noun:

• non-equivalence operation; EXCLUSIVE-OR operation - IT term

noun:

• polishing one's sword; "improving one's talents or knowledge" [figurative] - obscure term

noun:

• apron of a gun; cover for the touch-hole on a cannon or matchlock ➜ 火蓋を切る

noun / ~する noun / adjectival noun:

• assiduousness; attending diligently to one's study or duties - four character idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to change clothes (on someone else, e.g. child, doll); to change the wallpaper or skin (of a smart phone, etc.)

noun:

• one's wife; one's wife and daughter or daughters

noun / ~する noun:

• hibernation; staying home or in place

noun:

• off-flavor; bitterness or other unpleasant taste that detracts from the flavour of a drink

noun:

• Lamnidae; family of large, fast-swimming sharks known as mackerel sharks or white sharks

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to let your hair down; to have fun after a period of work or stress

expression:

• no one at all; no one, who he or she may be

noun:

• long homeroom; occasional or periodic extra long registration class or assembly in a school (e.g. for activities not related to class work) ➜ ホームルーム

noun:

• highest honorifics; honorific language mainly reserved for speaking of or to a member of the Imperial family - Linguistics term

noun:

• blue film; early (1950s-) type of hardcore pornographic film usually filmed on 8 or 16mm film and often in black market circulation

noun:

• lamplighter; town employee who lit oil or gas streetlights

noun / ~する noun:

• sympathy vomiting; vomiting due to the sight or the smell of another person's vomit

expression:

• come!; imperative form of the verb "kuru" ("to come"), expressing a command or strong request ➜ 来る【くる】

noun:

• solitary non-employed person; non-employed person aged 20-59, not married or engaged in study who has no social interactions with anybody outside their family - From English

noun:

• allocation of replotted land; government acquisition of land by substitution or compensation

noun:

• good luck charm; something that encourages or invites good luck

noun:

• being on stage without respite; going out or being in attendance continuously

expression:

• anything is better than nothing; kail spares bread; a bellyful is a bellyful, whether it be meat or drink; tea in the belly (will fill it) for a time [literal] - proverb

noun:

• batting eye; ability to judge whether a pitch will be called a ball or a strike - Baseball term

noun:

• right and wrong; right or wrong

adverb:

• several times; once or twice