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

he; boyfriend

pipe / a wind instrument

at best, at most

essence

detailed, conscientious / pure, refined

polishing, refining / care, conscientiousness / something polished or refined, particularly polished white rice / vim and vigor, energy in doing things / life force, vitality, the energy of living

rice polishing, rice milling / polished or milled rice / excellence

(idiomatic) to make up one’s mind, to decide

a pipe or tube, such as that made of bamboo, wood, metal, or rubber / a shuttle for weaving with a loom (from the way the earliest shuttles were made from bamboo tubes)