medical apparatus; medical instruments
exhaust; emission (of gas from an engine); expulsion (of air); ventilation
creeping; crawling; sneaking
not worth doing; waste of effort
walking speed; walking pace
freedom; free man; free woman
stock; inventory; stocking up (e.g. on food); (soup) stock; stock; share; stock (point-in-time economic quantity)
circuit; cycle (e.g. Krebs cycle); cycle; loop
mechanism; mechanical parts; jack-in-the-box
used (ticket, stamp, etc.); spent (fuel, battery, etc.)
key; mode (in gagaku); time; tempo; meter (of a poem); metre; style
in spite of; despite; although; nonetheless; nevertheless; but
cigarette end; cigarette butt
feeling of vitality; sense of being alive
(not) necessarily; (not) entirely; (not) altogether
dream within a dream; (beyond) one's wildest dreams; entirely unrealizable dream; pie in the sky
power; motive power; three-phase electricity
receiving an electric shock
copy; photocopy; book jacket blurb; (advertising) slogan
to cool (e.g. from a high temperature to room temperature); to let cool; to dampen; to throw a damper on; to spoil
relatively hot; fairly hot
column; beam; girder; digit; decade; order of magnitude
sounding each other out; probing each other
powerfully; vigorously; with all one's strength; lots of; heaps of; plenty
tasteless and odorless; bland
imitation; counterfeit; fake; replica
hypothesis; supposition; assumption; tentative theory
look; appearance; spectacle; sight; observation meditation; outlook on ...
high and low (social standing)
glass sphere; glass bead; glass marble
to slip out (of words, remarks, etc.); to pour from one's lips; to blurt out
concreteness; embodiment; expressing concretely
pseudo; quasi; artificial; simulated
non-recoverable; unrecoverable; irreparable; irreversible; irretrievable