cooking; food preparation
sweet and sour; bittersweet
crisp; crunchy; precise; clipped; brisk
seeing is believing; one eye-witness is better than many hearsays; a picture is worth a thousand words
actually; really; truly; in practice; practically
flat; level; calm; tranquil; relaxed (sitting posture); comfortable
to come alive; to get going; to start to move
handbrake; parking brake; emergency brake
meeting up; gathering; assembly; set
training; drill; practice; discipline
chopping board; cutting board
kitchen knife; carving knife; (arch.) cooking; (arch.) food
to detach; to decapitate; to cut loose; to let loose; to dismember
partition; division; separation; segmenting; splitting
skin; hide; rind; peel; shell; sheath
hard; solid; stiff; tight; strong; firm (not viscous or easily moved); safe
three flat objects (sheets of paper, pieces of cloth, etc.); cutting a fish into two boneless fillets and a piece with the skeleton
to cut up; to cut and discard; to eliminate systematically (in fault-finding); to isolate
to cut into chunks; to chop into lumps
to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
to garnish; to accompany (as a card does a gift); to add to as support; to prop up; to accompany (as an aid, guide, translator, etc.); (arch.) to mimic
very; considerably; by no means; not readily; middle; half-way point
in general; generally; mostly; gist; point; main idea
very highly commended; highly lauded; very well-received; very popular
in front of your nose; right next to you; tip of one's nose
(eating up) quickly; in no time; quickly (sticking out one's tongue); licking; licking up; (peeling off) in one go
to lick; to lap; to taste; to experience (esp. a hardship); to look down on (someone); to make fun of
to be palatable; to suit one's taste
to cut off; to lop off; to prune
daikon (variety of large white Oriental radish, Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus); ham actor
leaf; blade (of grass); (pine) needle
to point; to nominate; to select someone; to identify; to indicate; to play (a game of shogi)
to slide; to slip off; to get dislocated; to be out of alignment; to get dislodged; to deviate
to cure; to heal; to fix; to correct; to do over again; to replace
(for something) to have occurred; to have done (something); (for something) to happen on occasion
a kind; a sort; of sorts; something of a; sort of; somewhat
and the like; such as; or something; something like; I hear that ...; people say that...
to dance (orig. a hopping dance)
exactly; precisely; just; as if; as though; quite
photograph; photo; picture; moving picture; movie
to take (a photo); to record (video, audio, etc.); to make (a film)
such ... as; or some such
to loiter; to putter; to prowl; to wander about; to roam about; to knock around