godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to clasp; to grasp; to grip; to clutch
• to make (nigirizushi, rice ball, etc.); to form; to press into shape; to mold; to mould
• to seize (power, etc.); to take hold of

noun:

• comparing and adjusting; reconciling; knocking into shape; bouncing of ideas, opinions, etc. off each other to obtain a fine-tuned integrated whole
• lapping; precision surface finishing; mating by rubbing together - Engineering term
• margination - usually written using kana alone - Medicine term

noun / suffix noun:

• seat; place; position
• status
• gathering; group
• stand; pedestal; platform
• (historical) trade guild

suffix:

• attaches to the names of theatres, theatrical troupes, and constellations

suffix / counter:

• counter for theatres, deities, Buddhist images, tall mountains, and satokagura songs ➜ 里神楽

noun:

• indigenous person; inhabitant of a country
• local; native ［くにびと］
• local lords and samurai
• daimyo who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period) ［くにうど・くにゅうど］ ➜ ざいこくしゅう

~と adverb / adverb:

• ticktock - onomatopoeia
• chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock); knocking; clicking; clacking; clattering - onomatopoeia

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• dry and hard; (frozen) stiff - onomatopoeia
• hidebound; die-hard; stubborn; obstinate; bigoted - onomatopoeia
• scared stiff; tense; nervous; frightened - onomatopoeia

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to launch; to shoot up
• (of waves) to dash; to wash up (ashore)
• to finish (e.g. a theater run, sumo tournament); to close
• to report (to boss, etc.)

adjectival noun / adverb / ~する noun:

• sticky - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• thickly (e.g. painted); heavily (applied) - onomatopoeia
• all over (pasting, stamping, etc.) - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• clinging (e.g. of a person); following around; being all over (each other); flirting - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• cliched; hackneyed - colloquialism ➜ べた

noun:

• daruma; tumbling doll; round, red-painted good-luck doll in the shape of Bodhidharma, with a blank eye to be completed when a person's wish is granted
• Bodhidharma
• prostitute

noun:

• seducer; smooth talker; ladies' man; playboy; playgirl

noun / ~する noun:

• picking up women (on the street) - usu. written as ナンパ - usually written using kana alone - colloquialism ➜ 逆ナン

noun:

• moderate party; moderate ➜ 硬派
• social story (in a newspaper, etc.); society columnist (of a newspaper)
• bearish trader; bear

noun / ~する noun:

• drawing away from someone because of their speech or actions; having the mood ruined
• zooming out or backing the camera away to get a wider image (film, TV)

noun:

• pivot hinge (using extensions on the top & bottom of a door that fit into cavities in the frame)
• sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut) ➜ 猿

noun:

• sexagenary cycle (60-year cycle of 12 animal zodiac and 5 elements in Chinese astrology)
• 12-year Chinese zodiac

expression:

• it's no big deal; it's nothing to fret about; it's not like it's the end of the world

noun:

• shiritori; word-chain game; word game in which players must give a word starting with the last syllable of the word given by the previous player

noun:

• Mount Penglai; Penglai Island; enchanted land of perpetual youth from Chinese mythology
• sacred mountain (e.g. Mount Fuji, Mount Kumano, etc.) ➜ 三蓬莱
• Kansai New Year decoration (made from food) - abbreviation ➜ 蓬莱飾り
• Formosa; Taiwan

expression:

• don't feed autumn eggplant to your wife (because they're too delicious, because they'll give her the chills, or because their lack of seeds will reduce her fertility) - proverb

adjectival noun:

• abstract (e.g. art, music)

noun:

• abstract art - abbreviation ➜ アブストラクトアート
• abstract (e.g. of a paper); summary; extract

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to take a rest under a tree; to rest in the shade of a tree

expression:

• The evil persons are the right object of Amida's salvation; The evil persons have the unique opportunity to go to heaven - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to cast amorous glances at a man (of a woman); to make eyes at; to give (someone) the eye; to make advances

noun:

• bizarre literature; the literature of the bizarre - four character idiom

noun:

• the world of music; the music world

noun:

• modern art museum; museum of modern art

noun:

• contemporary art museum; museum of contemporary art

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be sufficient; to be enough
• to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to deserve - in the form に足りる after a verb ➜ 取るに足りない
• to do (the job); to serve; to answer