expression:

• person (generally male) who won't learn their lesson; persistent jerk

interjection:

• excuse me! (when calling out to someone) - archaism
• right?; don't you agree? - archaism

noun:

• direction; way
• point of the compass; cardinal direction; bearing ➜ 方位
• method; means; approach

noun:

• Bartlett Act (1964)
• Bartlett method; technique for estimating power spectra

expression:

• (as for (that)) thing; (given (that)) thing; matter; fact - from ことでは
• (it is a ~) thing; matter; fact - from ことじゃ, equiv. to ことだ - Kansai dialect

noun / suffix:

• idiot; fool; touched in the head (from); out of it (from); space case
• funny man (of a comedy duo); (in comedy) silly or stupid line ➜ 漫才・突っ込み【つっこみ】
• Alzheimer's (impol)

noun:

• compared to our company's products (a phrase often used in advertising when comparing old and new products); in this company's comparison
• as I see it; by my estimate - colloquialism

noun:

• wrestling outside the formal tournaments; wrestling just for fun - archaism - Sumo term

expression:

• all you have to do is; just; that's all

adverb:

• finally; at last; at length ➜ 漸く【ようやく】・やっと
• barely; narrowly; hardly; only just ➜ 漸く【ようやく】・やっと

expression / temporal noun:

• right now; just now

conjunction:

• not limited to; not just ...

noun:

• Maru-ship; Japanese ship (because Japanese ship names often end in Maru)

adverbial noun / temporal noun / ~の noun:

• every month; monthly; month by month

expression:

• So many people, so many minds; Everyone has his own ideas and tastes; It takes all sorts to make a world; To each his (her) own - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• freely; in complete control of; with complete freedom; at will; as one pleases - four character idiom

auxiliary:

• if; in case; if it is the case that; if it is true that - hypothetical form of the copula だ, from なり and sometimes classed as a particle
• as for; on the topic of ［なら］

conjunction:

• if that's the case; if so; that being the case - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ それなら
• if possible; if circumstances allow ［ならば］

expression / adverb:

• one more; another; the other ➜ 今一つ【いまひとつ】
• not quite ➜ 今一つ【いまひとつ】
• close run; just falling short of success

noun:

• getting big laughs just from appearing on the stage (or screen, etc.) ➜ 落ち

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to chill one's bones (e.g. because of cold, pain, etc.); to be very cold; to be scathing

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to break (into pieces); to be broken; to be smashed
• to collapse; to crumble; to decline; to cool (e.g. enthusiasm); to dampen (e.g. one's will to fight)
• to become less formal; to throw off reserve; to become affable ➜ くだけた
• to become easy to understand (e.g. a story) ➜ くだけた
• to be worried

noun / ~の noun:

• middle of the road; centrism; moderation; golden mean

noun:

• the middle (of what one is doing); half-way
• middle way; middle path - Buddhism term

proper noun:

• Hachiko; Akita dog that waited every day at Shibuya station for the return of his owner (1923-1935) ➜ 忠犬ハチ公【ちゅうけんハチこう】

noun:

• Festival of Zeus (held at Olympia every four years from 776 BCE to 393 BCE) ➜ オリンピック

adverb:

• exactly; precisely; just; right
• as if; as though; quite