noun / ~する noun:

• electric short-circuit
• drawing a hasty inference between two events; jumping to a quick conclusion; dealing with matters quickly and carelessly

noun:

• appearance; look; countenance
• a 'seeming' that fortune-tellers relate to one's fortune ➜ 女難の相
• aspect - Linguistics term
• phase (e.g. solid, liquid and gaseous) - Physics term

noun:

• slotted dome cast iron grill for preparing the Genghis Khan dish
• Japanese mutton and vegetable dish ➜ ジンギス汗料理

noun:

• kitchen with a small counter for eating, usu. allowing a view into the living and dining rooms - From English "counter kitchen"

noun:

• cutover; cut-over; starting new (IT) equipment; transferring from the old to a new (hardware and/or software) system - IT term

expression:

• we have piped unto you and ye have not danced; people ignoring one's invitation or effort to do something together - from Matthew 11:17 - idiom

noun:

• cloudy sky that appears when the migrating birds that stayed for winter and autumn in Japan leave to go north

noun:

• Kagutsuchi; fire deity who burned to death his mother Izanami during childbirth (and was therefore beheaded by his father Izanagi) ➜ 迦具土神

adverb / ~たる adjective:

• firmly; absolutely; flatly; resolutely; decisively; definitely

adverb:

• by far; far and away; by a long shot; hands down

adjectival noun / noun:

• strict; hidebound; inflexible; being a sticker for the rules; sticking hard and fast to the rules - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• third rank (in the Japanese court system)

noun:

• trinity (Christianity); the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

noun:

• putting the officials and bureaucrats above the people; treating the governors as more important than the governed; statism - four character idiom

expression:

• almost never; few and far between; little or nothing; hardly any; hardly anything at all; very little

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• glasses and plates being scattered about after a party or banquet; articles lying about in a jumble - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• white powder (lead carbonate) used in the past as face pigment and used in paint more recently

noun:

• correspondence theory (theory that a proposition is true if and only if it corresponds to the facts) ➜ 整合説

expression / adjectival noun:

• to be as busy as a bee; like Christmas and a birthday feast rolled into one - idiom

noun:

• lacquering technique that uses a coloured-lacquer undercoating and a transparent-lacquer topcoat

expression / noun:

• point where two ocean currents meet (e.g. a warm current and a cold current) ➜ 潮目
• attractive glance - archaism

noun:

• crab shell (often ground or crushed and used as fertilizer); crab shell meal

noun:

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

noun / suffix noun:

• fish, meat, vegetables, etc. pickled in kōji and salt; food pickled in malted rice ➜ 麹【こうじ】

noun:

• secretly slitting one's belly (and only eventually revealing one's mortal wound) (in kabuki, bunraku, etc.)

expression:

• day after day; day in and day out; every single day

noun:

• heart and soul; one's soul (heart)