noun:

• tactic of avoiding hitting the ball (e.g. to tire out the pitcher) - Baseball term - From English "waiting"
• waiting; holding back; refraining

noun:

• large sketchbook used during TV filming to notify the cast of special stage direction, relay messages, etc.; cue card - abbreviation ➜ カンニングペーパー
• crib sheet; cheat sheet - abbreviation ➜ カンニングペーパー

noun:

• thin-culmed dwarf bamboo (growing in clusters) ➜ 篠竹【しのだけ】
• Japanese transverse bamboo flute (high-pitched; usu. with seven holes) ［しの］ - abbreviation ➜ 篠笛
• sliver (strand of loose fibers) ［しの］

noun:

• man in good health between 21 and 60 years of age to whom applied various corvee and taxes (under the ritsuryo system)

noun:

• whitefin surgeonfish (Acanthurus albipectoralis, species of Western Pacific tang found on the Great Barrier Reef through the Coral Sea to Tonga)

noun:

• bow-shaped whale-bone or copper hairpins used to increase the volume on the side of a woman's hair (Edo period) - archaism - obscure term

noun:

• macrobiotics; prevention and cure of disease through diet (as expounded by Sagen Ishizuka (1850-1909))
• taking nourishing food; eating a balanced diet - abbreviation ➜ 食養生【しょくようじょう】
• dietetics ➜ 食事療法学

noun:

• dish of potatoes first boiled, then spun around while fried in a bowl (making them look as if covered in powder) - Food term

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to go mad
• to get out of order; to go amiss

noun:

• new word; neologism; word of recent origin; recent word; modern term

noun:

• the text; the main clause; the main part of a document - Linguistics term

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to poke fun at; to make fun of; to send up

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to get information; to find out; to get wind of

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be in pain (referring to others); to complain of pain ➜ 痛い・がる

noun:

• stabilizing the feelings of the people; inspiring confidence among the people - four character idiom

yodan ~ふ verb (archaic):

• to say; to be pleased to say (hint of sarcasm) - polite language

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be ready to cry; to be on the point of tears

noun:

• The Nonpareil Kitchen; The Kitchen of the Nation (nickname for Osaka)

noun:

• homothetic ratio; similitude ratio; ratio of magnification; dilation factor; scale factor - Mathematics term

noun:

• giant clam (any clam of subfamily Tridacnidae) - abbreviation ➜ しゃこ貝
• giant clam shell ➜ 七宝

noun:

• rough draft of a book; draft-manuscript book; dummy comic book

expression:

• God's gift; God's blessing; grace of God; godsend

noun:

• real world; outside world (e.g. the world outside of school)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to have guts; to be plucky; to have nerves of steel ➜ 肝【きも】・度胸が据わる【どきょうがすわる】・腹が据わる【はらがすわる】

noun / ~する noun:

• finding oneself; self-discovery; journey of self-discovery; search for self