adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• noisily (e.g. from many people talking); creating a commotion - onomatopoeia
• rustling (leaves) - onomatopoeia
• feeling a chill; getting the chills - onomatopoeia

noun / ~の noun:

• putting one's life on the line; giving everything one has got; acting out of desperation

noun:

• chef (esp. of high-end Japanese cuisine); cook - Kantō dialect ➜ 板場【いたば】
• area of a kitchen that contains the chopping board - orig. meaning

noun:

• safety device for the aged that calls for help if not activated periodically - From English "silver online"

noun:

• standard motorcycle; naked bike; style of motorcycle having the engine exposed and visible

noun:

• transmission of the secrets of an art, craft, trade or learning from father to only one child - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• Apocrypha (i.e. as opposed to the Biblical canon) ➜ 正典
• non-Buddhist writings (esp. Confucian writings) - usu. げてん - Buddhism term ➜ 内典

noun:

• land which one visits; alien land; topsoil brought from another place to mix with the soil

noun / ~する noun:

• giving up children for adoption or apprenticeship, etc. (out of poverty); reducing the number of mouths [literal]

noun:

• mole (Talpidae spp., esp. the small Japanese mole, Mogera imaizumii)

noun:

• tofu skin; dried beancurd; delicacy made from the skin of gently boiled soybean milk

noun:

• six consciousnesses (i.e. functions of the six sense organs: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and reasoning) - Buddhism term

noun:

• troubles brought on by what one has written; incident occasioned by a serious slip of the pen - four character idiom

noun:

• arm-barring force out; locking arms around an opponent and pushing him out of the ring - Sumo term

~の noun / noun:

• existing (at the present moment) ➜ 在る【ある】

adjectival noun / noun:

• alright; acceptable; passable - colloquialism

~る verb (irregular) / intransitive verb:

• to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to have ➜ 在る【ある】・在る【ある】

noun:

• manga cafe; coffee shop with a manga library (usu. has Internet facilities and charges by the hour) - abbreviation ➜ 漫画喫茶

expression:

• to only look the part (but otherwise be wholly unsuited for it); a monkey wearing a crown - idiom

noun:

• fiber to the x (generic term for any network architecture that uses optical fiber) (fibre); FTTx

noun:

• aligning one's chopsticks by tapping them on the table, a dish, etc. (a breach of etiquette)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to not try to fix an error but rather make it look good on the surface only

noun:

• attending foreign language study at a school near the train station (esp. used as a NOVA catchphrase)

expression:

• financially ruining oneself by buying too many clothes (as a fabled tendency of the people of Kyoto) ➜ 大阪の食い倒れ・着倒れ

noun:

• iteration mark used to represent repetition of the previous kanji (to be read using its kun-yomi) ➜ 踊り字

noun / ~の noun:

• near point (closest point at which an object can be brought into focus by the eye) ➜ 遠点【えんてん】
• periapsis - Astronomy term ➜ 遠点【えんてん】

noun:

• far point (farthest point at which an object can be brought into focus by the eye) ➜ 近点【きんてん】
• apoapsis - Astronomy term ➜ 近点【きんてん】