noun:

• telephone appointment; arranging meetings and appointments in advance by phone - abbreviation
• cold-calling to get potential customers to agree to meet a salesman; carrying out market surveys by phone

noun:

• Acanthurus (type genus of surgeonfishes and tangs in the family Acanthuridae which have a pair of sharp spines on either side of the base of the tail)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to exhaust one's vocabulary (in trying to persuade somebody or explain something, etc.); to run out of words; to be verbose; to cajole; to talk someone's head off

noun / suffix noun:

• part; segment; share; ration ➜ 分の
• rate
• degree; one's lot; one's status; relation; duty; kind; lot ➜ 身分

suffix noun:

• relationship; connection; correspondence

noun / suffix noun:

• in proportion to; just as much as

noun:

• numbered ticket (e.g. to determine order of service in shop, etc.)
• zone ticket; boarding ticket; bus ticket dispensed at boarding, used to show where one boarded

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to boil up; to come to the boil; to seethe - esp. 沸き上がる
• to arise; to break out
• to get excited; to be in uproar

noun:

• fold; pleat; gathers; tuck
• folds (e.g of a mountain); crease
• (hidden) detail; nuance; shade; wrinkle (e.g. in logic)
• lamella; gill (of a mushroom)

noun:

• hidden village (esp. hidden retreat for nobles or refuge for soldiers of a defeated army); isolated village
• legendary land (deep in mountains or underground); Shangri-La

expression:

• fighting with one's back to the wall; having burnt one's bridges; last stand; from strategy of general Han Xin in the Battle of Jingxing - idiom

noun:

• symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship)

prefix noun:

• certain; unnamed; undisclosed; unidentified

expression / adjective:

• being painfully-true (e.g. reprimand); making one's ears burn; striking home (e.g. remark) - idiom
• having an earache; feeling pain in one's ear

noun:

• evening moon; moon that can only be seen in the early hours of the night (esp. from the 2nd to the 7th of the eight month) ➜ 夕月

noun:

• favourable terms; favorable terms; favourable conditions; favorable conditions; place in the sun

noun:

• cicadas that sing when autumn comes ➜ 秋蝉
• cicadas that sing even in autumn

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to freeze (in fear, surprise, etc.); to cower; to flinch
• to shrink up; to shrink; to shrivel up

expression / ichidan verb:

• to get one's lazy butt in gear; to get off one's backside; to bestir oneself - idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• large part; greater part; majority
• people in general; general public; public at large

adverb:

• mostly; for the most part; almost; nearly
• probably; maybe; perhaps

noun / ~する noun:

• expression in writing; written representation; notation; transcription; orthography
• writing on the surface (e.g. an address on an envelope); inscribing on the face

noun / ~する noun:

• looking straight ahead; looking in the face
• looking squarely at (e.g. a problem); facing (e.g. the truth); confronting

noun:

• normal vision; emmetropia

noun:

• young underground market (the underground economy in goods and services, involving lots of barter and buying and selling of secondhand goods)

noun:

• meeting or association of stable masters belonging to the same grouping - Sumo term
• meeting or association of followers of a famous performer (in rakugo, etc.)

noun:

• leaving a device on (e.g. TV, air conditioner); leaving something engaged (e.g. a key in a lock) ➜ っぱなし

adjectival noun / noun:

• second (party to an agreement); the B party (e.g. in a contract); the latter; defendant ➜ 甲【こう】
• stylish; chic; spicy; witty; tasty; romantic

adjectival noun:

• strange; quaint; queer

expression:

• thank you; good job; goodbye; goodnight - abbreviation - slang ➜ お疲れ様

noun:

• homely woman (esp. one with a small low nose, high flat forehead, and bulging cheeks); plain woman - derogatory term ➜ お多福・ひょっとこ
• soba in soup with slices of boiled fish paste, shiitake mushrooms, greens, seaweed, etc. - abbreviation ➜ お亀蕎麦

noun:

• bath heated directly from beneath, with a floating wooden lid on which the bather sits causing it to sink (named after the robber Goemon Ishikawa, who was boiled to death in one)