noun:

• last spurt; home stretch; last part of a race or period of time where you give it your best effort

noun:

• being preoccupied with immediate (superficial) differences without realizing that there are no differences in substance; six of one and half a dozen of another - four character idiom

noun:

• remaining bony parts (of a fish after filleting) - usu. アラ
• flaw (esp. of a person); fault; defect
• rice chaff

prefix:

• rough
• crude; raw; natural; wild

noun:

• mist over a body of water; spray
• suien; four decorative metal plates joined at right angles forming part of a pagoda finial ［すいえん］

expression:

• bursts of exertion will fail to bear fruit if interrupted by long periods of idleness - four character idiom
• strenuous efforts, unless sustained, are to no avail (Mencius)

noun:

• five implements placed in front of a Buddhist altar: two candlesticks, two vases (usu. containing flowers made of gilded copper) and one incense burner

noun:

• which one
• one of; any of

suffix:

• far from; anything but; not at all
• let alone; to say nothing of; not to speak of; much less

noun:

• ground beetle; carabid (esp. of superfamily Caraboidea, but excluding subfamily Carabinae)
• Anisodactylus signatus (species of ground beetle)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to run out of sake; to be out of sake; to run out of alcohol

noun:

• man with a gentle nature
• man of delicate features; man of slender build
• effeminate man; feeble man

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• outbreak; spring forth; occurrence; incidence
• generation (e.g. of power or heat); genesis; origin
• ontogeny; development of complex multicellular structures from cell(s) in a simple state ➜ 個体発生

noun:

• bonfire often in temple grounds, usu. of charms, talismans, New Year decorations, etc. - Shintō term
• ritual burning of money, cedar sticks, or other objects as an offering ➜ 護摩【ごま】

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to come out; to fall out; to be omitted; to be missing; to escape; to come loose
• to fade; to discolour
• to wear a hole (e.g. clothes)
• to leave (e.g. a meeting)
• to be clear; to be transparent (e.g. of the sky)
• to be stupid; to be absentminded; to be careless; to be inattentive - usu. as 抜けた or 抜けている
• to exit (a program loop) - IT term

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to go through; to pass through

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to drop; to lose; to let fall; to shed (light); to cast (one's gaze); to pour in (liquid); to leave behind
• to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose; to spend money at a certain place; to omit; to leave out; to secretly let escape
• to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to fail (a course); to defeat (in an election)
• to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice); to lessen (e.g. production or body weight); to worsen (quality); to reduce (e.g. rank or popularity); to speak badly of; to make light of; to fall into straitened circumstances
• to fall into (e.g. a dilemma or sin); to make one's own; to have one's bid accepted; to force surrender; to take (e.g. an enemy camp or castle); to forcefully convince; to press for a confession; to deal with
• to download; to copy from a computer to another medium - IT term
• to make someone swoon (judo) - Martial Arts term
• to finish a story (e.g. with the punch line)
• to finish (a period, e.g. of fasting)

noun:

• main guest; guest of honor; guest of honour

noun:

• honorary title; title of honour; title of honor

noun:

• lump of ice; block of ice; ice floe

noun:

• feeling of tension; air of tension; tension; nervousness

noun:

• business items; description of business; line of business

noun:

• occasion; time
• section (of a literary work); paragraph; verse; stanza; passage
• principle; integrity
• node (of a plant stem)
• clause - Linguistics term
• (taxonomical) section

noun:

• (crime of) incapacitated rape; crime of sexual assault against somebody who is intoxicated, asleep or otherwise unable to consent or resist - Law term

noun:

• wait to turn either of two pairs into a three-of-a-kind to finish one's hand - Mahjong term - From Chinese ➜ シャンポン待ち【シャンポンまち】

noun / ~する noun:

• bowing respectfully with one's hands clasped in front of one's chest - obscure term
• abdication of an emperor to a successor (China) - archaism

noun:

• Ministry of Labour (now Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) ➜ 厚生労働省