expression:

• if you know your enemy and know yourself, in a hundred battles you will never be defeated; know your enemy - from Sun Tzu's The Art of War - proverb

noun:

• Forgive me for dispensing with the preliminaries, but I hasten to inform you that... - formal salutation for a brief letter

noun:

• food (meat, fish, vegetables, etc.) cooked separately but served together on one dish

noun:

• grilled miso mixed with chili peppers ➜ 焼き味噌
• person who acts tough but is actually timid ➜ よわみそ

noun:

• person who is employed but has nothing to do at their company ➜ ＮＥＥＴ

noun:

• Shiroganese; housewife, esp. from up-market Shirogane, who does nothing but shop, dine out, etc. - slang

noun / ~する noun:

• reading but not responding to a text message (in the chat application LINE) - colloquialism ➜ スルー

noun / expression:

• someone (unspecified, but someone in particular); a certain person

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to hold all the while; to talk about nothing but

expression:

• being a member of staff but useless as a worker

noun / ~する noun:

• chewy; springy; al dente - onomatopoeia
• slowly but steadily
• masturbation; fap fap

~の noun / adverb:

• practical; actual; de facto; in essence; in all but name

particle:

• than
• from; out of; since; at; on
• except; but; other than

adverb:

• more

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to do nothing but; to spend all one's time doing

expression:

• little by little (recovering after an illness); slowly but surely

noun:

• main dish (e.g. meat, fish, but not rice); principal dish ➜ メインディッシュ

noun:

• homophone; word with the same pronunciation and similar meaning as another but a different written form

noun:

• orthographical variants; words with the same pronunciation and meaning, but different written forms; spelling inconsistency

adjectival noun / noun:

• unreasonable; unnatural; unjustifiable
• impossible

adjectival noun / noun / ~する noun:

• forcible; forced; compulsory - often as 無理に

adjectival noun:

• excessive (work, etc.); immoderate

~する noun:

• to work too hard; to try too hard

interjection:

• no way; not a chance; never; dream on - colloquialism

~の noun:

• irrational - Mathematics term

noun:

• young child; toddler
• child over 1 but not yet of school age - Law term

noun:

• Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii) - obscure term
• any thin, but flexible bamboo

noun:

• aureole (of a Buddhist statue; surrounding the body but not the head); aureola

noun:

• employee of an association, society, etc. (but not of government or a corporation)

expression:

• not completely unthinkable; possible, but not at all likely - abbr. of 微粒子レベルで存在している - slang

expression:

• life is but a dream; this too shall pass; everything is transient - proverb ➜ 浮世