noun:

• welling (up); gushing forth (of water); springing out; surging
• appearing (esp. suddenly)
• frothing of water (due to an advancing school of fish)

noun / ~する noun:

• Galapagosization; widespread design of Japanese products (e.g. cell phones) specifically for the domestic market, which are therefore unsuccessful overseas and also vulnerable to competition from imports - because the Galapagos contains many endemic species

~の noun:

• business-to-business; inter-business; inter-enterprise; B2B

expression / adjectival noun / adverb:

• as if ...; as if to say ...; as though ... - usu. ...とでもいうよう

numeric:

• one-thousandth; 0.03 mm (one-thousandth of a sun); 0.01 percent (one-thousandth of a wari); 3.75 milligrams (one-thousandth of a monme)

noun:

• old monetary unit (0.0001 yen)

noun:

• classical form of na-adjective inflection formed by contraction of the particle "to" with the classical verb "ari" ("aru")

noun:

• younger woman (usu. 20-30 years old) who is physically attracted to mature older men (usu. 50-60 years old) - from 枯れたおじいさん専門

noun:

• northern ridge-tailed monitor (Varanus primordius, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to the Northern Territory of Australia); blunt-spined goanna

noun:

• Chinese coinage produced during the reign of the Yongle Emperor (used in Japan from the Muromachi period to the early Edo period)

noun:

• (crime of) incapacitated rape; crime of sexual assault against somebody who is intoxicated, asleep or otherwise unable to consent or resist - Law term

noun:

• porcelain art; artwork involving application of decals, etc. to white porcelain

noun / ~の noun:

• resistance (e.g. to antibiotics); tolerance (e.g. drug tolerance)

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• surpassing everything; better than anything

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be better than anything - obscure term

noun:

• performance-based pay; achievement-based pay; payment linked to performance

noun:

• tirthika; non-Buddhist teachings; non-Buddhist - Buddhism term Antonym: 内道
• heterodoxy; unorthodoxy; heresy; heretic
• demon; fiend; devil; brute; bad person - derogatory term
• type of fish one did not intend to catch

noun:

• large staple driven into two pieces of wood to hold them together; clamp; cramp (metal)
• tie (metaphorical, e.g. something that binds two people together)

noun:

• straggling hair; hair too short to be tied or arranged with the rest of the hair (typically around the sideburns); lovelock ➜ 後れ毛

noun:

• rod; pole
• neck (of a shamisen, etc.); shamisen - esp. 棹
• beam (i.e. the crossbar of a balance)
• single line (esp. as a flying formation for geese)
• penis - slang

counter:

• counter for flags (on poles); counter for long, thin Japanese sweets (e.g. youkan)

noun:

• lighthouse
• old-fashioned interior light fixture comprising a wooden pole with an oil-filled dish and a wick atop it

noun / ~する noun:

• preliminary inspection; having a look in advance
• preparatory read-through (e.g. of lesson notes)

noun:

• siding (on a house); clapboard; weatherboard ➜ 下見板【したみいた】

noun:

• kitchen with a small counter for eating, usu. allowing a view into the living and dining rooms - From English "counter kitchen"

noun:

• sheathing (under thatched roofing) - abbreviation
• lath (used as a foundation for a mud plaster wall)
• decorative rafters (of alternating wood and bamboo) ➜ 桟竹

noun:

• humorous mask of a homely woman's face (characterized by a small low nose, high flat forehead, and bulging cheeks)

noun:

• manner of speaking
• verbal argument
• objection; protesting a decision (esp. that of a sumo referee)
• rumor; rumour

noun:

• corsage; small bouquet worn by a woman - From French
• bodice of a woman's dress - archaism