peers; friends; fellow workers; comrades
cookware; cooking utensil
cooking; food preparation
assistant; helper; assistant (to a professor); research assistant
setting a place; setting the table
accountant; accounting clerk; cashier; treasurer
even though things may appear this way
eggplant (Solanum melongena); aubergine
shelving (a play, movie, etc.); closing down; cancelling; rice storehouse (of the Edo shogunate)
to fry; to saute; to stir-fry
order (for goods or services); order (sequence); order (of magnitude); order
peeler (kitchen utensil); peeler (for peeling a label from its base in a barcode printer)
how much; how many; no matter how (much); however; (not) many; (not) much
line of flow (of people, objects, etc.)
trap door; removable floor boards
in the same way as; just like
to become ...-ish; to appear like ...; to have a touch of ...; to become stained with ...; to become steeped with ...; to become smeared with ...
partition; division; settlement of accounts; preliminary warm-up ritual; toeing the mark; directing
to be at a loss; to be puzzled
preliminary arrangements; preparation; spadework; pre-cooking
generally; in the main; (more or less) everything; all parts; ordinary; usual
waiting on a table; serving (at dinner); waiter; waitress; office boy; office girl
mourning; mourning period; anniversary of one's death
moderate; proper; just right
gaping (e.g. mouth, wound); (opening) wide; snapping up (e.g. bait); biting into (food); snatching; stealing