noun / suffix noun / counter:

• serving (of food); helping

noun:

• chilled soba served on a dish (often on a wicker basket or in a shallow steaming basket) with dipping sauce - abbreviation ➜ 盛り蕎麦

expression / ichidan verb:

• to cut off a finger (as an act of apology) ➜ 指詰め
• to catch one's finger (in a door, etc.) - Kansai dialect

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be moved back (e.g. date, rank, order); to be postponed Antonym: 繰り上がる【くりあがる】
• to be borrowed (of a number in subtraction) - Mathematics term ➜ 繰り上がる【くりあがる】

noun / suffix noun:

• taking; taker; collecting; collector; remover; removal

noun:

• last performer of the day (usu. the star performer); last performance of the day
• active partner (e.g. in judo demonstration)

prefix:

• emphatic or formal prefix - before a verb

noun:

• deposit insurance
• payoff (e.g. in game theory)

noun:

• physical labor; physical labour; manual work; heavy work ［荒業］
• drastic move (e.g. hold or strike in martial arts); power technique; display of power

conjunction:

• indicates two contrasting actions - form: ...つ...つ ➜ 浮きつ沈みつ・追いつ追われつ

particle:

• indicates possessive (often found in place names and compound words) - archaism

noun:

• cysticercosis - Medicine term
• measles (in cattle, etc.)

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to forestall; to beat to the punch; to anticipate
• to play the first move (e.g. in go)

noun:

• layer
• cosplayer (someone who participates in cosplay); cosplayers ［レイヤー］ - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ コスプレイヤー

noun:

• building on the greater palace grounds used by the emperor for viewing horse racing, horseback archery, etc. ➜ 大内裏
• martial arts practice hall at Heian Shrine (est. in 1895 by the Dai Nippon Butoku Kai, now defunct)

noun:

• changing the world; turning the tide
• torpedo modified as a suicide weapon (used in WWII)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to stab; to thrust (into)
• to plant (in the ground); to stick upright

noun:

• mob; crowd of people
• background character (in a manga, anime, etc.); mob (in a video game); non-playable character ［モブ］

noun:

• altering pronunciation or meaning; word with altered pronunciation or meaning
• turning or twisting part of a text (in Chinese poetry) - abbreviation ➜ 転句【てんく】

noun:

• false start of a bout - Sumo term
• backsies (called when taking back a move in a game)

noun / ~する noun:

• (providing) covering fire - four character idiom
• supporting (backing up) someone (in a debate or argument)

noun:

• headliner
• latter half of a formal tea ceremony (in which the tea is actually consumed) ➜ 初座

noun:

• welding base metal; parent metal
• base material (in construction, etc.)

noun:

• Inari (god of harvests, wealth, fertility, etc.) - honorific language ➜ 稲荷
• Inari shrine - honorific language ➜ 稲荷
• inarizushi (sushi wrapped in fried tofu) - polite language ➜ 稲荷鮨
• scrotum; testicle sack - humorous term - slang

noun:

• common difference - Mathematics term
• tolerance (in engineering, manufacturing, etc.); allowance; allowable error

noun:

• temple bell
• (in Japan) 7th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. G sharp) ➜ すい賓・十二律

noun:

• low-ranking samurai - abbreviation - derogatory term ➜ 三一侍
• rolling three and one (in a dice game) - orig. meaning ➜ ピン

noun:

• no wait state memory (memory the CPU can access without requiring wait states) - abbreviation - IT term
• instant (e.g. for display speed of text in computer games) - From English "no wait"

adjectival noun:

• explosive
• sudden and dramatic (of an increase in sales, popularity, etc.); explosive; rapid; abrupt; tremendous