noun:

• female student or graduate of Waseda University
• woman who allegedly pursues a career at the expense of love, feminine interests, etc. - derogatory term

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to chase; to run after; to pursue; to follow after
• to follow (a set order, a trend, etc.)
• to drive out; to get rid of; to oust; to expel
• to drive (e.g. a herd)
• to be pressed (e.g. for time) - in passive voice

noun:

• shaved head; person with a shaved head - From English "skinhead"
• skinhead; shaved-headed member of a subculture often associated with Neo-nazism

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to drop; to lose; to let fall; to shed (light); to cast (one's gaze); to pour in (liquid); to leave behind
• to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose; to spend money at a certain place; to omit; to leave out; to secretly let escape
• to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to fail (a course); to defeat (in an election)
• to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice); to lessen (e.g. production or body weight); to worsen (quality); to reduce (e.g. rank or popularity); to speak badly of; to make light of; to fall into straitened circumstances
• to fall into (e.g. a dilemma or sin); to make one's own; to have one's bid accepted; to force surrender; to take (e.g. an enemy camp or castle); to forcefully convince; to press for a confession; to deal with
• to download; to copy from a computer to another medium - IT term
• to make someone swoon (judo) - Martial Arts term
• to finish a story (e.g. with the punch line)
• to finish (a period, e.g. of fasting)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be dispirited; to be dejected; to lose heart; to become discouraged; to be crestfallen; to be utterly disheartened; to be despondent

expression:

• like father, like son; the apple doesn't fall far from the tree; the child of a frog is a frog [literal] - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• taking a spectacular photograph (often of the female form); taking a photo at just the right moment - colloquialism

noun:

• powerful photograph; intense photograph

ichidan verb:

• to mark a stage, movie set, etc. with tape to indicate positions of actors, furniture, equipment, etc.; to block a set - from 場を見る - slang

noun / ~する noun:

• count; counting

noun:

• count of balls and strikes - Baseball term ➜ ボールカウント

noun / ~する noun:

• count (after a knock-down in boxing) - Sports term ➜ カウントアウト

noun:

• count (of radioactivity)

noun:

• Basic English; version of English with a maximum of 850 basic words

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to spread one's roots (of a tree, etc.); to take root (of an ideology, etc.)

noun:

• modern translation; translation into modern language (of a classical text, e.g. The Tale of Genji)

noun:

• extension of a straight line; (conclusion) following as an extension of (an argument) - four character idiom

noun:

• way of affixing something
• way of recording something (to a logbook, etc.)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to profit; to get; to earn; to gain
• to have (bear, beget) a child
• to have a stroke of luck

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to wither (of a plant); to be blasted; to die
• to mature (of one's personality, abilities, etc.)

noun:

• voir dire (hearing to determine the admissibility of evidence, or the competency of a witness or juror)

noun:

• simplified form (of a kanji); any of 22 simplified non-joyo kanji variants commonly used in print ➜ 常用漢字

noun:

• left skirt of a kimono
• geisha (because they often walked holding the left hem of their kimono) ➜ 芸妓

noun:

• first lighting of the hearth in a Zen temple (first day of the 10th or 11th month) ➜ 閉炉

noun:

• wealth and military strength of a country; "rich country, strong army": a slogan from the Meiji era referring to the government's goals for the country - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to run aground; to strike a rock; to be stranded on a reef
• to reach a deadlock; to come to a standstill; to run into difficulties; to hit a snag

noun:

• name of the writer of a gravestone epitaph, engraved after the epitaph

noun:

• being something of a politician; having something of the politician in one - four character idiom

noun:

• second guest of honour (at a tea ceremony); second guest of honor ➜ 正客