際: moment prior to something

takeoff

for an airplane to take off

to board an airplane, to get on board an airplane

boarding, embarkation

gate (door-like structure outside) / boarding gate / (electronics, electrical engineering, computing) gate (part of a transistor, logical pathway, electrical circuit)

an airplane, aeroplane / (obsolete) Clipping of 空中飛行機 (kūchū hikōki): a flying machine

moment prior to something

Bombax ceiba, a species of silk-cotton tree / cotton wool, as opposed to 真綿 (mawata, “silk wadding”)

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