lean
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Động từ
verb- 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.
(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.
(Followed by against, on, or upon) To rest or rely, for support, comfort, to use as a hard surface for writing, etc.
- 4.
To hang outwards.
- 5.
To press against.
- 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- 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.
(uncountable)Meat with no fat on it.
- 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.
(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- 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.
(of meat) Having little fat.
lean steak cuts
- 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.
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.
(archaic)(printing, archaic) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed to fat.
lean copy, matter, or type
- 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-.