expression:

• excuse me (when passing in front of somebody) - polite language

noun:

• snapshot (esp. of people) ➜ スナップショット

noun:

• realis form (of verbs and adjectives in classical Japanese); perfective form - Linguistics term ➜ 仮定形【かていけい】

noun / ~する noun:

• decommissioning (of a nuclear reactor, furnace, incinerator etc.); decommissioned nuclear reactor (or furnace, incinerator, etc.)

adjectival noun / noun:

• small, light and thin (of consumer products, esp. electronics) - four character idiom Antonym: 重厚長大

noun:

• range (of a gun); firing distance

noun:

• smooth hammerhead (Sphyrna zygaena, species of hammerhead shark)

noun / ~する noun:

• corruption (of text, e.g. in email, due to improper encoding); garbling; illegal character; corrupted text; garbled text - IT term

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• silent (esp. of the passing of the night)
• piercing (cold) ［しんしん］

noun:

• face value (of a bond, cheque, etc.); face amount

noun:

• orbfish (Ephippus orbis, species of Indo-West Pacific spadefish)

noun:

• large decorative black flagpole tassel made from tail hair (of a yak, horse, ox, etc.) or dyed hemp - also written as 大頭
• emperor's encampment

noun:

• frequency (of appearance) - IT term

expression / ichidan verb:

• to guarantee (someone's ability or the quality of their work); to vouch for; to endorse ➜ 太鼓判を押す

noun:

• the Seven Wise Men (of Confucius's Analects) ➜ 七賢人
• Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove ➜ 竹林の七賢

expression:

• don't feed autumn eggplant to your wife (because they're too delicious, because they'll give her the chills, or because their lack of seeds will reduce her fertility) - proverb

noun:

• women's New Year (15th day of the first month of the year); New Year for women who were too busy to celebrate on the 1st (Kyoto-Osaka) ➜ 小正月

noun:

• rejection (of a manuscript, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 没【ぼつ】・ボツにする

noun:

• One Thousand and One Nights (collection of Arabic stories)

noun:

• two departments (under the ritsuryo system: the Dept. of State & the Dept. of Worship) ➜ 律令制

noun:

• Nichiren Shoshu (sect of Buddhism)

noun:

• hero package (commercial in which the product is the hero of the segment)

noun:

• Sinustrombus latissimus (species of sea snail)

noun:

• whirligig beetle (any insect of family Gyrinidae, esp. the Japanese whirligig beetle, Gyrinus japonicus)
• pond skater; water strider ➜ 水馬【あめんぼ】

noun:

• Juglandales (order of plants)