noun:

• civil service competitive examination for some positions in the public education system in France - From French "agregation"

expression:

• nowhere in sight; seems to be no prospect; up in the air - usu. as ～のめどが立たない, etc. ➜ めどが立つ【めどがたつ】

expression:

• nowhere in sight; seems to be no prospect; up in the air - usu. as ～のめどが立たず, etc. ➜ めどが立つ【めどがたつ】・めどが立たない

noun:

• sample; example; specimen
• display model (e.g. plastic food models used by restaurants) ➜ 食品サンプル

noun:

• airs; pretensions; show; ostentation; display; appearance; vanity; charm ➜ 見栄を張る【みえをはる】

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to lie on top of one another; to be in a heap

noun:

• young person
• servant; errand boy in a samurai family
• person of lowly status

adjective:

• black with hints of blue (as in a bruise); bluish black

noun:

• school for training bachelor girls in homemaking arts; (a type of) finishing school - four character idiom

noun:

• simmering after steaming - Food term
• simmering (in a small amount of broth); smothering; estouffade - Food term

noun:

• karma mandala (in Shingon); three-dimensional mandala with a sculpture of each deity - Buddhism term ➜ 四種曼荼羅【ししゅまんだら】

noun / ~する noun:

• throwing into; inserting; depositing
• investment; putting in (personnel, etc.)
• release of a product
• making (an electrical circuit)

noun:

• Japanese puppet theatre in which recited narrative and dialog is accompanied by a shamisen (forerunner of bunraku) ➜ 浄瑠璃・文楽

noun / ~する noun:

• scattering (e.g. of islands, Go pieces, etc., often in a harmonious balance); dispersal; constellation; irregular spread - archaism - obscure term

noun:

• charm; talisman; amulet
• tally
• sign; mark; note

counter:

• fu; unit used in calculation of a hand's score - Mahjong term

noun:

• woman peddler in Kyoto from Ohara (typically with a bundle of sticks, etc. on her head)

noun:

• (wrestling) ring - Sumo term
• forum (e.g. for discussion)
• sandbag; gabion

noun:

• melodic ring tone ➜ 着メロ【ちゃくメロ】

noun:

• token-ring network - IT term

noun / ~する noun:

• promise; agreement; arrangement; one's word; contract; pact; appointment; engagement; date - honorific language - humble language ➜ 約束

noun / ~の noun:

• something expected or predictable (e.g. running gag); typical or clichéd development (in a story); something considered obligatory or guaranteed (in a certain situation)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to adopt (method, proposal, etc.); to take (measure, course of action, etc.); to decide on
• to pick (e.g. flowers); to gather (e.g. mushrooms); to catch (e.g. insects)
• to extract (e.g. juice); to take (e.g. a sample)
• to assume (an attitude)
• to take on (workers, students); to employ; to hire
• to draw in (e.g. water); to let in (e.g. light from a window)

noun:

• length of a sleeve (of Western clothing)
• height of a sleeve (of traditional Japanese clothing)

noun:

• the matter in question; the said problem

noun:

• the market trend in the near future - four character idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to coquet (of a woman); to entice a customer (of a prostitute)
• to flatter; to butter up