Definition of lean Lean
/liˈn/ - [leen] - lean
We found 31 definitions of lean from 7 different sources.
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| lean - to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over the banister" | ||
| tilt, tip, slant, angle | ||
| flex, bend cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form; "bend the rod"; "twist the dough into a braid"; "the strong man could turn an iron bar" | ||
| knock over, bowl over, tip over, tump over, overturn, upset, turn over turn from an upright or normal position; "The big vase overturned"; "The canoe tumped over" | ||
| tip over, tump over, overturn, turn over turn from an upright or normal position; "The big vase overturned"; "The canoe tumped over" | ||
| lean against, lean on, rest on rest on for support; "you can lean on me if you get tired" | ||
| slope, incline, pitch be at an angle; "The terrain sloped down" | ||
| weather change under the action or influence of the weather; "A weathered old hut" | ||
| heel, list put a new heel on; "heel shoes" | ||
| lean back, recline move the upper body backwards and down | ||
| lean - cause to lean or incline; "He leaned his rifle against the wall" | ||
| position, lay, pose, put, place, set cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation | ||
| lean - rely on for support; "We can lean on this man" | ||
| rely, swear, trust, bank promise solemnly; take an oath | ||
| lean - have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined; "She tends to be nervous before her lectures"; "These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence" | ||
| tend, be given, incline, run | ||
| be spend or use time; "I may be an hour" | ||
| take kindly to be willing or inclined to accept; "He did not take kindly to my critical remarks" | ||
| suffer feel pain or be in pain | ||
| gravitate move due to the pull of gravitation; "The stars gravitate towards each other" | ||
| lean - cause to lean to the side; "Erosion listed the old tree" | ||
| list | ||
| heel, list put a new heel on; "heel shoes" | ||
| move go or proceed from one point to another; "the debate moved from family values to the economy" | ||
Adjectivelean, leaner, leanest |
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| lean - not profitable or prosperous; "a lean year" | ||
| unprofitable producing little or no profit or gain; "deposits abandoned by mining companies as unprofitable" | ||
| lean - lacking in mineral content or combustible material; "lean ore"; "lean fuel" | ||
| lean - containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance" | ||
| skimpy | ||
| insufficient, deficient of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement; "insufficient funds" | ||
| lean - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare | ||
| thin | ||
| fat having an (over)abundance of flesh; "he hadn't remembered how fat she was" | ||
| ectomorphic having a build with little fat or muscle but with long limbs | ||
| thin lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare | ||
| body weight the weight of a person's body | ||
| anorexic, anorectic suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin | ||
| emaciated, gaunt, cadaverous, haggard, skeletal, bony, pinched, wasted of or relating to a cadaver or corpse; "we had long anticipated his cadaverous end" | ||
| deep-eyed, hollow-eyed, sunken-eyed characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver | ||
| gangling, gangly, lanky tall and thin | ||
| spindly, lank long and lean | ||
| rawboned having a lean and bony physique; "a rawboned cow hand" | ||
| reedlike, reedy resembling a reed in being upright and slender | ||
| twiggy, twiglike thin as a twig | ||
| scarecrowish resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged; "a forlorn scarecrowish figure" | ||
| underweight, boney, scraggy, scrawny, weedy, skinny being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck" | ||
| wizen, wizened, shrunken, withered, shriveled, shrivelled reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity; "our shriveled receipts during the storm"; "as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled"; "the dollar's shrunken buying power" | ||
| slim, slight, svelte, slender being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street" | ||
| slender-waisted, slim-waisted, wasp-waisted having a small waist | ||
| trim, spare thin and fit; "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise" | ||
| spindle-legged, spindle-shanked having long slender legs | ||
| wiry, stringy of hair that resembles wire in stiffness; "wiry red hair" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- lean (Verb)
To hang outwards. - lean (Verb)
To press against. - lean (Verb)
To thin out a fuel-air mixture: to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen. - lean (Adjective)
slim; not fleshy. - lean (Adjective)
Having little fat. - lean (Adjective)
Having little extra or little to spare. - lean (Adjective)
Of a fuel-air mixture, having more air than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; more air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- lean (v. t.)
To conceal. - lean (v. i.)
To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as, she leaned out at the window; a leaning column. - lean (v. i.)
To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; -- with to, toward, etc. - lean (v. i.)
To rest or rely, for support, comfort, and the like; -- with on, upon, or against. - lean (v. i.)
To cause to lean; to incline; to support or rest. - lean (v. i.)
Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; not plump; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle. - lean (v. i.)
Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages. - lean (v. i.)
Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to fat; as, lean copy, matter, or type. - lean (n.)
That part of flesh which consist principally of muscle without the fat. - lean (n.)
Unremunerative copy or work.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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lean
(Of a person or animal) Narrow in size, and usually indicating carrying little fat.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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lean
lēn, v.i. to incline or bend: to turn from a straight line: to rest against: to incline towards:—pr.p. lean′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. leaned or leant (lent).—n. Lean′-to, a shed or penthouse whose supports lean upon another building or wall. [A.S. hlinian, and causal form hlǽnan; Dut. leunen.] -
lean
lēn, adj. thin, wanting flesh: not fat: unprofitable, taking extra time—a printer's phrase.—n. flesh without fat.—adj. Lean′-faced, having a thin face: (print.) slender and narrow, as letters.—adv. Lean′ly.—n. Lean′ness.—adj. Lean′-wit′ted, of little sense. [A.S. hlǽne; Low Ger. leen; according to Skeat, from hlǽnan, to lean (above).]
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lean
Used in the same sense as clean or sharp; the reverse of full or bluff in the form of a ship.
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