noun:

• one-liner; funny joke; gag; quick trick

noun:

• rush job; slipshod job; quick-and-dirty work

noun:

• muscle-brain; meathead; hot-blooded idiot; person who charges in before thinking - slang

noun / ~の noun:

• daredevil; reckless; thinking nothing of one's death - four character idiom

adjective:

• quarrelsome; easy to anger; quick to lose temper ➜ 喧嘩早い【けんかばやい】

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to make a slip of the tongue; to say something inadvertently; to blurt out without thinking

adjectival noun:

• demonstrative; ratiocinative; based on exact thinking

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make a slip of the tongue; to say something inadvertently; to blurt out without thinking

expression / adjective:

• muddleheaded; knowing no better; not thinking about ➜ 頭が回る【あたまがまわる】

noun / ~する noun:

• careful consideration; deliberation; thinking over carefully

noun / ~する noun:

• ceasing to think; refusing to think critically; giving up thinking (for oneself)
• going blank; mental block; inability to think clearly

adjectival noun:

• negative (e.g. thinking) Antonym: ポジティブ

noun:

• negative (photography)
• negative (electrical polarity) ➜ 陰極

adjectival noun:

• positive (e.g. thinking) Antonym: ネガティブ

noun:

• positive (photography)
• positive (electrical polarity) ➜ 陽極【ようきょく】

noun / ~の noun:

• money-centered way (of thinking) ➜ お金本位

adjectival noun / noun:

• discerning (quick) eye; keen insight

noun / ~の noun:

• money-centered way (of thinking) ➜ 金本位【かねほんい】

noun:

• sensibilities (feelings, way of thinking) of the common people; popular sentiment - four character idiom

expression / adjective:

• old-fashioned (in one's way of thinking)

expression:

• having thought for neither gain nor greed; only wanting to do something (thinking about nothing else)

noun:

• hiring from another company; recruitment; scouting; headhunting
• quick costume change in kabuki (taking off outer costume)
• drawing (wire, pipes, metal plate)

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to peek (though a keyhole, gap, etc.)
• to look down into (a ravine, etc.)
• to peek into (a shop, bookstore, etc.)
• to sneak a look at; to take a quick look at
• to peep (through a telescope, microscope, etc.)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to stick out (a scarf from a collar, etc.); to peek through (sky through a forest canopy, etc.)

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to examine (an expression); to study (a face)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to face - esp. 臨く - archaism ➜ 臨む

expression / adjectival noun:

• clear-cut and straightforward - idiom
• (of a person) forward-thinking; honest; upright; frank - idiom

expression:

• from right to left; in one ear and out the other
• nice and quick; with speed and address; without further ado

~く adjective (archaic):

• sharp - esp. 利し, 鋭し - archaism
• intense; strong; powerful - esp. 疾し, 鋭し - archaism
• quick; rapid; fast - esp. 疾し, 捷し - archaism
• keen; sharp; clever - esp. 敏し, 聆し - archaism

noun:

• tree swayed by the wind ➜ 風木
• thinking about one's deceased parents - archaism ➜ 風樹の嘆