noun:

• prime minister (as the head of a cabinet government); premier - abbreviation ➜ 内閣総理大臣

noun / ~する noun:

• leading; overseeing; leader; overseer; president - orig. meaning

noun:

• rain chain (hanging from a gutter and functioning as downspout, often made of ornamental cups)

noun:

• hinged bamboo water cup or trough, which makes a percussive sound periodically as it tips over

noun / ~する noun:

• obtaining items such as books, CDs and DVDs before the date they officially go on sale - abbreviation - From English "flying get" ➜ フライングゲット

noun:

• fulcrum peg (fitted into the cavity in an oar as part of a traditional oarlock) ➜ 入れ子

noun:

• fulcrum peg (fitted into the cavity in an oar as part of a traditional oarlock) - obscure term ➜ 櫓杭

noun:

• homophone; word with the same pronunciation and similar meaning as another but a different written form

noun / ~する noun:

• re-pellet (plastics industry); regrind; grinding plastic scraps into small pieces as a form of recycling

noun:

• Orectolobidae (family containing eleven species in three genera of carpet sharks known as wobbegongs)

noun:

• Apristurus (genus of catshark in the family Scyliorhinidae known as ghost or demon catsharks)

noun:

• boiled pine pitch and oil (traditionally used as a glue in archery, etc.)

noun:

• persons organized into gangs and wearing flashy clothes, who styled themselves as "chivalrous men" (Edo period) ➜ 男伊達

noun:

• briefly-boiled chicken breast (served cold and mostly raw as sashimi with wasabi-seasoned shoyu)

noun:

• gemstone totem (esp. as jewelry); healing crystal - From English "power stone"
• Power Stone (video game series)

noun:

• kidney grille; two-section rounded radiator grill, as used on BMW vehicles

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be well-timed; to be timely; to be opportune - often used prenominally as 時宜を得た

noun:

• winning without fighting; method used to win without fighting - four character idiom
• one's own way of doing things (i.e. as different from that of one's instructor)
• Shinto-ryu (school of kenjutsu) - colloquialism ➜ 新当流

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to decide; to choose; to determine; to make up one's mind; to resolve; to set one's heart on; to settle; to arrange; to set; to appoint; to fix
• to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match)
• to persist in doing; to go through with
• to always do; to have made a habit of - as 決めている
• to take for granted; to assume
• to dress up; to dress to kill; to dress to the nines
• to carry out successfully (a move in sports, a pose in dance, etc.); to succeed in doing
• to immobilize with a double-arm lock (in sumo, judo, etc.) - Martial Arts, Sumo term
• to eat or drink something; to take illegal drugs

adverb:

• anybody and everybody; with the best of them; as the next fellow - adv equivalent of 誰も ➜ 誰も

noun:

• nut (as in nut and bolt)
• natural unit of information content; nat

noun:

• Generally Recognized as Safe list (Recognised); GRAS list

noun:

• infusion of kudzu, cinnamon, etc., used as an antifebrile, for hangovers, etc.

noun:

• taking up a new position as chief priest of a Buddhist temple

expression:

• innocent-looking; looking as though butter would not melt in the mouth

noun:

• grammatical rule allowing the usage of the continuative form as a conjunction