noun:

• opening of a banquet; opening of a wedding reception

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to have a drink; to have a few drinks

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to have a trade; to have a vocation ➜ 手に職をつける

expression:

• where there's a will, there's a way - proverb

noun / ~の noun:

• rule; regulation
• settlement; conclusion; end; agreement; arrangement
• habit; custom; habitual way ➜ 御決まり
• countenance in front of another person; face - usu. as 決まりが悪い, etc. ➜ 決まりが悪い
• love relationship between a customer and a prostitute - archaism

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be in a tizzy; to be in a frenzy; to have one's eyes light up; to have a different look in one's eyes

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to take a breath; to gather one's breath; to catch one's breath
• to take a rest; to take a break

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to curry favour; to butter up; to fawn over; to humour someone (humor); to put in a good mood (e.g. a baby)

noun / ~する noun:

• starting a train (or bus, etc.) before all the passengers are on board
• making a snap decision; starting an action without considering objections to it any longer

noun:

• cutting a person down (without a second thought); sacrificing; throwing to the wolves; treating as sword fodder
• omission; rounding down (e.g. fractions); truncation ➜ 切り上げ

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to write incorrectly; to miswrite
• to spoil (e.g. a letter) due to writing mistakes; to ruin; to make a mess of

noun:

• soup served at the end of a traditional Japanese dinner; last soup served in a Kaiseki course (often miso soup) ➜ 会席料理

noun:

• tamponade; blockage or closure of a wound or body cavity by (or as if by) a tampon (esp. to stop bleeding) - Medicine term ➜ 心タンポナーデ【しんタンポナーデ】

noun:

• station melody; departure melody; melody sounded on a station platform just before the doors of a train are closed

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to write incorrectly; to miswrite
• to spoil (e.g. a letter) due to writing mistakes; to ruin; to make a mess of

expression:

• size isn't everything; something might be small but still pack a punch; Japanese pepper is small-grained but has a tongue-numbing tingle [literal] - proverb

noun:

• arm glove; arm warmer; sleevelet
• bracelet
• leather thread on guard or pommel of a sword
• hole in the butt end of a Chinese spear

noun:

• massage and possibly sexual services performed by a female high school student or young woman wearing a high school uniform - slang ➜ ｊｋ【ジェイケイ】・リフレ

noun:

• drive; trip by car; driving

~する noun / intransitive verb:

• to (go for a) drive; to go on a trip by car

~する noun / transitive:

• to drive (e.g. a car)
• to drive (innovation, change, etc.); to propel

noun:

• drive - IT term

noun:

• false start; jumping the gun - From English "flying start"
• flying start; running start
• broadcasting a television or radio program a few minutes before its scheduled time

noun:

• swastika (esp. a counterclockwise swastika as a Buddhist symbol); fylfot; gammadion - used as a symbol for Buddhist temples on maps ➜ ハーケンクロイツ
• swastika-shaped family crest

interjection:

• wow; yeah; ugh; yuck; awesome; really; let's go ［卍］ - usu. at the beginning or/and end of a sentence or word but also by itself; used for emphasis, etc. - slang

noun:

• eaves (of roof)
• narrow aisle surrounding the core of a temple building - Architecture term
• visor (of a cap); brim; peak
• classic Japanese women's low pompadour hairstyle - abbreviation ➜ 庇髪

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to go by; to go past; to go along; to travel along; to pass through; to use (a road); to take (a route); to go via; to go by way of
• to run (between); to operate (between); to connect - of public transport
• to go indoors; to go into a room; to be admitted; to be shown in; to be ushered in; to come in
• to penetrate; to pierce; to skewer; to go through; to come through
• to permeate; to soak into; to spread throughout
• to carry (e.g. of a voice); to reach far
• to be passed on (e.g. of a customer's order to the kitchen); to be relayed; to be conveyed
• to pass (a test, a bill in the House, etc.); to be approved; to be accepted
• to go by (a name); to be known as; to be accepted as; to have a reputation for
• to be coherent; to be logical; to be reasonable; to be comprehensible; to be understandable; to make sense
• to get across (e.g. of one's point); to be understood
• to be straight (e.g. wood grain)
• to be well-informed; to be wise - archaism

suffix / godan ~る verb:

• to do ... completely; to do ... thoroughly - after the -masu stem of a verb

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• a long time (since the last time); first in a long time

noun:

• figure of a person; figures of people
• shadow of a person