noun:

• meridian; meridian line

noun:

• one face; one surface
• the whole surface
• one aspect; one side

noun / adverbial noun:

• (on) the other hand
• one broad, flat object
• front page (e.g. newspaper)

noun:

• back and front; inside and outside; both sides
• inside out (e.g. clothing)
• double-dealing; two faces (c.f. two-faced) ➜ 表裏
• outward appearance and actual condition; inner workings

noun:

• folding paper-case; kimono wrapping paper
• paper folded and tucked inside the front of one's kimono (esp. for use at the tea ceremony) ➜ 懐紙【かいし】

noun:

• out (in baseball, tennis, etc.) - Sports term

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• outer; external; outside

expression:

• no good; out of line; unacceptable; failure

noun:

• Hikari; high-speed Tōkaidō and Sanyō-line Shinkansen train service (faster than Kodama; slower than Nozomi) ➜ こだま・のぞみ

noun:

• Shonan train; medium-distance train on the eastern Tokaido Main Line (coloured green and orange) - colloquialism

noun:

• byungjin line; North Korean policy of simultaneous development of its economy and nuclear weapons program

noun:

• suitcase; trunk
• trunk (of a car); boot
• (trunk) line

noun:

• uncolored sketch; line sketch; rough sketch ➜ 素描【そびょう】

noun / ~する noun:

• ignoring a text message by leaving it unopened and marked as "unread" (in the chat application LINE) - colloquialism ➜ スルー

noun:

• loop; band; ring

noun / ~する noun:

• loop (programming) - IT term

noun:

• loop (railway line) - abbreviation

noun:

• subject; title
• subject (of an email); subject line

noun:

• ink line; tool for marking long, straight lines on flat surfaces
• inkpot; ink bottle

noun:

• family clan based on the paternal line, sharing the same tomb and performing rituals together (Okinawa)

noun:

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

noun:

• vertical axis; vertical line
• vertical shaft; spindle
• connection between past and present

noun:

• business conditions
• business category; line of business

noun / ~の noun:

• putting one's life on the line; giving everything one has got; acting out of desperation

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to show; to display; to flash
• to dangle (an offer) in front of; to hold out; to indirectly hint at; to intimate; to obliquely suggest; to allude to; to imply
• to send flurries (of snow, etc.)

noun:

• part of the fabric that is tucked closest to the skin when wearing a garment that is wrapped in front of one (such as a kimono) ➜ 上前

noun:

• muscle; tendon; sinew
• vein; artery
• fiber; fibre; string
• line; stripe; streak
• reason; logic ➜ 筋が通る
• plot; storyline
• lineage; descent
• school (e.g. of scholarship or arts)
• aptitude; talent
• source (of information, etc.); circle; channel
• well-informed person (in a transaction)
• logical move (in go, shogi, etc.)
• ninth vertical line - Shōgi term
• seam on a helmet
• gristly fish paste (made of muscle, tendons, skin, etc.) - abbreviation ➜ 筋蒲鉾
• social position; status - archaism

suffix noun / noun / ~の noun:

• on (a river, road, etc.); along

suffix / counter:

• counter for long thin things; counter for roads or blocks when giving directions
• (Edo period) counter for hundreds of mon (obsolete unit of currency) - archaism

noun:

• firing line; position where one is subject to questioning, criticism, etc. ➜ 矢面に立つ
• direction of a flying arrow (fired by the enemy) - orig. meaning

noun:

• line symmetry; reflection symmetry; axial symmetry

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be onto a good thing; to make money without working; to line one's pockets - idiom