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lean
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[ verb ] to incline or bend from a vertical position
Examples "She leaned over the banister" Used in print (David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court....)In the Presidential box someone leaned over the balustrade and yelled : `` He has shot the President '' ! (Louis Zara, Dark Rider....)The steeple leaned backward , while the church advanced like a headless creature in a long , shapeless coat . (Bruce Palmer, "My Brother's Keeper", Many Are...)He paced forward unsteadily , leaning too far back , his head tilted oddly . The man leaned his frail body against Watson 's shoulder . (W. H. Gass, "The Pedersen Kid," in The...)I was leaning too far over . |
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[ verb ] cause to lean or incline
Examples "He leaned his rifle against the wall" Used in print (Wayne D. Overholser, The Killer Marshal....)In_any_case , he had no intention of being caught asleep , so he carried his revolver in its holster on his hip and he took his Winchester with him and leaned it against the fence . Leaning his Winchester against the front of the house , he walked to the girl . |
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[ adjective ] lacking excess flesh
Synonyms Examples "you can't be too rich or too thin" "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare Used in print (Jesse Hill Ford, Mountains of Gilead....)She glanced at the man nodding beside her , a man with weather cracks furrowed into his lean cheeks , with powdery pale eyes reflecting all the droughts he had seen , reflecting the sky and the drought which must follow now in August - yes , with eyes predicting the drought and here it was only June , only festival time again and thoughts of Gratt_Shafer would not leave her . |
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[ verb ] have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
Examples "She tends to be nervous before her lectures" "These dresses run small" "He inclined to corpulence" Used in print (Barry Goldwater, "A Foreign Policy for America"...)Indonesia , in the early_days of the Republic , leaned toward the West . Related terms be take_kindly_to gravitate suffer inclination leaning inclination |
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[ verb ] rely on for support
Examples "We can lean on this man" Used in print (The Atlanta Constitution...)Yet we who lean upon such a man and draw strength from him and expect interpretation of the infinite through him - we who readily accept his sacrifice as our due , we of the congregations are the first to tell him what is in our minds instead of listening to what is in his soul . Related terms |
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[ verb ] exhibit an inclination or tendency
Used in print (Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...)I would tell them I got a letter from home stating that five of my Negroes had run_away and ten of Pappies But I wold say I recond he did not mind it for he had a plenty more left and_then they would lean to me like a sore_eyd kitten to a basin of milk '' . Related terms think trust lower attend garden take_kindly_to shepherd attendant inclination |
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[ adjective ] lacking in mineral content or combustible material
Examples "lean ore" "lean fuel" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (metallurgy) low in mineral content
Examples "a lean ore" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] containing little excess
Synonyms Examples "a lean budget" "a skimpy allowance" Related terms |
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[ noun ] Woman's first name, popularity rank in the U.S. is 3628
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 30093
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