noun:

• new single (by a recording artist)
• person of marriageable age who remains single (e.g. to focus on their career) - From English

noun:

• (one's) view on work; (one's) opinion on work-life balance

noun:

• the Big Dipper (asterism); the Plough; the Plow - Astronomy term ➜ 北斗七星
• the seven luminaries (sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) - Astronomy term ➜ 七曜

noun:

• longing for someone or something; waiting for someone of great talent to arrive; stretching one's neck and standing on tiptoes [literal] - four character idiom

expression:

• a wise retainer chooses a great lord to serve; a wise bird chooses a good tree in which to roost [literal] - proverb

adverb / ~する noun:

• vexed; irritated; fretful; in ill humour; in ill humor; in a temper - onomatopoeia
• shaggy; bushy; ragged; rugged - onomatopoeia

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to go to and from (a place); to go back and forth between; to run between (e.g. bus, train, etc.); to ply between
• to go to (school, work, etc.); to attend; to commute; to frequent
• to circulate (e.g. blood, electricity); to be communicated (e.g. thought) ➜ 血が通う・心が通う
• to resemble

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

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be resurrected; to be resuscitated; to be rehabilitated; to be revived; to be refreshed; to be restored
• to be recalled (e.g. memories); to be brought back

expression:

• the blind leading the blind; if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch - proverb

~と adverb / noun:

• (fighting) in a confused mass; (falling) in swirls; (falling) in whirls

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to wake; to wake up
• to become sober; to sober up; to regain consciousness (e.g. after anaesthesia)
• to come to one's senses; to be disillusioned

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to suck up; to pump up; to draw up; to absorb; to extract
• to siphon off (profits, etc.); to exploit
• to take up others' opinions, hopes, etc.

noun:

• deviation-value-oriented education; education focussed on test results; education that stresses studying and passing exams to raise one's ranking; academic cramming

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to prune; to trim; to cut back; to clip
• to reap (a crop) and put into storage; to harvest
• to prune (a manuscript); to cut down

noun:

• difference in grades (e.g. in go, shoji, etc.)
• difference in level (e.g. road, footpath); ramp; steps; bump (in road)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be able to receive; to be able to take; to be able to accept - humble language ➜ 貰える
• to be able to eat; to be able to drink - humble language ➜ 頂く
• to be acceptable; to be satisfactory ➜ 頂けない【いただけない】

godan ~う verb:

• to say enough (as much as required); to say plenty
• to say well; to say cleverly; to say elegantly
• to say often; to say frequently
• to say without shame; to say impudently - oft. as an admonition in the form of よく言うよ

noun:

• shot (in films)
• shot (of alcohol)
• hitting a ball (e.g. in tennis)

noun / ~する noun:

• shoot (in basketball)

noun:

• style of polite speech in Japanese (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu")

noun:

• style of polite speech in Japanese (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu") ➜ です体

noun:

• trying to reach above one's station and failing; trying to accomplish something beyond one's abilities and failing; monkey trying to catch the moon (and drowning) [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• study of the English language as a means to acquire Western knowledge (esp. after the end of Japan's period of isolation)
• English literature; British studies

noun:

• technique of holding one's opponent's arm to prevent him from getting a hold on one's belt - Sumo term

noun / ~する noun:

• success in life; getting ahead; successful career; promotion; climbing the corporate ladder; eminence