noun:

• dried sardines (held together by a bamboo skewer or string piercing the eye sockets)

noun:

• order; ordering
• beginning; start
• foreword; preface; introduction ➜ 序詞
• opening of a song (in gagaku or noh) ➜ 序破急

noun:

• food covered in a thick starchy sauce (usu. made of kuzu or katakuriko flour) - Food term ➜ 餡

noun:

• public transmission rights (e.g. putting copyrightable material on the WWW or an FTP server)

noun:

• undulating melodic ornamentation or embellishment, esp. in folk and popular songs
• unit of timber measurement

noun:

• sommelier (sommeliere); waiter or waitress who manages and is an expert on wine - From French

noun:

• address (e.g. opening or closing remarks); speech; words
• ci (Chinese literary form)
• ancillary word ➜ 詞

expression:

• indication that a page or site may be linked without restriction - From English "link free"

noun:

• (of a website) being delisted or censored by the Google search engine

noun:

• off-flavor; bitterness or other unpleasant taste that detracts from the flavour of a drink

noun / ~する noun:

• death due to shock (triggered by blood loss, heart failure or other causes)

noun:

• (railway, bus, highway) route designed or designated to meet a specific problem
• countermeasure program (policy)

noun:

• group - Chemistry term ➜ 官能基
• (free) radical ➜ 遊離基

counter:

• counter for installed or mounted objects (e.g. stone lanterns, gravestones, satellites)

noun:

• locomotor ataxia; difficulty walking or speaking (due to alcoholism, a stroke, etc.); someone with this problem - colloquialism - sensitive

noun / ~する noun:

• popping bubble-wrap (e.g. for fun or as a stress relief technique) ➜ ぷちぷち

noun:

• uprooted person; free spirit; something or someone who has lost (cultural, geographical, family, etc.) roots - From French "deracine"

noun / suffix noun:

• nature (of a person or thing)
• that which does not change according to external influences - Buddhism term

noun:

• original (that was parodied or acted as an inspiration for something else, etc.) ➜ ねた

noun:

• sharing a room, flat, apartment, or house (with roommates, flatmates, etc.) - From English "room share"

noun / ~する noun:

• impressed (glued) gold or silver foil on traditional Japanese fabric
• type of noh costume

noun:

• van or truck with a display, retail, etc. facility; mobile showroom - From English "caravan car"

noun:

• waiting (e.g. at the stage door) for performers or celebrities to arrive - slang ➜ 出待ち

interjection:

• stone the crows; blow me down; oops; uh oh; expression of annoyed surprise or shock

noun:

• flour made from parched rice or barley (can be mixed in hot water and drunk)

noun:

• green flash (optical phenomenon occurring shortly after sunset or before sunrise)