noun:

• representative director; managing director; president; someone chosen by the board of directors from among the directors to actually represent the company in its dealings with the outside world

noun:

• taking a day off by paying one's own fee to one's master (of a prostitute; often in order to see her lover)

expression:

• going well together; good combination - idiom

noun:

• family crest featuring a ring of bamboo with a sparrow in the middle
• design featuring bamboo and sparrows (motif in Japanese painting)

noun:

• valuation; estimation; assessment; evaluation; rating

~する noun:

• to value; to assess; to rate; to estimate value
• to appreciate; to value highly; to acknowledge the value (of something)

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to decide to
• to pretend that - after the past tense form of a verb
• to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to - as 〜ことにしている

noun / ~の noun:

• under the wing (esp. of an aircraft)
• under one's wing; under one's control

noun:

• one plot (of land); one block (i.e. one city block); one area; one lot
• one brush stroke; one kanji stroke

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to drink; to gulp; to swallow; to take (medicine) - 呑む is often used metaphorically; 服む is often used for medicine
• to smoke (tobacco) - also written 喫む ➜ 喫む
• to engulf; to overwhelm
• to keep down; to suppress
• to accept (e.g. demand, condition)
• to make light of; to conceal

noun:

• details; particulars; whole story; sequence of events; chronology; circumstances; how it started; how things got this way ［いきさつ・けいい］
• longitude and latitude ［けいい］
• warp and weft; warp and woof ［けいい・たてぬき・たてよこ］ - orig. meaning of けいい ➜ 縦横【たてよこ】

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to hate the very sight of; to hold a grudge against; to treat like an enemy; to bear constant enmity; to be gunning for; to have it in for

interjection:

• va-va-vroom (esp. fast cars or bikes, sexy women or men); va-voom; vrrrm - onomatopoeia ➜ ぶるん
• sound of animal shaking its fur to dry off after getting wet (esp. dogs) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• right of prior use; prior use rights; prior user rights

noun:

• ban on import; import ban; import prohibition; prohibition of importation

noun:

• global language; world language
• languages of the world; world languages

expression / ichidan verb:

• to speak to; to give a (something) talk to; to speak words of (something)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to give oneself to (esp. of a woman to a man); to surrender oneself to

noun / ~する noun:

• losing by being overmatched; being defeated by a stronger opponent
• losing by misusing one's powers; defeat as a result of trying too hard

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to pass the peak (of something); to get through the most difficult part; to be over the worst (e.g. an illness) - idiom
• to cross a pass - orig. meaning

noun:

• red eyes; bloodshot eyes
• red-eye ➜ 赤目現象
• red mullet (Chelon haematocheilus) - usually written using kana alone ➜ 赤目魚
• facial gesture of pulling one's eyelid down and sticking out one's tongue

expression / ichidan verb:

• to pass the peak (of something); to get through the most difficult part; to be over the worst (e.g. an illness) - idiom ➜ 峠を越す
• to cross a pass - orig. meaning

expression / ichidan verb:

• to drag things out; to creep up slowly on the point; to strangle (execute) slowly with a silk cord (instead of quickly with a rope) [literal]

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to take care of - archaism
• to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with - archaism ➜ 持て余す

ichidan verb:

• to be saucy (of children); to be impudent; to be cheeky; to be sassy; to be precocious

expression / adverb:

• by choice; of one's own free will; on one's own initiative; off one's own bat

noun:

• one's own ground; one's own position; one's own area of the field (soccer, rugby, etc.)