noun:

• course of a thrown ball - Baseball term
• course of a hit ball (golf, tennis, etc.) - Sports term

noun / ~の noun:

• unilaterality (e.g. of a contract); one-sidedness (e.g. of a treaty)

noun / ~の noun:

• bilaterality (e.g. of a contract); two-sidedness (e.g. of a treaty)

noun:

• presence (of a nobleman, the emperor, etc.) ➜ おまえ
• outrider (person riding horseback in the lead position of a cavalcade) ➜ 前駆

noun / suffix noun:

• My Lord; My Lady

expression / noun:

• completely empty (of a residence, etc.); vacant; deserted ➜ 蛻【もぬけ】
• body from which the soul has left; corpse
• shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc.) - orig. meaning

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to wave; to shake; to swing
• to sprinkle; to throw (dice)
• to cast (actor); to allocate (work)
• to turn down (somebody); to reject; to jilt; to dump
• to abandon; to give up; to ruin
• to add kana indicating a reading of a word ➜ 振り仮名
• to slightly change headings; to change directions
• to extract by broiling; to prepare an infusion of; to decoct
• to carry with great vigor (e.g. a portable shrine)
• to bring up a topic; to lead to a topic
• to replace; to substitute
• to set up a joke for somebody else

noun:

• peacherine; hybrid of a peach and a nectarine; cross between a peach and a nectarine

noun:

• rod; pole
• neck (of a shamisen, etc.); shamisen - esp. 棹
• beam (i.e. the crossbar of a balance)
• single line (esp. as a flying formation for geese)
• penis - slang

counter:

• counter for flags (on poles); counter for long, thin Japanese sweets (e.g. youkan)

noun:

• backwash; rip current; undertow ➜ 寄せ波
• stern wave
• drawback (of a tsunami, i.e. when a wave trough reaches land before a crest) ➜ 押し波

expression:

• all pain, no gain; doing no good and a lot of harm; having no redeeming features; being a complete disadvantage; a hundred harms and not a single gain [literal] - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• relocation of a shrine; transfer of an object of worship

noun:

• pawn (chess piece) ［ポーン］

~と adverb:

• boing; sproing (e.g. sound of releasing a spring); plonk (e.g. sound of hitting a tennis ball); crack (e.g. sound of ice cracking underfoot) - onomatopoeia
• flipping through the air; tossing - onomatopoeia

expression / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to have a tendency to; to be liable to; to have a touch of; to have a smack of

noun:

• sound of flapping wings (of a bird)
• buzz; hum (of an insect)

noun:

• eldest son - archaism ➜ 長男
• older brother; older sister - archaism
• older person - archaism
• head of a clan; head of a region - archaism ➜ 氏上
• skilled craftsman - archaism

noun:

• subject (of a medical experiment, etc.); test subject; trial subject; testee ［被験者］
• examinee (of a full-body scan, etc.)

noun:

• celebration of a birth (usu. approx. one month after birth)
• gift at the birth of a child; baby gift

noun / ~する noun:

• setting oneself free from the life of a white-collar worker; quitting a job as a salaryman and launching an independent business ➜ サラ

noun:

• marguerite (Chrysanthemum frutescens) ［マーガレット］
• Japanese women's hairstyle comprised of a long braid tied up in a loop with a ribbon (ca. 1885)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be hit; to strike Antonym: 外す
• to touch; to be in contact; to be affixed
• to be equivalent to; to be applicable; to apply to
• to be right on the money (of a prediction, criticism, etc.)
• to be selected (in a lottery, etc.); to win
• to be successful; to go well; to be a hit
• to face; to confront
• to lie (in the direction of)
• to undertake; to be assigned
• to be stricken (by food poisoning, heat, etc.); to be afflicted
• to be called upon (by the teacher)
• to treat (esp. harshly); to lash out at
• to be unnecessary - as 〜するには当たらない, etc.
• to be hitting well; to be on a hitting streak - usu. as 当たっている - Baseball term
• (in fishing) to feel a bite
• (of fruit, etc.) to be bruised; to spoil

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to feel (something) out; to probe into; to check (i.e. by comparison)
• to shave
• to be a relative of a person; to stand in a relationship - as 〜の〜に当たる

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to buy (of a government, public agency, etc. from a private citizen); to purchase
• to buy up (all of something)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have grown tense (of a situation); to have become critical (and to be on the verge of a major upheaval)

noun:

• being able to hear something (clearly); clearness of a sound; reception (e.g. of a radio station)
• reputation; renown; fame; hearsay
• impression (that something gives off); respectability
• sonority - Linguistics term

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be quiet (due to lack of activity); to be in a slump (of a business) - idiom ➜ 閑古鳥

noun:

• revised edition (of a book or manuscript); authoritative edition; standard edition; edition incorporating many changes and corrections
• final version of a book as edited by the author; revised edition of a book as edited by the author