mission; errand; task; duty; obligation
to be frugal; to be sparing; to value; to hold dear; to regret (e.g. a loss); to feel sorry (for)
while there is life, there is hope; without life, there is nothing; don't waste your life
to change completely; to switch (to); to shift (to another mode)
balcony; veranda; verandah; porch
agile; nimble; casual (clothing); light (e.g. luggage); carefree; with limited responsibility
ladder; stairs; going to several places in succession (e.g. barhopping)
storehouse; warehouse; godown
aeroplane; airplane; aircraft
vertical take off and landing; VTOL
maneuver (usu. of military force); manoeuvre; mobile; nimble; agile
national border; provincial border
moment; brief space of time
equipment; device; installation; stage setting
warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai; (arch.) man in attendance (on a person of high standing); (arch.) retainer
least weasel (Mustela nivalis)
dropping; losing; missing item; something one forgot to write down; trap; wooden protrusion from a Japanese door frame that fits a hole in the threshold, acting as a lock when closed; conclusion (of a speech, etc.)
to be dizzy; to be disoriented; to be dazzled; to be lost in (greed, lust, etc.)
impossible to understand; impossible to decipher
to stretch around (e.g. a fence, dragnet, etc.); to lay out (e.g. a wiring system, network, etc.); to string up (e.g. an antenna, ship's rigging, etc.)
to warp; to bend backwards; to throw the head (or shoulders) back; to throw out the chest
learning by ear; memory of having heard something before
to maintain; to continue to have
any moment now; any minute now; as soon as possible; right away
to let out a cry; to break forth
to become desperate; to give in to despair
one move (in go, shogi, etc.); only way; only means; doing alone; doing single-handed
right in the center (centre)
automatic; intransitive verb
(arch.) kariginu (informal clothes worn by the nobility from the Heian period onwards); (during the Edo period) patterned kariginu
to house; to contain; to carry (a baby); to be pregnant; (arch.) to give lodging to; (arch.) to accommodate