noun:

• townscape; street (of stores and houses); (look of) stores and houses on street

noun / ~の noun:

• mail order; mail-order sales; shop-by-mail service; on-line shopping service (with delivery by mail)

noun:

• direction; way - also ほう
• person; lady; gentleman - honorific language

noun / suffix noun:

• method of; manner of; way of

suffix noun:

• care of ...
• person in charge of ... - also がた
• side (e.g. "on my mother's side") - also がた

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• crisp (not moist or juicy); crunchy; flaky (as in pastry) - onomatopoeia
• crunching sound (of walking on snow, frost, sand, etc.) - onomatopoeia
• doing skillfully and efficiently; doing quickly; proceeding smoothly - onomatopoeia
• sound of pouring liquid - onomatopoeia - archaism
• speaking clearly - onomatopoeia - archaism

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to spring; to bound; to bounce
• to be stimulated; to be encouraged; to get lively

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to treat oneself to; to splurge on

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to breathe hard; to pant; to be out of breath ➜ 息が弾む【いきがはずむ】

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to read a large number (of); to read widely; to read everything that one can lay one's hands on (usu. of specific type, genre)

noun:

• bibliography (i.e. the study of books)
• bibliology (i.e. the study of books, booklore and bibliography)

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to board; to embark on; to get into (a car); to man (a ship); to help (someone) into
• to march into; to enter

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to fuss over; to be particular about
• to be obsessive about; to be fixated on
• to obstruct; to hinder

noun / ~する noun:

• carrying out one's words; being as good as one's word; making good on one's promise - four character idiom

noun:

• side dish; okazu; side dish (meat, fish, pickles, etc.) accompanying the rice in a typical Japanese meal
• food for thought (esp. in the context of conversation, or material for assisting arousal during masturbation) ［おかず・オカズ］ - sometimes オガズ
• fill; fill-in (drumming)

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to tear; to rip up ［裂く］
• to cut up; to cleave; to cut open (esp. the abdomen)
• to forcibly separate (e.g. two lovers) ［裂く］
• to spare (time, money, etc.); to use part of something ［割く］
• to have a tattoo in the corner of one's eye - archaism ➜ 黥く

noun:

• breaking up a match on doctor's orders (in boxing, etc.) - From English "doctor stop"
• being ordered by one's doctor to give up such habits as drinking, smoking, overeating, etc.

noun:

• steaming basket; wooden frame holder with reed base used to steam food over a pot - 井籠 (rarely 井篭) refers to a square basket
• soba served on a small wickerwork tray; wickerwork tray (for serving soba)

noun:

• ukiyo-e print produced with various shades of indigo (and sometimes small amounts of vermilion or yellow)
• staining a pattern on fabric or paper by rubbing it with indigo leaves

expression:

• like chalk and cheese (superficially similar, but completely different) (the moon and a turtle shell are both round, but they are otherwise completely different); like day and night; like the difference between heaven and hell

expression:

• a day in life is better than a thousand days in the afterlife; better one day in this world than a thousand in the next - proverb

noun:

• model; dummy; mock-up
• model (profession); fashion model
• model (of a car, etc.); make; version
• model; example; template; standard
• model (in model theory); theory
• person a fictional character was modeled on; inspiration

noun / ~の noun:

• a line; a streak; a stripe; a ray (of light); a wisp (of smoke)

noun:

• one item (in an itemized form); one clause; one passage (in a book)
• one matter (affair, event, case, incident)
• the same logic; the same reason - archaism

expression:

• it is darkest under the lamp post; it's hard to see what is under your nose; go abroad to hear of home; you must go into the country to hear what news at London - proverb

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to leave one's footprints; to leave one's mark on; to leave a message (behind)

noun:

• being kept standing (without doing anything); remaining on one's feet
• beggar; tramp
• prostitute; streetwalker
• tout (for a hostess bar)
• street drug pusher
• day laborer standing and waiting for a job.

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to invite; to ask
• to beckon; to wave someone in; to gesture to
• to call in; to send for; to summon
• to bring on oneself; to cause; to incur; to lead to; to result in

noun:

• free use

~する noun:

• to use freely; to make free use of; to have good command (e.g. of a language)
• to drive someone on

godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:

• to become covered in moss; to be moss-covered; to have moss growing on itself; to become aged (e.g. building, stone)