expression:

• paying for one's mistakes; getting one's just deserts; suffering the consequences (of one's own actions); reaping what you sow - idiom

adjective:

• irritating (e.g. tone of voice); fretful; boring (e.g. work); tedious (chore, person); depressing; dark (e.g. story) - Kansai dialect

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to surpass the rest (e.g. of a large group); to stand out from the crowd; to be the best by far ➜ 抜群

noun:

• orange pekoe (grade of black tea)

noun:

• amicus curiae; friend of the court - Law term

noun:

• structure; construction; appearance
• posture (e.g. in martial arts); pose; stance
• readiness; determination; preparedness
• kanji enclosure type radical (must enclose at least two sides of the kanji) - e.g. 門

expression:

• till; to; over (a period); through (e.g. Monday through Thursday); about (approx. time or place); on
• concerning (an area of expertise)
• swearing by (one's sword, God, etc.)

noun:

• any brown or reddish-brown frog (esp. of family Ranidae)
• Japanese brown frog (Rana japonica); brown frog ➜ 日本赤蛙

noun:

• 100% buckwheat noodles; buckwheat noodles made from buckwheat flour only, without the addition of wheat flour ➜ 生そば【なまそば】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to become seriously ill; to catch an incurable illness
• to become a slave of a habit

adverb / ~と adverb:

• intermittently; bit by bit; little by little; by ones and twos - onomatopoeia
• in drops (e.g. of rain) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• tōsō-on; Tang-Song reading; on reading of a kanji based on Song dynasty and later Chinese ➜ 唐音【とうおん】

noun:

• senior high school (esp. the senior high school section of a school that also encompasses other grades)

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to burst into flames
• to fire (of a gun)
• to fan a fire with one's breath

noun:

• light distribution (e.g. in candle-power or candela); luminous intensity distribution; spatial distribution of luminous intensity

noun:

• doubleband surgeonfish (Acanthurus tennentii, species of Indian Ocean tang); lieutenant surgeon; lieutenant surgeonfish; lieutenant tang

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take up a lot of space; to have a large space to oneself

noun:

• multiple-system operator; multi-system operator; MSO; operator of multiple cable or direct-broadcast satellite television systems

expression / adverb:

• by the end of this year; before the year comes to a close; during this year

noun:

• La France pear (var. of French pear); Claude Blanchet pear
• La France rose

expression / ichidan verb:

• to digress; to stray from the subject
• to miss the target; to fly wide of the mark

noun / ~する noun:

• landing on an aircraft carrier; deck-landing
• reaching a warship; arrival of a warship (at a port)

noun:

• one's own country
• home country (as opposed to a colony)
• country of one's ancestors

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to lie down; to stretch out
• to lie ahead (of danger, difficulty, etc.); to lie in wait

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to handle (men); to master (a tool); to manage; to acquire a command of (a language)