noun:

• damming (e.g. a pond)

noun:

• victim (of a crime, esp. murder) - police jargon

noun:

• -te form (e.g. of a verb) - Linguistics term

noun:

• (logical) conversion (transposition of subject and predicate to form a new proposition)

expression / noun:

• completely empty (of a residence, etc.); vacant; deserted ➜ 蛻【もぬけ】
• body from which the soul has left; corpse
• shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc.) - orig. meaning

noun:

• bulbous bow (on a ship to reduce drag) ➜ 球状船首

noun:

• destination (of a delivery); consignee

noun:

• different kanji with the same Japanese reading (and usu. a similar meaning) - four character idiom ➜ 暑い・熱い

noun:

• blocking communications (from a phone number or an e-mail address)

noun:

• (artistic portrait of a) lion

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to dismiss (from a position)
• to exempt; to excuse from; to forgive

noun:

• last entrant (to a race, market, etc.)

yodan ~ふ verb (archaic) / intransitive verb:

• to serve (by a superior's side) ［候ふ］ - archaism

auxiliary verb / yodan ~ふ verb (archaic):

• to be - auxiliary used in place of ある after で or に when forming a copula - archaism - polite language
• to do - auxiliary used in place of ます after a -masu stem - archaism - polite language

noun:

• waza-ari (in judo, a half-point awarded for good but incomplete execution) - Martial Arts term

~の noun / noun:

• by order (of a superior); as instructed; official (e.g. notification)

noun:

• formal paragraph (in opposition to a logical paragraph); paragraph as defined by its formal elements (e.g. line break and initial indentation) ➜ 意味段落

noun:

• steered wheel (e.g. at the front of a car); steering wheel

noun:

• exchange zone (in a relay race) - From English "baton zone"

noun / ~する noun:

• carrying out (a religious festival or ceremony)

expression / adjective:

• short (of a person) ➜ 背が低い

noun / ~する noun:

• retirement (to a temple of shrine) for prayer

noun:

• gallery (in a theatre); upper gallery; cheap seats; nosebleed section; the gods - four character idiom

noun:

• many turns (in a road)

noun:

• top-hinged window shutter (often held open with a pole)

noun:

• neckband (of a shirt)