noun:

• soot on the bottom of a pot or pan

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to skip out on one's bar bill
• to drink oneself to ruin; to drink everything vigorously; to get wasted ➜ 飲み潰す【のみつぶす】

noun:

• hidden line elimination - IT term

adverb / noun:

• on the same night

noun:

• line progression - IT term

noun:

• reference line - IT term

adverb:

• on rare occasions; once in a blue moon

ichidan verb:

• to carry on; to go on with one's life
• to keep alive; to stay alive; to survive

noun:

• Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony

noun:

• Round Table Conference on Rice Price

expression / noun:

• star seen on a rainy night; "rare occurrence" [figurative]; "rare sight" [figurative] ➜ 雨夜

noun:

• communication line - IT term

adjectival noun / noun:

• not to be depended on; of little hope

noun:

• ban on entering a building, venue, etc. - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ 出入り禁止【でいりきんし】

noun:

• United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea - obscure term ➜ 国連海洋法条約

noun:

• mirror-shaped mochi, usu. a pair stacked in order of size with a daidai on top, used as a New Year offering, then cut and eaten on January 11.

noun:

• on par (in golf, meeting par for that hole) - From English "par on"

noun:

• bath heated directly from beneath, with a floating wooden lid on which the bather sits causing it to sink (named after the robber Goemon Ishikawa, who was boiled to death in one)

expression:

• with the skin on; skin and all (fruit, potato, etc.) ➜ 共【ごと】

noun:

• adding a product line or department to improve a store's performance - From English "line robbing"

expression / godan -いく／-ゆく verb (spec.):

• to be on the right track; to go well ➜ いい線行く【いいせんいく】

noun:

• red line
• red-light district - abbreviation ➜ 赤線地帯・赤線区域

~の noun / adjectival noun:

• on the cheap side; comparatively cheap ➜ 高め【たかめ】

noun:

• wait tile which produces a winning hand with a lower score - Mahjong term

noun:

• rice gruel traditionally eaten on the 7th day of the new year containing the seven plants of spring

noun:

• ABCD line; embargoes against Japan by America, Britain, China, and the Dutch starting in 1940