noun / ~する noun:

• favourite poem or song; favorite poem or song
• lover of poetry and song

noun:

• original and copy (of a document)
• principal and vice; chief and vice-chief

noun:

• beginning-of-volume label; volume (header) label; volume header - IT term

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be sensitive to smoke; to be uncomfortable because of smoke ➜ 煙たがる【けむたがる】

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get fed up with; to get sick of; to become disgusted with

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to run out of breath; to get breathless; to get puffed (out)

adjectival noun:

• important; serious; crucial
• valuable; precious

noun:

• serious matter; major incident; matter of grave concern; crisis ➜ 大事【おおごと】
• great undertaking; great enterprise; great thing

adjectival noun:

• safe; OK - Tochigi dialect ➜ だいじょうぶ

noun:

• using one's chopsticks to find a food one likes by rummaging in one's dish, pot, etc. (a breach of etiquette)

noun:

• mutual mourning; when one is in mourning, one doesn not make condolence calls or offers of help to others in mourning

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to banter; to make fun of; to jeer at
• to cool; to refrigerate
• to window-shop; to look at without buying

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to awaken; to arouse from sleep
• to bring to one's senses; to disabuse (someone of)
• to sober up
• to dampen; to throw a damper on; to spoil ［醒ます］ ➜ 冷ます【さます】

noun / suffix noun / ~する noun:

• increasing - From English "up"

noun / ~する noun:

• upload - abbreviation ➜ アップロード

noun:

• close-up - abbreviation ➜ クローズアップ

noun / ~する noun:

• finishing shooting (of a film, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ クランクアップ

noun:

• upswept hairstyle - abbreviation ➜ アップスタイル
• being up (i.e. leading in sports)
• warming up - abbreviation ➜ ウオーミングアップ

suffix noun:

• being over; being finished

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to put to use; to make use of; to turn to account

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be elegant (usu. of a woman); to be graceful; to be refined
• to become well-experienced; to mature

adverb / ~と adverb:

• walking on frost; crunching (e.g. on gravel) - onomatopoeia
• lots of coins or jewels - onomatopoeia
• cutting into large pieces; loosely weaving - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun:

• large (pieces, stitches, sand grains, etc.) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• close (e.g. of business); leaving (e.g. school); retiring ➜ 引け時【ひけどき】
• being outdone; compare unfavourably (with) ➜ 引けを取る【ひけをとる】
• closing price (stockmarket) - abbreviation ➜ 引け値
• sink mark (casting, moulding); shrink mark - esp. ヒケ

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to put on a moderate amount of lean or firm weight; to gain healthy weight (e.g. from muscle); to become overweight as opposed to obese

noun:

• consumption of goods and services by young working adults who live at home, with their basic living expenses covered by their parents; nest-dweller consumption [literal]

noun:

• anonymous scholarship system for orphans whose parents have been killed in traffic accidents (from Daddy-Long-Legs, a 1912 novel by Jean Webster) ➜ 大蚊
• harvestman; daddy longlegs (arachnid of order Opiliones)

expression / noun / ~の noun:

• (something) not coming together (as one had hoped or expected); unfortunate turn of events; unexpected turn; (a) crossbill's beak (which has differently shaped upper and lower parts) [literal] - often as ～の食い違い (with the same meaning) - idiom ➜ 交喙

noun / ~の noun:

• remainder; remnant; rest; balance; surplus; remains (of a meal); leftovers ［あまり］

adverb:

• not very; not much - with neg. sentence
• too much; excessively; overly - esp. as あまりに(も) ➜ あまりに・の余り【のあまり】

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• extreme; great; severe; tremendous; terrible

suffix noun:

• more than; over ［あまり］

noun / suffix noun:

• child
• young (animal) ➜ 仔【こ】
• young woman; young geisha - also 娘
• offshoot
• interest ➜ 元も子もない
• new shares - abbreviation ➜ 子株

noun:

• player who is not a dealer (in cards, mahjong, etc.) ➜ 親【おや】

noun / suffix noun:

• bird egg - archaism

suffix noun:

• -er (often of young women) - after a noun or -masu stem

noun / ~する noun:

• shift away from manufacturing to an information and service-based economy - Economics term
• softening
• release (e.g. of a movie) on home video (e.g. DVD, BD, VHS)

noun:

• expanded system of guilt by association in Japanese election law, which stipulates that an elected official may lose his position if someone in his campaign commits a crime ➜ 連座制

noun / ~する noun / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• targetting; aiming at a specific target; pinpointing

noun / ~する noun:

• selective hitting; swinging only at certain types of pitches - Baseball term
• having no choice in a move (e.g. mahjong, go, etc.)