noun:

• rug
• lag (esp. in online gaming)

noun / ~する noun:

• squeeze (play) - Baseball term
• (in scuba diving) discomfort or pain caused by increasing water pressure compressing body air spaces and pushing body tissue inward

noun / ~する noun:

• piercing; penetrating; perforating; passing through
• being well versed (in something)

adjectival noun / noun:

• cleverness; skill; tact

noun:

• clever person (in a particular field); skillful person (skilful)

noun / ~の noun:

• column; shaft; cylinder ［円柱］

noun:

• round pillar (esp. in buildings) - usu. まるばしら ➜ 角柱

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to distinguish; to recognize; to recognise; to tell apart; to differentiate (both figuratively and visually)
• to identify (whether an object is positive or negative in some aspect); to know the difference between something of superior and inferior quality (on sight or figuratively)

noun:

• worldly desires; evil passions; appetites of the flesh
• klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering) - Buddhism term

noun:

• small private school (esp. for cramming)
• private school (in the Edo period, orig. run by Confucianists)

noun / ~する noun:

• going to war; departure for the front
• departure for military service (in response to a draft)

noun / ~する noun:

• change of tone; variation (music); irregularity; anomaly; abnormality
• modulation (in radio)

noun:

• the Four Heavenly Kings (Dhrtarastra, Virudhaka, Virupaksa, and Vaisravana) - Buddhism term
• the big four (i.e. four leaders in a given field)

noun:

• fighting scene; scene of carnage (bloodshed)
• location of the fight between the Asuras and Shakra ［しゅらじょう］ ➜ 阿修羅【あしゅら】・帝釈天【たいしゃくてん】
• difficulties (in a love relationship) ［しゅらば］ - colloquialism
• crunch time (esp. for cartoonists) ［しゅらば］ - colloquialism

noun / ~する noun:

• death from explosion; death from bombing
• bombing (in sales); flopping - slang

noun:

• tempura served over a bowl of rice
• (in comedy) repeating the same gag or silly line - colloquialism

noun:

• my younger brother
• underling (e.g. in yakuza)

noun / ~する noun:

• weather strip; weather stripping; sealing up (a window)
• putting on eyeliner (in theatre) ［目張り］

noun:

• bloodshot eyes
• (doing something in a) frenzy ［ちまなこ］

noun / ~する noun:

• overseas travel (to Western countries); going abroad (to study or travel)

noun:

• store operated by a foreigner (in pre-communist China)

noun:

• ornamental garden stone (seemingly placed randomly to give the garden a more natural appearance)
• sacrificed stone (in the game of go) ➜ 捨て駒

noun:

• standard practice; playing by the book; established tactic; formula
• joseki (in go); standard sequence (esp. in a corner); standard move

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to move up (e.g. date, rank, order); to be advanced Antonym: 繰り下がる
• to be carried (of a number in addition) - Mathematics term ➜ 繰り下がる

noun:

• zigzag-shaped paper streamer often used to adorn Shinto-related objects
• hornbeam (deciduous tree in the birch family) ［四手・垂］

noun:

• lifeline
• life line (in palm reading)

noun:

• embossing a pattern; repoussé; hammering
• drum signaling the end of a performance ➜ 打ち出し太鼓
• serve (e.g. in tennis); drive (in golf)
• printout; printing out ➜ 打ち出す【うちだす】

noun / ~する noun:

• monk's "begging"; religious mendicancy; asking for alms
• going with one's bowl to the meditation hall at mealtime (in a Zen temple) - Buddhism term