godan ~ぶ verb / transitive:

• to call out (to); to call; to invoke
• to summon (a doctor, etc.)
• to invite
• to designate; to name; to brand
• to garner (support, etc.); to gather
• to take as one's wife - archaism ➜ 娶る

expression:

• better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion; better be first in a village than second at Rome; better to be the mouth of a chicken than the rear end of a cow [literal] - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• setting oneself free from the life of a white-collar worker; quitting a job as a salaryman and launching an independent business ➜ サラ

noun:

• working the corners; hitting the corners of the plate; pitcher's technique of throwing a ball aiming at the edge of the strike zone - Baseball term - From English "corner work"
• cornering skill (skating, driving, etc.)

adverb:

• in itself; as it is; in its own way; as suits the occasion ➜ 形【なり】
• within its capacity; within limitations

expression:

• if you don't mind; if you like; if you feel up for it; if you're interested

noun:

• endpaper (of a book); end-paper
• facing (material sewn on the inside edge of a garment)
• looking back; triumphing over (a rival) ➜ 見返す

noun:

• one's registered domicile (as recorded in the family register); one's legal domicile (as opposed to where one lives) ➜ 戸籍【こせき】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to droop (e.g. ears of grain)
• to bow one's head; to hang one's head

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun / adverbial noun:

• a lot; lots; plenty; many; a large number; much; a great deal; a good deal
• enough; sufficient

suffix noun:

• enough; too many; too much - after a noun; usu. read as だくさん ➜ 沢山【だくさん】

noun:

• a kick; mounting a bar with a kick

noun / ~する noun:

• playing with something with one's fingers
• searching with one's fingers (e.g. in the dark)

noun:

• sweet rocket (Hesperis matronalis); dame's rocket; dame's violet; damask violet
• Chinese violet cress (Orychophragmus violaceus) ➜ 大紫羅欄花【オオアラセイトウ】

expression / adverb:

• or perhaps I should say; or more precisely; or, how should I put it; or rather ➜ ってゆうか

expression:

• I wish I had ...; I should have ...; it would have been better if I had ... - usu. verb-て...

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to break through (e.g. one's doubts); to become unbound by (e.g. the past); to allay (e.g. anger)
• to burst (e.g. a boil)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be indicated as the winner of a bout by the raising of the referee's fan - Sumo term
• to be declared the winner - idiom

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to exhaust one's vocabulary (in trying to persuade somebody or explain something, etc.); to run out of words; to be verbose; to cajole; to talk someone's head off

noun / suffix noun:

• part; segment; share; ration ➜ 分の
• rate
• degree; one's lot; one's status; relation; duty; kind; lot ➜ 身分

suffix noun:

• relationship; connection; correspondence

noun / suffix noun:

• in proportion to; just as much as

expression:

• fighting with one's back to the wall; having burnt one's bridges; last stand; from strategy of general Han Xin in the Battle of Jingxing - idiom

expression / adjective:

• being painfully-true (e.g. reprimand); making one's ears burn; striking home (e.g. remark) - idiom
• having an earache; feeling pain in one's ear

noun:

• lucky-number request (the person who is the Nth visitor to a web site gets to make a request, e.g. for a custom drawing, where N is a special number like 10000) - from キリ番 and リクエスト - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ キリ番・リクエスト

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hang (a curtain); to droop (a tail); to lower (a blind)

noun / ~する noun:

• begging for one's life; pleading for one's life

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to wear one's hair up; to arrange one's hair