lean

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verb
V_es/s
leans
V_ing/Gerund
leaning
V_ed/pp
leanedleant
  1. 1.

    (intransitive)To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.

    a leaning column

    She leaned out of the window.

  2. 2.

    (copulative)To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.

    I’m leaning towards voting Conservative in the next election.

    The Hispanic vote leans Democratic.

  3. 3.

    (Followed by against, on, or upon) To rest or rely, for support, comfort, to use as a hard surface for writing, etc.

  4. 4.

    To hang outwards.

  5. 5.

    To press against.

  6. 6.

    To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.

    Đồng nghĩa: derich, disenrich

Danh từ

noun
Plural noun:
leans
  1. 1.

    (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.

    The trees had various leans toward gaps in the canopy.

  2. 2.

    (uncountable)Meat with no fat on it.

  3. 3.

    (countable)(countable, biology) An organism that is lean in stature.

    The intermediates and leans are the predominant morphotypes found at the SE-NHR seamounts […]

  4. 4.

    (US, slang, uncountable)(US slang) A recreational drug composed of codeine-promethazine cough syrup mixed with usually soda and associated with the hip-hop culture of the Southern United States.

    Đồng nghĩa: blood, mud, purple drank, sizzurp, snot, syrup

Tính từ

adjective
Comparative
leaner
Superlative
leanest
  1. 1.

    (of a person or animal) Slim; not fleshy.

    Đồng nghĩa: lithe, svelte, willowy, gaunt, gracile, lank, lean, leansome, lithe, lithesome, lissome, rangy, sleek, slender, slight, slim, slinky, svelte, swack, sylphlike, willowy

  2. 2.

    (of meat) Having little fat.

    lean steak cuts

  3. 3.

    Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.

    a lean budget

    a lean harvest

    Đồng nghĩa: insufficient, scarce, sparse, awanting, deficient, dismal, exiguous, geason, inadequate, insufficient, lank, lean, lousy, meager, measly, paltry, poor, raunchy, scant, scantling, scanty, scarce, skimpy, sleazy, slender, spare, sparse, threadbare, unsatisfactory, unsufficient, wanting, wanty

  4. 4.

    Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.

    A lean ore hardly worth mining.

    Running on too lean a fuel-air mixture will cause, among other problems, your internal combustion engine to heat up too much.

    Đồng nghĩa: deficient, dilute, poor

  5. 5.

    (archaic)(printing, archaic) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed to fat.

    lean copy, matter, or type

  6. 6.

    (business) Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing".

    lean management

    lean manufacturing

    Alcoa is now a lean and agile enterprise, after having split last year into two entities.

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ine-pro From Middle English lenen (to lean), from Old English hleonian, hlinian (to lean, recline, lie down, rest), from *hlinēn, from Proto-Germanic *hlināną (to lean, incline), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-.

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