noun:

• Hokkaido dog; dog breed native to Hokkaido ➜ アイヌ犬

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to search (esp. a home in a police search) - obscure term - slang

noun:

• near bankruptcy; edge of bankruptcy; bumper-to-bumper

noun:

• personnel exchange; people-to-people exchange

expression:

• please pay attention to me; please entertain me - from かまってちょうだい - slang - abbreviation ➜ 構う

noun / adjectival noun:

• plane symmetry; symmetry with respect to a plane - Mathematics term

noun:

• language; dialect ➜ 言語
• word; words; phrase; term; expression; remark ➜ 単語
• speech; (manner of) speaking
• learning to speak; language acquisition

noun:

• hill; height; knoll; rising ground ［丘・岡・壟］
• bonus points awarded to the winner at the end of a game ［丘・陸符］ - usually written using kana alone - Mahjong term

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• resuscitation; regeneration; restoration to life
• reformation; rehabilitation
• playback; regeneration (sound, etc.); view (of a video clip)
• reclamation; recovery
• rebirth; reincarnation

noun:

• simplified receipt with a blank line to be filled out with the customer's name (used specifically for claiming expenses)

expression / adjectival noun / noun:

• unintelligible language; incoherent language; talking nonsense; "all Greek to me"; double Dutch; (something) incomprehensible; babble; gibberish; jargon; gobbledygook

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• relief; reassurance

noun / ~する noun:

• recognition of right to land ownership (by the shogunate, a feudal lord, etc.) ➜ 本領安堵
• living safely surrounded by walls - orig. meaning - archaism

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• conclusion; resolution; firming up (plans, etc.); coming together; returning to normal
• gathering and bundling
• convergence - Mathematics term Antonym: 発散
• focusing (e.g. light); convergence ➜ 集束

noun:

• adding sounds to a soundtrack after a film has been made; postrecording; postsynchronization; postsynchronisation; postlooping; dubbing - From English "after recording"

noun:

• stubble; unshaven face; beard one has because one is too lazy to shave; 5-o'clock shadow

noun:

• simplified receipt with a blank line to be filled out with the customer's name (used specifically for claiming expenses)

noun:

• pilloried criminal exposed to public view; public scorn or humiliation; person shamed in front of others

noun:

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

expression / noun:

• tempting thing; (too much of a) temptation; something that shouldn't be seen; the last thing one needs to see

noun:

• large text that appears in ads or brochures to catch the reader's attention (in copywriting) - From English "catch copy"

noun / ~する noun:

• revenge
• making a new attempt where one previously failed; determination of a loser to win the next time ➜ リターンマッチ

noun / ~する noun:

• make a choice among many; select the good (desirable, necessary, relevant) and discard the rest; decision to adopt or reject - four character idiom

expression:

• (of a choice) one being as excellent as the other; both so beautiful it is hard to choose between - idiom

noun:

• magnet school (public school offering special instruction in order to attract a more diverse student body)

expression:

• to rule a country requires many great men; an expensive fur coat will not be made with a single fox [literal] - proverb