Dictionary Definition
lean adj
1 lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or
too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
[syn: thin] [ant: fat]
2 lacking in mineral content or combustible
material; "lean ore"; "lean fuel" [ant: rich]
3 containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a
skimpy allowance" [syn: skimpy]
4 low in mineral content; "a lean ore"
5 not profitable or prosperous; "a lean year" n :
the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the
vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a
list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the
right" [syn: tilt, list, inclination, leaning]
Verb
1 to incline or bend from a vertical position;
"She leaned over the banister" [syn: tilt, tip, slant, angle]
2 cause to lean or incline; "He leaned his rifle
against the wall"
3 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"
[syn: tend, be given,
incline, run]
4 rely on for support; "We can lean on this
man"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- , /liːn/, /li:n/
Etymology 1
hleonian (to bend, to recline, to lie down, to rest).Translations
to hang outwards
to press against
- ttbc Indonesian: memiringkan, menyandar
- ttbc Japanese: 傾ける (かたむける, katamukeru)
Etymology 2
Old English hlæne.Etymology
FromExtensive Definition
Lean or LEAN may refer to:
- Louisiana Environmental Action Network
- Lean, also called "purple drank," "sizzurp," or "syrup," a recreational drug based on cough syrup that is popular in the hip-hop community of the Southern United States
- Lean Laboratory, one which is focused on testing products and materials to deliver results in the most efficient way
- Lean manufacturing, process management philosophy
- Lean software development, a translation of lean manufacturing principles to software development
- Lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush), a freshwater char living mainly in lakes in northern North America
lean in German: Lean
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Lenten,
Spartan, abstemious, acquiesce, agree, angular, angularity, arid, ascend, ascetic, austere, bad, bald, bank, bare, barren, be agreeable to, be dying
to, be eager, be game, be open to, be ready, be spoiling for, be
willing, believe in, bend,
bend to, bias, bony, candid, cant, careen, climb, collaborate, common, commonplace, conduce, consent, contribute, cooperate, count on, cow, curve, decline, deflect, depend on, descend, destitute, difficult, dip, direct, dispose, divert, drop, dry, dull, dwarfed, dwarfish, emaciated, endanger, exiguous, fall, fall away, fall off, favor, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, frank, frighten, frugal, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, go, go along with, go downhill, go
uphill, grade, gradient, gravitate, haggard, hard, have a tendency, head, heel, homely, homespun, imperil, impoverished, inclination, incline, indigent, infertile, intimidate, jejune, keel, lank, lanky, lead, lean on, lean towards,
lean-fleshed, lean-looking, leaning, leaning tower, limited, list, look, look kindly upon, look to,
matter-of-fact, meager,
mean, menace, miserly, narrow, natural, neat, necessitous, needy, niggardly, not hesitate to,
open, paltry, parsimonious, penurious, pinched, pitch, plain, plain-speaking,
plain-spoken, plunge,
plunge into, point, point
to, poor, poverty-stricken,
precipitate,
prefer, pressure, prosaic, prosing, prosy, puny, pure, rake, rangy, rawboned, recline, redound to, rely on,
retreat, rightful, rise, rustic, scant, scanty, scare, scraggy, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, serve, set, set toward, settle, severe, sheer, shelve, show a tendency, shrunken, sidle, simple, simple-speaking, sink, skeletal, skimp, skimpy, skinny, slant, slender, slight, slim, slope, small, sober, spare, sparing, sparse, spidery, spindling, spindly, stark, starvation, stingy, stinted, straightforward,
straitened, stunted, subside, subsistence, swag, sway, tend, tend to go, terrify, terrorize, thin, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed,
threaten, tilt, tip, tower of Pisa, trend, trust in, turn, twiggy, unadorned, unaffected, undersized, underweight, unfruitful, unimaginative, unnourishing, unnutritious, unpoetical, unproductive, unvarnished, uprise, verge, warn, warp, wasted, watered, watery, wiry, work toward, would as leave,
would as lief