by connecting beads into a string thereby making the space shorter, shortness of something

a bead string; a jewelled necklace / (figuratively) life, existence / Synonym of 見せばや (misebaya): Siebold's stonecrop (Hylotelephium sieboldii)

to act

action; behavior

a ball / a orb / a sphere / a bead of an abacus / lens / a bullet / an egg, especially of a chicken / a gem, jewel / an object of value / a female entertainer (geisha, prostitute, etc.)

(transitive) pull (something toward oneself) / (transitive) pull (along); drag; drag along; bring along while going somewhere / (transitive) bring (people) in; bring together

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

to be charmed by; to be attracted to; to be drawn in by

(mathematics) minus (subtraction)