to stay up all night; to sit up all night; to do something all night
to ask for; to apply for; to make an application for; to file a request for; to submit (e.g. one's resignation)
idle gossip; foolish talk; yarn
to dry up; to parch; to ebb away
billiards; pool; snooker; cue sports
billiards; pool; serial collisions (of cars)
ground; earth; grounding; touching the ground; landing (an airplane)
second; number two; runner-up
object ball (in cue sports)
beanbags; jackstones; cueball
ramrod; rammer; ram; (cattle) prod; goad
long sides of a rectangle
to rebound; to recoil; to splash; to have a repercussion; to have a reciprocal effect
first law of thermodynamics
law of conservation of energy
carom (billiards); cannon
to use as an intermediary; to mediate; to assist; to worry; to mind; to care
ghost; spirit; apparition; spiritual body; causal body
unusual event; strange occurrence; strange phenomenon; something abnormal; change (for the worse); accident
to suck up; to absorb; to squeeze (money)
central nervous system; CNS
contest decided by a single round (bout); contest decided by a single roll of dice; one-shot game (contest); make-or-break game
perfect (for); ideal; just right; most suitable; tailor-made
appendix; postscript; retrofit; post-installation; giving a reason afterwards; making an excuse after the event
to fail to catch; to let slip; to miss
to be doing; to be in the process of doing
father-in-law; foster father; stepfather
name and address (on an envelope, etc.); (addressee's) name; addressee
series; sequence; keiretsu (group); conglomeration of businesses linked by cross-shareholdings; affiliated; subsidiary
assistant ...; probationary ...
clothing; dressing; binding (of a book)
technical term; terminology; jargon
to go ahead; to pull ahead
foreseeing; anticipating; lookahead; prefetching; reading ahead
optimization; optimisation
to mistake (A for B); to misread
to arrive at (e.g. a decision); to reach (a stage); to lead to (a place); to get to; in the extreme case of; (arch.) to come