language (it is now about 17500 entries and over 73 MB). In the "spinmeister" entry, I have typed your explanation. I would like to say again "thank you." SIRAISI Tomio [log in to unmask]