to be prolonged;  to drag on
 being put off (by someone's words, behaviour, etc.);  being taken aback;  recoiling (in shock, disgust, etc.);  zooming out or pulling the camera back to get a wider image (in film and TV)
 guidance;  lead;  guide;  primer;  influence;  connections
 delineation;  demarcation;  drawing a line (e.g. between what's acceptable and unacceptable);  (measuring) ruler
 thinning out;  pruning;  culling;  infanticide
 price reduction;  discount
 lottery;  tombola;  drawing
 to thin out (plants, seedlings, crops, etc.);  to cull;  to run on a curtailed schedule;  to cut down;  to kill a newborn child (due to financial difficulties)
 (secret) date;  clandestine meeting;  assignation;  tryst;  rendezvous
 discount;  reduction;  rebate;  tenths discounted;  tenths reduced
 to trail (of smoke, clouds, etc.);  to hang (of mist, haze, etc.);  to lie (over);  to linger;  to flow (e.g. of hair in the wind)
 deduction in advance (of tax, interest, etc.)
 walking off with someone's bag;  luggage theft;  luggage thief
 tout;  swindler;  con-man;  pimp
 negotiating a lower price;  negotiate a discount;  price negotiation
 cancellation;  writing off (a debt);  indicating a long sound in kana;  tug o' war;  tug of war
 leaving work (office, school) early
 handbook;  manual;  guide;  primer
 beach seine;  long-haul seine;  dragnet
 absence from work (school) due to mourning
 sawing;  death by sawing (i.e. as a capital punishment)
 citation at second remove;  second hand citation
 salted fish (esp. salmon)
 looking up a word or kanji by its reading (rather than by its radical or stroke count);  katakana-hiragana prolonged sound mark
 reverse lookup (e.g. dictionary, address resolution, etc.)
 curtailed transit schedule
 drawing red lines;  red lines on maps marking town limits (Edo period); (arch.)  red lines marking nouns in kanbun texts
 vegetable thinnings (for salad)
 for enemies and allies to pull back their troops at the same time;  responding to enemy arrow fire with arrow fire
 seine fishing;  seining;  seine;  seine net
 walking encyclopedia;  walking dictionary
 tehonbiki (type of card game associated with gambling)
 discount coupon or ticket
 seine fishing (usu. from the beach);  dragnet fishing
 closing (a market or trading session);  closing price
(arch.)  type of loom used in olden times;  loom;  traditional loom
 knob-and-tube wiring;  insulator wiring;  electrical wiring strung on surface-mounted insulators
 to prolong;  to protract;  to draw out
 bracket saw;  sabre saw;  saber saw
 lookup (e.g. in a dictionary, address list, etc.)
(arch.)  type of loom used in olden times;  loom;  traditional loom
 closure at a high price;  closing higher
 non-refundable restoration fee (when moving out of a property);  money withheld from a deposit
 zinc-coated;  galvanized;  galvanised