layman (esp. as opposed to a Buddhist monk); laity; local manners; modern customs; common; popular
process; operation; stage of a process; progress of work
one-owner (e.g. car); having one (previous) owner
being in school; being a student (of)
partial blindness; dim eyesight
director of a medical clinic
having a crush on someone
general contractor; main contractor; major construction company
being excluded; being ignored; being kept in the dark (about); being kept out of the loop; (lit.) outside the mosquito net
civil engineering and construction; public works and construction
heavy machinery; heavy equipment; heavy machine gun
suspicion will raise bogies; once you suspect something, everything else will look suspicious; jumping at shadows
on the desk; theoretical; academic; armchair (e.g. plan)
handrail; railing; banister
reminiscent smile; laughing at a memory; smiling to oneself as one recalls something pleasant or amusing
one scene; one frame; one shot; one cell; one panel (comic)
absorption; suction; attraction
advance; moving forward; progress
hole; hole; cup; (electron) hole
live (broadcasting, music, etc.); live performance; live concert; resonant (room, etc.); reverberating
every person; every mouth; every entrance
starting point; origin; origin (of coordinate axes); datum point
return (to); revolution; recurrence; regression
unheard-of; unprecedented; unparalleled in history (unparallelled); record-breaking
three flat objects (sheets of paper, pieces of cloth, etc.); cutting a fish into two boneless fillets and a piece with the skeleton
editor (in publishing, etc.)
rough; crude; sloppy; miscellaneous
name of a magazine; name of a journal
bookstore; bookshop; publisher; main building
reading while standing (in a bookstore, etc.); browsing (i.e. reading an item but not buying it)
under investigation; under consideration; under review; pending (decision, etc.); awaiting verification
the whole day; all the day
different kind; another sort; separate item; separate account (e.g. bank account)
monolith; large slab of rock; unity (of a group, organization, etc.); unanimity; solidarity
leak (of information); leakage (of electricity)
link; connection; filler; stopgap (job, budget, etc.); thickener (e.g. in cooking); thickening; hedging