noun:

• losing initiative; being forestalled ➜ 先手【せんて】
• second move (in go or shogi); moving second; person with the second move
• rear guard ➜ 後詰め

noun:

• Scopes Trial (landmark US trial on the teaching of evolution in public schools, 1925); Scopes Monkey Trial

noun:

• picture-matching (with card games, etc.); matching pictures
• picture-matching contest (popular in the Heian period); e-awase

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make someone understand their fate; to reason with; to persuade; to deliver an imperial edict (which cannot be refused) [literal] - archaism

godan ~ぶ verb / intransitive verb:

• to be blown off; to blow off; to blow away
• to vanish; to disappear

expression / ichidan verb:

• to press alcohol on someone; to urge somebody to drink; to offer alcohol to someone

expression / ichidan verb:

• to lend an ear; to hearken; to give an ear to; to listen carefully

godan ~く verb / expression:

• to turn away; to face away; to ignore
• to be uncooperative; to be unconciliatory

expression / ichidan verb:

• to speak to; to give a (something) talk to; to speak words of (something)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to give oneself to (esp. of a woman to a man); to surrender oneself to

godan ~う verb:

• to put on armour (armor); to wear armour; to arm oneself
• to wear; to cover

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to glare at; to scowl at; to glower at ➜ 睨む
• to stare intensely at; to examine carefully ➜ 睨む

adverbial noun / ~の noun:

• as a matter of fact; actually; effectively; in reality; in effect

noun:

• Shangdi (creator deity in Chinese folk religion)
• God (in Christianity)

noun / ~する noun:

• (roads) running in all directions; convenient transportation; ability in any line

noun / ~する noun:

• tossing oneself about in great pain; writhing in agony - four character idiom

noun:

• going in and out of style; changes in fashion

noun:

• beside oneself with joy; in raptures; in an ecstasy of delight - four character idiom

adverb / ~する noun:

• squelching; gurgling; bubbling

adverb:

• raking in (money); rolling in; hand over fist

noun:

• work in progress; WIP; goods in process

noun:

• sex establishment in which staff dress in costumes (schoolgirl, nurse, etc.) - abbreviation - From English "image club" ➜ イメージクラブ

prefix:

• single; simple

noun:

• singles (in tennis) - abbreviation ➜ 単試合
• winning system (as in horse racing) - abbreviation ➜ 単勝式

expression:

• the more you do (it), the... (e.g. "the more you drink, the better it tastes")

expression:

• the light comes from the East; the light rises from the East; ex oriente lux - from the Roman saying, in reference to Constantinople - proverb

noun:

• stealing a car by rear-ending it lightly and having a friend jump in and drive off after the driver gets out - slang