noun:

• taking the entrance examination for a school without regard for one's chances of passing

noun:

• moon palace of the Hindu god Chandra
• imperial palace
• Yoshiwara red light district - archaism

noun:

• useable footage ratio; proportion of footage that can be used for the final cut

expression / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to be in danger of; to be liable to

noun / ~する noun:

• growing en masse in a location (plants) ［ぐんせい］
• living gregariously (animals, people); living in a community ［ぐんせい］

noun:

• all animate creation - Buddhism term

noun / ~の noun:

• veteran; (someone) schooled by adversity in many battles; (someone) rich in life's experience gained through much adversity - four character idiom

expression:

• there is unexpected good in what others have left behind; last but not least; there is fortune in leftovers [literal] - proverb ➜ 残り物に福がある【のこりものにふくがある】

expression:

• there is unexpected good in what others have left behind; last but not least; there is fortune in leftovers [literal] - proverb

expression / adverb:

• in so doing; when you do so; in this regard; on this occasion; some time during that period

expression:

• there is unexpected good in what others have left behind; last but not least; there is fortune in leftovers [literal] - proverb ➜ 残り物には福がある【のこりものにはふくがある】

godan ~つ verb / intransitive verb:

• to lead; to take the lead (in doing something)
• to precede; to go before; to take precedence
• to die before (esp. one's spouse, parents, etc.)
• to be a prerequisite

adjectival noun / noun:

• dry (esp. as in not wet or as in dry humour)

noun / ~する noun:

• remaining in office; staying in office; remaining at one's post

noun:

• education in art and design; education in drawing and manual arts - four character idiom

noun:

• substrate (i.e. in biochemistry)
• matrix (i.e. in biology); stroma

noun:

• foil (i.e. aluminum foil) ➜ ホイル
• foil (in fencing) ➜ フルーレ
• foil (in Gothic architecture)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• be absorbed in deep thought; be sunk in thought

noun / ~する noun:

• nick in a blade (sword, knife); chip in a blade

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to assemble (in a hall); to meet together (in a room)

noun:

• result (of an election); success or defeat (in an election)
• winning or losing (a lottery, raffle, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• cancellation; writing off (a debt)
• indicating a long sound in kana ➜ 長音【ちょうおん】

noun:

• tug o' war; tug of war

noun / ~する noun:

• abbreviation; simplified form of a character; cutting out some strokes in a character; omitting some passages

noun:

• order - Biology term
• item (of a budget revision, etc.)

counter:

• counter for go pieces; counter for surrounded positions (in go) ➜ 囲碁

noun:

• alternative name; alternate name
• assumed name of a customer in a brothel (for anonymity)
• stage name

noun:

• Showa-era stage show in which a woman would stand half-naked in a frame (resembling a Western-style painting)