noun:

• making from scratch (esp. in model-making and information systems); full scratch building - From English "full scratch"

noun:

• downshift; changing from upper to lower case letters
• downshifting; living a simpler life
• downshifting (on a vehicle) - rare term ➜ シフトダウン

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• year by year; annually; every year; from year to year

adverb / noun:

• annually; every year; year in year out; from year to year - four character idiom

noun:

• rice from an early harvest; early rice ➜ 遅場米

noun:

• contamination noise; noise from contamination

noun:

• snow melting
• water from melting snow

noun:

• fish fertilizer; fertilizer made from fish scraps

noun:

• rice from a late harvest; late rice ➜ 早場米

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to finish off; to ensure (something) is dead; to deliver the coup de grace
• to put an end to; to deliver the final blow
• to be the best for A - as ＡはＢに止めを刺す

noun:

• toll-free number - From English "free dial"
• free dial (e.g. device or combination lock that can be set to any number)

noun:

• pivot hinge (using extensions on the top & bottom of a door that fit into cavities in the frame)
• sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut) ➜ 猿

noun:

• tricolored monitor (Varanus yuwonoi, species of carnivorous monitor lizard from Halmahera Island in North Maluku, Indonesia); Moluccan black-backed monitor

expression:

• there's nothing that doesn't exist; there's nothing we (I, he, she, etc.) don't have

expression / adjective:

• nonexistent; not in one's possession - emphatic form of 無い ➜ 無い

noun:

• exception; exclusion

~する noun:

• to omit; to disallow (e.g. in a sport after a rule is broken); to reject (e.g. faulty product); to eject; to expel; to throw out

noun:

• highway (esp. one existing from the Edo period); main road
• highway (e.g. to success); path (to becoming ...) ➜ 出世街道【しゅっせかいどう】

noun:

• bright light
• hope; bright future
• light emanating from a buddha or bodhisattva, symbolizing their wisdom and compassion - Buddhism term

noun:

• countryside people (in town); visitor from the country; out-of-towner; country bumpkin (visiting the big city); yokel

noun:

• demon of the sixth heaven in the realm of desire who tries to prevent people from doing good - Buddhism term ➜ 四魔

noun:

• Muromachi-period texts or annotations of texts used in Zen lectures
• extracting from or excerpting (a classic)

noun:

• official injury exemption system; system for exempting players injured in an official match from pay reduction or demotion - Sports term

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to become empty (hollow)
• to relax from a tense situation into a vacant or absent minded state

noun:

• nationally protected chicken breed; free-range local traditional pedigree chicken; chicken meat from same
• locally raised chicken ［地鳥］

noun:

• disk-shaped pad for pressing paper when making a print from a wood block; rubbing pad; baren

noun:

• edict from a senior official in government or military which had the status of a binding official document