noun / ~する noun:

• removing a bad taste; cleansing one's palate

noun:

• palate cleanser; intermezzo; dish or beverage to cleanse one's palate between dishes of a meal

noun:

• recognition and guarantee, by the shogunate, of ownership of the inherited estate of a samurai who pledged allegiance to it (in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods) - four character idiom

noun:

• representative director; managing director; president; someone chosen by the board of directors from among the directors to actually represent the company in its dealings with the outside world

noun:

• disappearance of snow (i.e. due to melting) - obscure term
• lack of snow (i.e. snow not falling) - obscure term

interjection:

• va-va-vroom (esp. fast cars or bikes, sexy women or men); va-voom; vrrrm - onomatopoeia ➜ ぶるん
• sound of animal shaking its fur to dry off after getting wet (esp. dogs) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• animal abuse; animal cruelty; cruelty to animals; cruelty toward animals

noun / ~する noun:

• face-to-face talk; direct communication; direct dialogue; direct talk

noun / ~する noun:

• being enthusiastic about; being wild about; being absorbed in; being engrossed in; being devoted to

~する noun:

• to block (e.g. the way)

noun:

• block (lump of something (usu. square), area of town, etc.)
• bloc

noun / ~する noun:

• block; physical record (e.g. on magnetic tape) - IT term

noun / ~する noun:

• sideslip; skid; sliding sideways
• shifting to another post (at the same level); sideways move (at a company)
• sliding sideways down a slope (skiing)

noun:

• slicing a fish down its back
• slit in the back of a garment
• split in a piece of lumber (to prevent splitting when drying)

noun:

• pearlscale butterflyfish (Chaetodon xanthurus, Western Pacific species found from Indonesia and the Philippines north to the Ryukyu Islands); Philippines chevron butterflyfish; orange butterflyfish; netted butterflyfish; yellow-tailed butterflyfish

noun:

• launching; launch
• end (of a theatrical run, etc.)
• closing party (e.g. a theater show); cast party; party to celebrate successful completion of a project ➜ 打ち上げ会【うちあげかい】

noun:

• comparing and adjusting; reconciling; knocking into shape; bouncing of ideas, opinions, etc. off each other to obtain a fine-tuned integrated whole
• lapping; precision surface finishing; mating by rubbing together - Engineering term
• margination - usually written using kana alone - Medicine term

noun / suffix noun:

• seat; place; position
• status
• gathering; group
• stand; pedestal; platform
• (historical) trade guild

suffix:

• attaches to the names of theatres, theatrical troupes, and constellations

suffix / counter:

• counter for theatres, deities, Buddhist images, tall mountains, and satokagura songs ➜ 里神楽

noun:

• indigenous person; inhabitant of a country
• local; native ［くにびと］
• local lords and samurai
• daimyo who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period) ［くにうど・くにゅうど］ ➜ ざいこくしゅう

noun:

• archaic period of time (usu. a period of approx. two hours corresponding to one of the signs of the Chinese zodiac)
• carving; engraving; cutting; mincing ［刻］
• victory ［剋］
• strictness; cruelty

noun:

• toll-free number - From English "free dial"
• free dial (e.g. device or combination lock that can be set to any number)

noun:

• gatekeeper (in suicide prevention); person who prevents others from committing suicide (by noticing they are depressed and talking to them about it, etc.)
• gatekeeper (in media, networking, etc.)

noun:

• match where the umpire disqualifies the coach and one player after the player has done something dangerous (such as hit by pitch; to prevent retaliation by the opposing team) - Baseball term

noun:

• daruma; tumbling doll; round, red-painted good-luck doll in the shape of Bodhidharma, with a blank eye to be completed when a person's wish is granted
• Bodhidharma
• prostitute

noun / ~する noun:

• drawing away from someone because of their speech or actions; having the mood ruined
• zooming out or backing the camera away to get a wider image (film, TV)

expression:

• it's no big deal; it's nothing to fret about; it's not like it's the end of the world

noun:

• rolling pin for making horse chestnut noodles
• hurry; haste; comparison to someone making horse chestnut noodles which requires great haste

noun:

• Collections of the Twenty-One Eras; twenty-one collections of waka compiled by imperial command (early Heian to early Muromachi) ➜ 勅撰和歌集