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

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to throw; to cast away
• to face defeat; to give up

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to give up; to abandon (hope, plans); to resign oneself (to)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to recover; to rally; to improve; to pick up

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to hew; to chop up; to mangle; to mince

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to cross-stitch; to hemstitch; to sew (up); to darn

noun:

• clearing of accounts; evening-up of accounts; liquidation - Finance term

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to be built up; to be crowded with houses ➜ 立て込む

godan ~る verb:

• to fail; to mess up; to bungle; to screw the pooch - colloquialism ➜ ドジ

~くる verb (spec.):

• to come out; to appear; to turn up; to emerge

noun / ~の noun / adverbial noun / suffix noun:

• above; up; over; elder (e.g. daughter)
• top; summit
• surface; on
• before; previous
• superiority; one's superior (i.e. one's elder)
• on top of that; besides; what's more
• upon (further inspection, etc.); based on (and occurring after)
• matters concerning...; as concerns ...
• since (i.e. "for that reason") - as ...上は

suffix noun:

• suffix indicating higher social standing - honorific language ➜ 父上
• place of one's superior (i.e. the throne) - archaism
• emperor; sovereign; shogun; daimyo - archaism
• noblewoman (esp. the wife of a nobleman) - archaism

expression:

• after a short time; in a short while; a short time later

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to play a role; to serve a function; to play a part

noun / ~する noun:

• floating (e.g. in air, water); floatation; buoyancy; buoying up (e.g. economy)

~と adverb:

• very high; high up; aloft

adverb:

• at most; at best; no more than

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to boil up; to seethe
• to get excited; to be in an uproar

noun:

• pop-up window - IT term

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to eat oneself out of house and home; to eat up completely

godan ~る verb:

• to lurk; to hover in the background
• to be coiled up; to stretch tortuously

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get stuck with (some job); to end up with (something unpleasant)

noun:

• system follow-up; post-implementation review; post-development review - IT term

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to operate; to clean up; to inquire (into); to take drastic measures ➜ メスを入れる【メスをいれる】

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to prick up one's ears and listen; to listen attentively - from the Disney movie Dumbo ➜ 耳がダンボ【みみがダンボ】

noun:

• complete picture; panorama; what it all adds up to; bird's eye view; all-embracing portrait; overall perspective; overview

expression / noun:

• clincher; pick-up line; honeyed phrase; telling phrase; phrase that brings someone around, esp. in personal relationships ➜ 口説き文句【くどきもんく】