expression / adverb:

• if by any chance; just in case; in the worst case; in the unlikely event that; 10000 to 1 [literal]

noun:

• substitute national holiday; day off in lieu of a national holiday that falls on a Sunday; compensatory holiday

noun:

• half interchange (an interchange that lacks an exit or an entrance in either or both directions)

conjunction:

• then; and then; and; if so; because then; if that's the case ➜ それなら

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to pass (time); to spend
• to overdo (esp. of one's alcohol consumption); to drink (alcohol)
• to take care of; to support - archaism

godan ~す verb / auxiliary verb:

• to overdo; to do too much
• to ... without acting on it

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to tie up; to tie together; to bind; to bundle; to fasten
• to hang (oneself) - also written as 縊る ➜ 首を括る
• to summarize; to put (it all) together; to consolidate
• to estimate; to expect ➜ 高を括る
• to tie-dye ➜ 括り染め
• to detain; to check; to restrain - archaism

noun:

• shower effect (theory that placing high-selling items on the upper floors of a department store will lead to increased sales in the lower floors) ➜ 噴水効果

noun:

• vine; bine; tendril; runner
• bow; temple arm; sidepiece; lug arm; earpiece; part of a pair of glasses that goes over the ear
• connections; contacts; influence; financial supporter

noun:

• gold wheel (highest of the three layered wheels that support the earth above the primordial void) - Buddhism term
• gold wheel-turning sage king - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 金輪王

auxiliary:

• seeming to be; appearing to be - usu. at sentence-end
• like; similar to ➜ ような
• in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that ➜ ように
• indicates hope, wish, request or mild command - as ように at sentence-end

expression:

• if you can't beat them; join them; if your adversaries are stronger than you, it is better to join their side than to fight them - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• straining; draining

noun:

• drainer; strainer; colander
• cutwater (on ship); forefoot; drip (on building); flashing; throating; starling (on bridge)
• stone skipping; skipping rocks; ducks and drakes

noun / ~する noun:

• snipping the stem of a cut flower without raising it out of water

expression:

• like it or not; like or not like - usu. 〜...ない, etc. ➜ 好き嫌い【すききらい】

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• (following a verb) to be sure to; to do (something) so that ...; to make sure to; to try to

noun:

• rental mobile phone; rental cell phone; cell phone that is rented

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get back to normal; to get back into one's stride; to get back into the swing of it

expression:

• trying to straighten the horns of a bull, and killing it in the process; trying to correct a small defect and ruining the whole thing; The cure is worse than the disease - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• seeing something that isn't actually there; hallucination; mistaking for something or someone else
• pretending not to see; looking the other way; turning a blind eye ➜ 見ぬふり【みぬふり】
• looking upwards ➜ 上目【うわめ】

noun:

• expanded system of guilt by association in Japanese election law, which stipulates that an elected official may lose his position if someone in his campaign commits a crime ➜ 連座制

noun:

• stick-to-itiveness; perseverance; persistence
• radical (esp. one that tends to ionize easily) ➜ 基【き】
• root - Mathematics term
• indriya (faculty of the body having a specific function, i.e. the sensory organs) - Buddhism term

noun:

• catchers who warm up pitchers in the bullpen - Baseball term
• tank (character that soaks up damage for the rest of the party in an MMORPG)

expression:

• a state called; a position described as; can sum up as; approximates to
• places known as; that called
• the place named

expression:

• person who swaggers about under borrowed authority; small man acting arrogantly through borrowed authority; a fox that borrows the authority of a tiger [literal] - idiom

expression:

• the flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long; the well with sweet water will be the first to run dry [literal] - proverb

noun:

• the concerned government agencies; the ministries and agencies that are relevant to the matter at hand; the relevant authorities - four character idiom