offensive (movement); aggression
to float in the air; to be unfinished; to be unsettled; to be undecided
innumerable; countless; numberless
high-ranking noh actor; head of a school of noh performance; high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period); jōruri narrator; manzai narrator; female role actor in kabuki; low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine
not; nonexistent; not being (there)
daggertooth pike conger (Muraenesox cinereus); (in Northern Japan) conger eel; garden eel
osteotomy; finely cutting a fish to cut up its small bones
handheld mixer; hand mixer
shaking (e.g. a container); milkshake; shake
combo (esp. a small jazz group); combination; set; combo (set of actions performed in sequence)
to be stormy; to be rough; to be rough (of skin); to be chapped; to be ruined; to fall into ruin
piece(s) of firewood (esp. chopped or split from logs); kindling (twigs, branches, etc.); firewood
flame; blaze; flames (of intense emotion, e.g. love, jealousy, anger); passion
tone (of voice); parlance; style; intonation; accent
shoryuken (uppercut move in the Street Fighter series)
to pierce through; to break through
both sides; two sides; double-sided
cooking, esp. frying or stir-frying; heating; tempering; -ware
piping hot; scalding; madly in love; passionately in love
heavy machinery; heavy equipment; heavy machine gun
round shape; circle; circular form
to gouge out; to excavate; to hollow; to bore; to drill; to carve (e.g. pumpkin)
trader; dealer; businessperson; fellow trader; people in the same trade
to hold back others from achieving success; to stand in the way of; to sabotage
standing facing each other (e.g. mountains, buildings); standing opposite each other; confrontation; squaring off against (adversaries, armies, forces); standing off against
the same night; that night
hard fight; close game; struggle; tight contest
opposite side; other side
looking directly at; looking straight at; looking squarely at (e.g. a problem); facing (e.g. the truth); normal vision; emmetropia
to find fault with other people rather than oneself; (for the pot) to call the kettle black
weak (organization, organisation)
gap; space; break; interlude; chink (in one's armor, armour); chance