noun / ~する noun:

• pressing one's hands together in prayer

noun:

• triangular frame of a thatched roof

expression:

• Yours sincerely; Yours truly; Sincerely yours - at the end of Buddhist correspondence ➜ 敬具

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to model on; to make in the shape of; to represent; to pattern after; to imitate
• to symbolise

noun / ~の noun:

• flip; luck-pusher; frivolous person; person who readily chimes in with others; person who gets carried away easily

godan ~く verb:

• to dawdle; to waste time doing nothing in particular
• to fret; to sulk; to complain
• to rain on and off

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to demand gratitude; to do something for someone in order to create an obligation of gratitude from that person

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to depend on somebody for food and lodging - idiom
• to be treated coldly; to be kept in a low position - idiom

noun:

• reporter assigned to cover a particular person in order to get the most up-to-date information; beat reporter

noun:

• small, thin fabric belt worn over the kimono and under the obi in order to protect the fabric

noun:

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

noun:

• rigging (a ship, aircraft, etc.)
• rigging; gear; tackle
• rigging; in animation, a hierarchy of virtual skeletal bones ［リギング］

noun:

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

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to gnaw; to nibble; to bite; to munch; to crunch
• to dabble in; to have a smattering of

adjective:

• low (rank, degree, value, content, quality, etc.) Antonym: 高い・高い
• low (position); close to the ground
• short (height)
• deep (voice); in a low key; low (volume)

noun / ~する noun:

• control (of a machine, device, etc.)
• control (over an opponent, one's emotions, etc.); governing; management; suppression; keeping in check

noun:

• nine traditional astrological signs in Onmyōdō, each corresponding to the year of a person's birth and used to create a horoscope ➜ 陰陽道・一白【いっぱく】・二黒【じこく】・三碧【さんぺき】・四緑【しろく】・五黄【ごおう】・六白【ろっぱく】・七赤【しちせき】・八白【はっぱく】・九紫【きゅうし】

noun:

• style of speaking in which the speaker gives the end of each sentence or phrase a higher intonation - From English "up talk"

noun:

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

noun:

• coloring fabric by placing a paper stencil over it and brushing on the dye; fabric colored in such a manner - obscure term

noun:

• crocodile monitor (Varanus salvadorii, species of carnivorous monitor lizard found in New Guinea); Salvadori's monitor; Papua monitor; artellia

noun:

• courteous language (i.e. humble language in which an action or object is not directed toward the listener or a third party) ➜ 謙譲語ＩＩ

noun:

• 1995 Okinawa rape incident; kidnapping and rape of a 12-year-old Japanese girl by three U.S. servicemen stationed in Okinawa

noun / ~する noun:

• reduction and exemption (e.g. taxes); mitigation and remission (e.g. in criminal law)

suffix:

• keep ...-ing; have been ...-ing; leaving (something) on; leaving (something) still in use - negative nuance, with the state being improper, unpleasant, etc.

noun:

• place in the shade of a mountain; shelter of the mountains
• mountain recess ［やまかげ］

noun:

• stone weight (as used on pickle-tub covers) - esp. 重石 - abbreviation ➜ 重し石
• weight (as used in balances)