noun / ~する noun:

• seeing something that isn't actually there; hallucination; mistaking for something or someone else
• pretending not to see; looking the other way; turning a blind eye ➜ 見ぬふり【みぬふり】
• looking upwards ➜ 上目【うわめ】

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to take each other's hands; to clasp (hands)
• to compete; to scramble for
• to pay attention (to someone); to respond

noun:

• weasel (esp. the Japanese weasel, Mustela itatsi)
• mustelid (any other member of the weasel family, incl. badgers, martens, minks, ferrets, otters, polecats, stoats, skunks, etc.)

noun:

• drive; trip by car; driving

~する noun / intransitive verb:

• to (go for a) drive; to go on a trip by car

~する noun / transitive:

• to drive (e.g. a car)
• to drive (innovation, change, etc.); to propel

noun:

• drive - IT term

adjectival noun / noun:

• deeply in love with; madly in love with; heads over heels in love with; to be crazy about

noun / ~する noun:

• mounting (animal behaviour)
• putting somebody down (esp. in an underhanded way) in an attempt to appear superior; putting somebody in their place

noun:

• shutting oneself in (one's room, etc.)
• barricading oneself in (a fort, etc.) while being besieged; holing up (in a building)

noun:

• cheese ➜ 乾酪
• tee (piping); T-joint

interjection:

• cheese (expression used when taking a photograph) - usu. as はい、チーズ

noun / ~する noun:

• appointment (to a position, job, etc.); being used for a role; promotion

noun:

• old kana orthography (used before 1946 reform); historical kana ortography ➜ 歴史的仮名遣い・新仮名遣い

noun / ~する noun:

• speech; utterance; starting to speak

noun:

• word used to start a sentence - e.g. さて, いざ, それ

noun:

• coarse, low-grade tea
• tea (often used when offering someone a cup) - humble language

noun:

• infusion of kudzu, cinnamon, etc., used as an antifebrile, for hangovers, etc.

interjection:

• Listen! (used to get someone's attention) - colloquialism

expression:

• You see ...; Mind you ...; Remember ... - colloquialism

noun:

• ambrosia (drink conferring immortality)
• drink used as an offering (to the gods)

noun:

• drinking spring water; taking the waters; onsen water used for medical treatment

noun:

• actual printing stock; paper stock used for a final print run

noun:

• obtaining the respective numbers of cranes and tortoises from the total of their heads and legs; calculating the values of two unknown quantities from their unit total and the total of one of their attributes

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to engage in a bloody feud; to have a family quarrel; to quarrel with one's own flesh and blood; to wash blood for blood [literal] - idiom

noun:

• claws and fangs; claws and tusks
• clutches; devious design; means of causing harm; weapon
• pawn; stooge; cat's-paw
• right-hand man

expression:

• enter through the narrow gate (for wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction); enter ye in at the strait gate - from Matthew 7:13 - proverb

noun:

• scenic beauty of mountains and streams; fresh and clear beauty of nature's splendor - four character idiom

noun:

• China and foreign countries (from the perspective of China); civilized land and uncivilized land

ichidan verb:

• to use up all of one's energy and willpower; to be exhausted (and have no will to go on)

adverb:

• increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less