confrontation; opposition; antagonism
surgery; operation; procedure; skill with one's hands; sleight of hand
service (bus, train); operation; motion; revolution; movement
flight (e.g. airline flight); trip (e.g. train trip); mail; post; opportunity; chance
number of long thin objects (movies, TV programs, baseball games, etc.) (programmes)
it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that...
to wedge one's way in; to push in (between); to step in (between); to interrupt (a conversation, quarrel, etc.); to intervene
young girl; lass; adolescent female
to hurt one's feelings; to rub someone the wrong way
pathogenic bacteria; germ; pathogen
good young man; agreeable youth
increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less
good impression; favorable impression
knowing only too well; being fully aware of
pavement café; sidewalk café; open-air café
easy to drink; easy to swallow; quaffable
faint; indistinct; dim; (arch.) few; (arch.) a little
ochazuke; rice with tea poured on it
sweet (flavour); sweet (of alcohol); sweet (e.g. melody); pleasant (e.g. atmosphere); suite (of rooms); suite
sweetener (sugar, honey, saccharin, maltose, etc.); sweetening agent; sweetening
prevention; precaution; protection against
intake (e.g. of salt); ingestion; absorption (e.g. of new knowledge); adoption (e.g. of foreign culture); reception and protection
giant; great man; Tokyo Giants (baseball team)
looking or acting as if one owned the place
hard fighting; hard struggle; fighting against heavy odds
catapult; ballista; mangonel; onager; trebuchet
new; neo-; newness; novelty; Gregorian calendar; Xin dynasty (China, 9-23 CE)
tribe; clan; (taxonomical) tribe; group (of the periodic table)
standard item; usual thing; (a) classic; basic item (with stable demand); staple goods
to protrude; to stick out; to be forced out; to be pushed out; to go over (e.g. a budget); to go beyond
to invade; to raid; to infringe; to encroach; to harm; to afflict
to set about in earnest; to put one's back into something
to shut in; to confine; to contain