ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to put on a moderate amount of lean or firm weight; to gain healthy weight (e.g. from muscle); to become overweight as opposed to obese

expression:

• we were all beginners once; never lose your humility; don't let success get to your head; don't forget where you came from - proverb

adverb / ~と adverb:

• by ones and twos - onomatopoeia
• tears or flower petals falling quietly - onomatopoeia ➜ はらはら・ぼろぼろ
• gurgling bird sound - onomatopoeia
• falling apart; crumbling; melting (in one's mouth) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• dish made from fiveleaf aralia sprouts, pickled daikon, walnuts, etc. - Food term

noun:

• anonymous scholarship system for orphans whose parents have been killed in traffic accidents (from Daddy-Long-Legs, a 1912 novel by Jean Webster) ➜ 大蚊
• harvestman; daddy longlegs (arachnid of order Opiliones)

noun / ~する noun:

• shift away from manufacturing to an information and service-based economy - Economics term
• softening
• release (e.g. of a movie) on home video (e.g. DVD, BD, VHS)

expression:

• unthinkable; unexpected; outrageous; offensive ➜ とんでもない
• absolutely not!; not at all!; far from it!; impossible!; preposterous!; what a thing to say!; no way! - colloquialism ➜ とんでもない
• don't mention it; you're welcome ➜ とんでもない

noun:

• using one's chopsticks to jump from side dish to side dish without pausing to eat rice in between (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 渡り箸

noun:

• using one's chopsticks to jump from side dish to side dish without pausing to eat rice in between (a breach of etiquette) ➜ 移り箸

noun:

• joint party (e.g. by students from several colleges); combined party; mixer; two or more groups, esp. female and male students, combining for a party ➜ 合コン

noun / ~する noun:

• joint party (e.g. by students from several colleges); combined party; mixer; two or more groups, esp. female and male students, combining for a party - abbreviation ➜ 合同コンパ

expression / ~くる verb (spec.):

• along comes a sucker just begging to be parted from his money; a duck comes carrying a Welsh onion on its back [literal] ➜ 鴨鍋

noun:

• emerald tree monitor (Varanus prasinus, species of arboreal carnivorous monitor lizard found from New Guinea to Queensland, Australia); green tree monitor

~の noun / noun:

• used up (tea leaves, coffee grounds); insipid (tea, coffee made from such leaves or grounds); watery

noun:

• first-time customer (of an inn or a restaurant); chance customer; customer without an introduction from a regular customer ➜ 一見の客・一見客

noun:

• first-time customer (of an inn or a restaurant); chance customer; customer without an introduction from a regular customer ➜ 一見さん・一見客

noun:

• partition board; plank used as a partition
• board used in a ship to prevent the cargo from moving around

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to stray from the right path; to go wrong; to go off the rails; to turn delinquent

expression / ichidan verb:

• to flee from one's enemy; to turn tail
• to expose one's weakness to an adversary

noun:

• Socialist Party of Japan (until 1996, became the Social Democratic Party of Japan from 1996) ➜ 社会民主党【しゃかいみんしゅとう】

adverb / ~の noun / noun:

• from season to season; season by season; of each season; in each season - four character idiom

noun:

• compared to previous period; quarter-to-quarter basis; from the previous quarter

noun:

• detective story (esp. one from the Edo period featuring thief-takers) ➜ 目明かし・岡っ引き
• detective's memoirs; thief taker's memoirs

adverb / ~する noun:

• cool sensation from passing air; cool and refreshing (aftertaste) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• sound of air leaking; sound of a sleeper's breath

noun:

• approx. 80% of the way up a mountainside
• view of a light green mountain; mountain that appears green from afar

noun:

• pitch (i.e. pace, speed, angle, space, field, sound, etc.)
• pitch (from distilling petroleum, tar, etc.)
• pitch (football, rugby); playing field
• PHS portable phone - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ ＰＨＳ