noun:

• man's appearance; man's behaviour; someone disguised as a man

noun:

• woman's appearance; woman's behaviour; someone dressed as a woman ➜ 男姿

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to draw a line between; to clearly differentiate; to distinguish between

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to use a calculator
• to calculate cost-benefit; to calculate profitability ➜ 算盤を弾く

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make a cut; to make an incision; to score (food)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to live under another's roof; to become a dependent on
• to flatten oneself (against); to lean in close to

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to snuggle up to; to nuzzle; to burrow into; to press a part of one's body against something

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to knock together; to strike against each other
• to arrange (e.g. a meeting); to discuss (in advance)

noun / ~する noun:

• lapse of memory; forgetting for a moment something one knows well; (something) slipping one's mind

noun / ~する noun:

• waiting on a table; serving (at dinner)

noun:

• waiter; waitress; waitperson; server; cabin boy; bellboy; page; pageboy
• office boy; office girl

noun / ~する noun:

• skirmish; brush (with the enemy); small fight with a military enemy
• squabble; quarrel; brief argument; exchange of words

noun / ~する noun:

• overseas travel (to Western countries); going abroad (to study or travel)

noun:

• store operated by a foreigner (in pre-communist China)

noun:

• economy of scale; cost saving or benefit from having a larger scale (e.g. of production) - From English "scale merit" ➜ 規模効果

noun / ~する noun:

• choice; selection; picking out (from a larger list) - From English "pick up"

noun:

• pickup (phonograph); stylus bar
• pickup truck; pickup ➜ 小型トラック
• pickup (reaction) - Physics term

noun:

• material before the opening credits in a film, anime, etc. - From English "avant title"

suffix:

• taking a quantity (of time, people, etc.)
• similar to ...
• dependent on ...; reliant on ...
• while ...; when ...; in the midst of ... - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun / ~する noun:

• author directing or producing his or her own play (film) - four character idiom
• staging oneself for effect; presenting oneself in a favorable light - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun:

• honest to a fault; one's only strength being his (her) honesty; having no redeeming feature except for being honest - four character idiom

noun:

• winding a replacement thread, wire, etc.
• changing from an overarm to an underarm grip on one's opponent's belt - Sumo term

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to accurately guess what subjects will turn up on a test; to have one's predictions turn out correct

noun:

• nitrogen mustard (chemical compound related to mustard gas, used as a chemical weapon or an anticarcinogen)

expression:

• first verse of a nursery rhyme sung by children on cold days (similar to "It's Raining, It's Pouring")

noun:

• children's game in which three or more stand back-to-back in a circle and jostle ➜ 押し競べ【おしくらべ】

noun:

• priest who was also a street performer and performed prayers and other religious duties for the sake of other people

noun:

• clean, freshly poured bath; hot water just poured into a bath that no one has entered yet