expression:

• a single instance indicates what happens all the time; one case gives you an idea of what always happens

noun:

• straw-wrapped item; bundle of straw (containing a food item, etc.) ➜ 藁苞
• local produce; souvenir; present; gift ➜ 土産【みやげ】

noun:

• model; type (e.g. of machine, goods, etc.)
• type; style; pattern - がた when a suffix ➜ 朝型
• mold (mould); template; model
• kata (standard form of a movement, posture, etc. in martial arts, sport, etc.)
• form (i.e. customary procedure)
• size (i.e. clothing, shoes)
• inch (in diagonal display size)
• (taxonomical) form - obscure term ➜ 品種

noun:

• city centre (center) (esp. capital city); urban centre; heart of city a metropolis

noun:

• Western word or sentence
• word created by translating components of a Western word

noun:

• cow spot pattern (as on the hide of a cow); cow-skin pattern

noun:

• kan-on; Han reading; on reading of a kanji based on Tang dynasty Chinese ➜ 呉音【ごおん】・唐音【とうおん】

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to put a thing on top of another; to cover; to lay something on

expression / ichidan verb:

• to synchronise the breathing with the opponent prior to the start of a match - Sumo term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to synchronise the breathing with the opponent prior to the start of a match - Sumo term

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to have a lot of influence; to have clout; to be well known

adverb / ~と adverb:

• dilatorily; sluggishly - onomatopoeia

~する noun:

• to take a lot of time; to become late; to take it easy

expression / adverb:

• in an instant; instantly; in a moment; instantaneously; in the twinkling of an eye

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to act as an agent for; to intermediate
• to announce (someone's arrival); to answer (the door, the phone); to receive (a guest at reception); to usher in (a guest)
• to convey (a message)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to dish up; to fill (a bowl) with
• to pile up; to heap up; to fill up; to stack up
• to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to prescribe
• to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
• to mark out (e.g. scale); to graduate (e.g. thermometer)
• to exaggerate; to apply heavy makeup - slang

noun:

• inevitability of death (one of the four kinds of suffering) - Buddhism term ➜ 四苦
• death pains; agony of death

noun:

• highway (esp. one existing from the Edo period); main road
• highway (e.g. to success); path (to becoming ...) ➜ 出世街道【しゅっせかいどう】

noun:

• official injury exemption system; system for exempting players injured in an official match from pay reduction or demotion - Sports term

noun:

• nationally protected chicken breed; free-range local traditional pedigree chicken; chicken meat from same
• locally raised chicken ［地鳥］

noun:

• having one's baby nursed by another woman; wet-nursing; breast milk received from another woman

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to catch 'the stupid' (e.g. from talking to stupid people, watching mindless TV, etc.) - colloquialism

noun:

• integrated education; integrated school system; system where students can progress from elementary through secondary levels without entrance examinations

expression / godan ~う verb:

• I don't want to hear it from you; are you in any position to say that?

noun:

• tag; label
• game of tag
• tag-team match - abbreviation ➜ タッグマッチ
• working together as a team - abbreviation ➜ タッグチーム

noun:

• Tendai Shinto (alt. name for Hie Shinto: a form of Shinto heavily influenced by Tendai) - obscure term ➜ 日吉神道