to speed; to tear away; to skip over (e.g. pages)
(telephone) call; (telephone) ring; shout; call; call loan (e.g. 30-day call); call money
to summon; to call (e.g. phone); to convene; to invoke (e.g. subroutine); to call; to open (e.g. a file)
answering machine; answerphone
to extract; to pull out; to draw out; to headhunt; to lure away; to poach
shipping; shipment; forwarding
distant future; inevitable future; places one goes to
summertime; summer season
how long; how far; how much
initialization; initialisation; formatting; resetting
optical communications line; optical network
(if) by some chance; by some possibility; in the unlikely event that; (unlikely event of) emergency; the worst(-case scenario)
Deva king; fierce guardian god (at a temple gate)
antique art dealer; antique dealer; antiquary
to give; to offer; to lift up; to hold up; to raise
situation; (present) state of affairs; circumstances
appreciation (of art, music, poetry, etc.)
swift attack; quick attack; fast break; right away; without delay; immediately
exposing fully; uncovering completely; being in full view; putting on display; not disguising
iris (flower); Siberian iris (Iris sanguinea); (arch.) sweet flag (Acorus calamus); (arch.) calamus
to take something into ...; to bring in; to lodge (a complaint); to file (a plan); to bring to (a state: tied game, vote, trial, etc.)
in a sense; in some way; to an extent
to contract; to undertake; to take over; to take responsibility for
image (on a screen); picture (e.g. on a TV); video; film; reflection; image (in one's mind)
to bite at; to snap at; to jump at (e.g. an offer); to snap at; to hold on to; to cling to
mere shadow of one's former self; having no trace left (of former glories, talent, looks, etc.); unrecognizable (as the person one used to be); unrecognisable
tag; slip; label; sticker
karaoke box; club with individual rooms that can be rented with karaoke machines
the "a" column of the Japanese syllabary table (a, i, u, e, o)
pedestrian crossing; crosswalk
store selling musical instruments
sense of the seasons; feeling of seasonality
purple; violet; Lithospermum erythrorhizon (species of gromwell); type of soy sauce
fragrant olive (Osmanthus fragrans var. aurantiacus)
very young; little; childish; immature
to screw; to twist; to distort; to parody; to torture; to wrest
collection of books; (personal) library