noun / ~する noun:

• natural extinction; dying a natural death; coming to a natural end

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• feeling refreshed; feeling relieved - onomatopoeia
• neat; tidy; clean

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun / adjectival noun:

• frank; open-hearted; plain; simple; light

adverb / ~と adverb:

• completely; entirely

adverb:

• not in the least (with neg. verb); not at all

adjectival noun:

• nothing at all; completely useless; hopeless; awful

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• absence; being away from home

noun / ~する noun:

• house-sitting; house-sitter

noun:

• being left unattended to (of one's studies, etc.); neglecting - usu. as お留守になる

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• (just) out of curiosity; (just) in order to satisfy one's curiosity; aimed chiefly at amusing; sensational (e.g. magazine) - four character idiom

noun:

• conventions to be followed in composing Japanese poetry; phraseology; diction ➜ 句形
• rules of grammar and syntax when reading kanbun in Japanese ➜ 句形

noun / ~の noun:

• peep; peeping

noun:

• peep show; device with lens mounted on a stand or in a box to view enlarged pictures - abbreviation ➜ 覗き機関

noun:

• New Year's visit to a shrine or temple which lies in a favorable (favourable) or lucky direction

noun / adjectival noun:

• honest to a fault; one's only strength being his (her) honesty; having no redeeming feature except for being honest - four character idiom

noun:

• winding a replacement thread, wire, etc.
• changing from an overarm to an underarm grip on one's opponent's belt - Sumo term

expression:

• don't judge a book by its cover; a mountain is not to be honoured just because it is high [literal] - proverb

expression:

• there is no need to; it is fine if you don't; unnecessary - after a verb
• does not match; out of reach of - after a noun

noun:

• nitrogen mustard (chemical compound related to mustard gas, used as a chemical weapon or an anticarcinogen)

expression:

• zip it (when used to others); I'll shut up (when used by oneself); button (one's) lips - colloquialism ➜ チャック

noun:

• autotomy; self amputation; act of cutting off a part of one's own body in order to escape a predator

expression:

• first verse of a nursery rhyme sung by children on cold days (similar to "It's Raining, It's Pouring")

noun:

• children's game in which three or more stand back-to-back in a circle and jostle ➜ 押し競べ【おしくらべ】

noun:

• fire alarm ringing continuously to warn that a fire is extremely near ➜ 擦り半
• sound as produced by this alarm

noun:

• fire alarm ringing continuously to warn that a fire is extremely near ➜ 擦り半鐘
• sound as produced by this alarm

noun / ~の noun:

• having leaves and branches loaded with snow

noun:

• snow guard (to prevent snow from sliding off of a roof); snow stop ➜ 雪止め

noun:

• wooden rods (square, used in a pair) used in Kansai-area rakugo (e.g. to mark scene changes); small clapper

noun:

• child's seat which attaches to a table for eating - From English "table chair"

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• crushed flat; flattened; squashed; flat-topped - onomatopoeia

noun:

• flat-chested girl - colloquialism - manga slang
• sound of a sticky rice cake sticking to something - onomatopoeia

noun:

• cylindrical box used to measure rice
• shape for forming rice
• single serving of rice (esp. as prison food) - abbreviation ➜ 物相飯

noun:

• no wait state memory (memory the CPU can access without requiring wait states) - abbreviation - IT term
• instant (e.g. for display speed of text in computer games) - From English "no wait"

expression:

• when it becomes; when it comes to