noun:

• base support (e.g. for a party in an election); substrate; load bearing layer; supporting layer

noun:

• zaru soba (soba served on a bamboo draining basket with dipping sauce)

noun:

• nap room (e.g. for doctors in an emergency ward, or firefighters in a fire station)

expression:

• making something strong even stronger; solidifying something's chances; giving a metal rod to an ogre [literal] - idiom

noun:

• school centred on preparing students to get into university ➜ 進学
• high-level school a person has entered

noun:

• river in which worshippers wash their hands (and rinse their mouth) prior to entering a shrine

noun:

• large ball; giant ball (e.g. as pushed by competing teams in a school sports day)

noun / ~する noun:

• being moved forcibly, e.g. being carted to a police station, transportation for forced labour, etc.

expression:

• large; heavy; massed; quite a lot; large amount; sizable (e.g. sum) ➜ 纏まる
• definite; coherent; congruous; unitary

noun:

• conductorless bus (i.e. having only a driver); conductorless train - From English "one-man car"

noun:

• haggis (traditional Scottish dish made from a sheep's offal cooked in the animal's stomach)

noun:

• Alan Smithee (pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project); Allen Smithee

noun:

• fully raising the curtain when an actor enters or exits (noh)
• curtain with a family crest

noun:

• favourable position (esp. in horse racing, e.g. in 3rd to 5th place during a race) - abbreviation ➜ 好位置

expression:

• Look for a big tree when you want shelter; Serve the powerful for your own good

expression / adverbial noun:

• to a great extent; incredibly (tasty, much, etc.); (money) to burn; rolling in (cash)

noun:

• pinky swear; pinky promise; making a pledge by hooking each other's little fingers ➜ 指切拳万、嘘ついたら針千本呑ます【ゆびきりげんまんうそついたらはりせんぼんのます】・指切り

noun:

• cat tongue; thin cookie or chocolate shaped like a tongue - Food term - From French "langue de chat"

expression:

• no matter how lovingly raised, a foster child is not actually one's biological child - proverb - obscure term

expression:

• faith is mysterious; through faith, even something trivial (like a pilchard's head) seems valuable - proverb

noun:

• Vocaloid; singing voice synthesis software and related products, or a humanoid persona voiced by such software

noun:

• sending off a customer (e.g. to the closest train station)
• sending customers (somebody's way)

noun:

• man (esp. one who is well-respected)
• samurai ➜ 侍

suffix noun:

• person (in a certain profession, esp. licensed); member

noun:

• item with a long slender neck (e.g. vase, bottle)
• long-necked person

noun:

• dupion silk; silk that comes from a double cocoon formed jointly by two or more silkworms ➜ 玉繭