to make [something] / to cook / to write a literary work / to grow, to raise / to cultivate ability, to train / to draw up, form, establish / to make an acquaintance

作る: make - make a small thing, grow vegetables / 創る: create - originate, bring into existence / 造る: build, construct - build a house, or a building

to use / to employ / to make use of, to apply / to spend

soap

相島: a surname

(Shizuoka, Yamanashi) heel

something rotten or broken: trash, garbage, waste, dross / (by extension) something worthless

lye, originally the clear alkaline liquid left after leaching wood ash in water / scum, the coagulated proteins and fats that gather on the surface of a pot of boiling food

(idiomatic, especially a child) to be on the verge of tears

use one thing for many purposes / work someone hard