noun:

• game in which the object is to topple the opposing team's pole

expression:

• losing everything; coming to nothing; having lost the interest and the principal

noun:

• woman bestowed with the title "in" (usu. the empress, imperial princesses, etc.) - honorific language ➜ 院

noun:

• incidentally; taking the opportunity; while (you) are at it; on the occasion ➜ 序でに

noun:

• Western medicine (as introduced to Japan by the Dutch during the Edo period)

noun:

• water left in buckets on the roadside during the summer for travellers

noun:

• Panthalassa; vast global ocean during the late Paleozoic and the early Mesozoic periods

noun:

• hoverboard; hover board; fictional hovering skateboard from the Back to the Future series

noun / ~する noun:

• appointment (to a position, job, etc.); being used for a role; promotion

expression:

• It's good to have a girl first and then a boy

noun:

• capital punishment given personally by a feudal lord after a disrespectful act

noun:

• peeler (for peeling a label from its base in a barcode printer)

noun:

• short pillar set on a beam to support a ridgepole ➜ うだつが上がらない

expression:

• Even a fool may sometimes come up with a good idea - four character idiom

noun:

• taking a relaxed holiday in a rural area - From English "green tourism"

noun:

• in calligraphy, a brush movement where a horizontal line turns sharply downwards

expression / noun:

• Cleopatra's nose; "a small thing with a huge influence" [figurative]

expression:

• a little learning is a dangerous thing - proverb

noun:

• partial match; matching a search term with sub-string within a field - IT term

expression / adverb / prefix:

• a lot; to a very great extent; absolutely - slang - abbreviation ➜ 半端ない

noun:

• placing a minor under protective detention; imposing a care and custody order

noun:

• being kept uninformed; being cut off; out of the loop - sensitive
• upper gallery (where one can't hear); blind seat - archaism

noun:

• mizuna (Brassica rapa var. nipposinica); potherb mustard
• Elatostema umbellatum var. majus (variety of plant related to the nettles) ➜ 蟒草

noun:

• getting free admission on the strength of one's name; being let in somewhere because one is recognized

expression:

• just as even coarse tea tastes good when fresh, even homely girls look beautiful at the peak of their youth ➜ 番茶も出花