godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be pulled in (fish); to be landed ➜ つり上がる

noun:

• flash; flashlight; flashbulb
• flush (poker hand)
• very short scene in a film or TV show - From English "flash"
• newsflash ➜ ニュースフラッシュ
• (Adobe) Flash (animation software)

noun / ~の noun:

• leader
• reader; reading book
• reader (i.e. someone who reads)

noun:

• microreader - abbreviation ➜ マイクロリーダー
• dotted line (in printing); leaders; ellipsis mark ➜ 点線【てんせん】

noun:

• policeman; official in charge of imprisoning offenders - archaism
• art of defeating (and capturing) an opponent with one's bare hands - Martial Arts term

noun:

• scroll; rolled book; makimono - usu. 巻(き)物
• scarf; muffler; stole - usu. 巻きもの
• sushi made rolled in nori seaweed with a core of filling - usu. 巻きもの ➜ 巻き寿司【まきずし】

noun:

• dormitory; dorm; residence hall; student residence ➜ 寮【りょう】・学生寮【がくせいりょう】
• multi-bed room shared with unrelated travelers (e.g. in inexpensive guesthouse)

noun:

• flag

suffix:

• tag indicating a future role or status for a character in anime, games, etc. (e.g. death, love, survival) - slang

noun:

• pilloried criminal exposed to public view; public scorn or humiliation; person shamed in front of others

noun:

• boy or doll dressed in ancient Chinese clothes
• hairstyle inspired by such a doll (esp. for female children) (Edo period)

noun:

• dispel (esp. magic or potion used to return one's character to normal status in an RPG, etc.)

adjectival noun / noun:

• covering; filled in; gapless; all over - usu. as べたに

prefix noun:

• complete; total - before a noun

adjectival noun:

• cliched; clichéd; hackneyed; corny; predictable - colloquialism

~の noun:

• plaintext - IT term

noun:

• solid printing; solid typesetting - abbreviation ➜ べた組み
• contact print - abbreviation ➜ べた焼き

noun:

• getting free admission on the strength of one's name; being let in somewhere because one is recognized

noun:

• magnet school (public school offering special instruction in order to attract a more diverse student body)

noun:

• someone from one's own province (China) ➜ 外省人
• someone whose ancestors had lived in Taiwan before the Kuomintang related immigration wave ➜ 外省人

noun:

• Chiloscyllium (genus of carpet sharks or bamboo sharks in the family Hemiscylliidae with long snouts and subterminal nostrils)

noun:

• scoophead (Sphyrna media, species of little-known hammerhead shark found in tropical waters of the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific)

noun:

• finelined surgeonfish (Acanthurus grammoptilus, species of Western Pacific tang found in the Philippines, Indonesia and north-western Australia)

noun:

• wooden board used on the ridge-ends of a roof instead of an onigawara tile (sometimes covered in copper sheeting) ➜ 鬼瓦

noun:

• event where schoolchildren wash their inkstones, brushes and desks the night before Tanabata to pray for success in their studies - obscure term ➜ 七夕

noun:

• sailing windward
• land division in the Ryukyu Kingdom equivalent to modern prefectures (but the size of cities or towns) - obsolete term ➜ 村

noun:

• expulsion; dismissal; ejection; eviction
• drum beat at the end of a day's performance (in the theatre, sumo, etc.)

noun:

• mix of peanuts and spicy baked or fried mochi chips in the shape of kaki (Japanese persimmon) seeds - abbreviation ➜ 柿の種【かきのたね】・ピーナッツ・柿ピー【かきピー】

noun:

• mix of peanuts and spicy baked or fried mochi chips in the shape of kaki (Japanese persimmon) seeds - abbreviation ➜ 柿の種【かきのたね】・ピーナッツ・柿ピー【かきピー】・ピー柿【ピーかき】

noun:

• short arched (traditionally bamboo) fence around walls of traditional townhouses, esp. in Kyoto (protects lower walls from fouling or damage)

noun:

• obstruction markings (red or yellow and white markings on structures taller than 60 meters in accordance with Japanese aviation law)