noun / ~する noun:

• scheme; device; scheming; devising; figuring out; coming up with; solving ingeniously
• dedication to spiritual improvement (esp. through Zen meditation)

noun / ~する noun:

• notification; official notice; directive (e.g. from higher to lower levels of the administration)
• being well versed (in something) ➜ 精通

noun:

• origin; source; authority
• birthplace ［しゅっしょ］

noun / ~する noun:

• release (discharge) from prison ［しゅっしょ］

noun:

• exit; point of departure ［でどころ・でどこ］
• time to take action ［でどころ・でどこ］

noun:

• paper doll to which children pray for fine weather (usu. white, and shaped like a Buddhist priest)

noun:

• Lyophyllum shimeji (species of edible mushroom) ➜ 本占地
• euagaric fungus (in grocery stores, usu. refers to cultivated field mushrooms, etc.) ➜ 平茸

noun:

• useless book learning; knowing the theory but being able to put it into practice; practising swimming on a tatami mat [literal] - idiom - humorous term

noun:

• useless book learning; knowing the theory but being unable to put it into practice; practising swimming on a tatami mat [literal] - idiom - humorous term

noun:

• one's course of action; deciding what to do with oneself, whether staying in the present position or leaving it - four character idiom

noun:

• foil; someone to look as if he's putting up a fight but actually have no chance of winning

expression:

• twilight; time for disasters (similar to 'the witching hour' but not midnight) ➜ 大禍時

noun:

• plane with a blade at ninety degrees to its base used for maintaining the bases of other wooden planes

noun:

• bai ze (mythical chinese animal able to understand human speech, having the body of a lion and eight eyes)

noun:

• fiery chariot - Buddhism term
• kasha (mythical beast said to devour dead bodies)
• (in China) train (i.e. steam locomotive)
• vile old hag - abbreviation - archaism ➜ 火車婆

noun:

• word to soften awkward topics (esp. refusal in business conversation, e.g. "I am afraid that ...") - e.g. 申し訳ありませんが、あいにく - obscure term - From English "cushion word"

noun:

• long interlude (in folk songs or koto music)
• wiles (e.g. used by a prostitute to lure customers); finesse; trick

noun:

• unloading a barge
• small pieces of fried tofu
• palanquin that carried guests to and from the red light district

noun:

• space; room; gap; emptiness
• vacancy; opening; empty seat

noun / ~の noun:

• free time; time to spare
• disuse; unused thing

noun:

• form (as opposed to substance); formality ➜ 形式張る
• method; system; style
• format; mode; appearance; form (something takes) ➜ ファイル形式
• math expression

noun:

• ascent; climbing; ascending (path); climb
• up-train (e.g. going to Tokyo) ［上り］ ➜ 上り列車

noun / ~の noun:

• northward (towards Tokyo)

expression:

• (I'm fine) thank you; thanks to you; fortunately; under the gods' shadow [literal] - polite language

noun / suffix noun:

• system; lineage; group
• corollary - Mathematics term
• system (range of strata that correspond to a particular time period) - Geology term
• (taxonomical) series

expression:

• Forgive me for dispensing with the preliminaries, but I hasten to inform you that... - opening formula of a brief letter

noun / ~する noun:

• omitting the beginning

noun:

• awareness of things around one; ability to understand what is going on around oneself; judgment; judgement; discretion

noun / ~する noun:

• drag

noun:

• drug; medicine
• (illegal) drug; narcotics

~する noun:

• to highlight (e.g. by click-dragging a cursor over text) - IT term

noun:

• knit; knitted fabric; knitted garments
• nit (unit of surface brightness equal to 1 candela per square meter)