noun:

• spot check; snap inspection; surprise test ➜ 抜き打ち

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to step over; to step across; to stride over; to stride across; to cross
• to stretch over; to span; to bridge; to saddle; to straddle

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to tread on thin ice; to go out on a limb; to walk a tightrope; to take risks; to cross a dangerous bridge [literal]

noun:

• scramble intersection; pedestrian scramble; X-crossing; diagonal crossing; intersection allowing pedestrians to cross simultaneously in any direction

noun:

• question (e.g. on a test); problem
• problem (e.g. societal, political); question; issue; subject (e.g. of research); case; matter
• question (i.e. doubt)
• public discussion; controversy
• trouble; problem; inconvenience; difficulty

noun:

• zazen (seated Zen meditation, usu. in a cross-legged position) - Buddhism term

noun:

• Pap smear (test)

noun:

• Red Crystal (politically and religiously neutral emblem used by the International Committee of the Red Cross)

noun:

• combined race (skiing event with cross country and ski jumping)

noun:

• Red Crystal (politically and religiously neutral emblem used by the International Committee of the Red Cross) ➜ 赤菱

noun:

• six coins placed in a casket (said to be to pay the fare to cross the River Sanzu) ➜ 三途の川

noun / ~する noun:

• positive reaction (to medical test)

noun:

• validation (test) - IT term

noun:

• sweetie (sweet green-skinned citrus; cross between a grapefruit and a pomelo); oroblanco

noun:

• benchmark (test) - IT term

noun:

• Japanese bondage torture (bound victim sits cross-legged with their arms tied behind them, and the rope is tightened until their ankles touch their neck)

noun:

• asbestos coated wire mesh (was used in schools as test equipment)

noun:

• off-road vehicle (from cross-country) - abbreviation ➜ クロスカントリー

noun:

• color bars (television test pattern); colour bars

noun:

• Tobin tax (on cross-border currency trading)

noun:

• lowest ranking; worst (e.g. in a test) ➜ びり

noun:

• falling weight; drop-weight (e.g. test, impact strength) - Engineering term

noun:

• (getting a) perfect score; scoring 100; grading students on a scale of one hundred; doing perfectly (in a test); leaving nothing to be desired - four character idiom

noun:

• sickle
• sickle-and-chain (weapon) - abbreviation ➜ 鎖鎌
• spear with curved cross-blades - abbreviation ➜ 鎌槍
• gooseneck tenon and mortise joint - abbreviation ➜ 鎌継
• noisiness - archaism
• part of a fish around the gills - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• seam of joined boards
• cross grain (of wood)
• thick card made from several sheets of washi paper - abbreviation ➜ 板目紙