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Bookmark or Share- LEAN | English meaning - Cambridge DictionaryLeanness means eliminating all waste, including time, and ensuring a smooth and predictable output. I leaned out of window for fresh air. He too leans beside me, watching me write. One miniature fresco fragment shows a woman, perhaps a priestess, leaning rail; behind her is a net hanging across a window.
- Lean - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.comThe famous Tower of Pisa leans at an angle of about 4 degrees. As an adjective, we use lean to describe something skimpy or lacking excess flesh. When you're experiencing financial difficulty, you could say you're going through lean (not prosperous) times.
- LEAN Synonyms: 158 Similar and Opposite Words - Merriam-WebsterSome common synonyms of lean are gaunt, lanky, lank, rawboned, scrawny, skinny, and spare. While all these words mean "thin because of an absence of excess flesh," lean stresses lack of fat and of curving contours. When is gaunt a more appropriate choice than lean?
- Lean Definition & Meaning | Britannica Dictionarylean, thin, and skinny mean not having much fat on the body. lean suggests a lack of unnecessary fat and may also suggest the muscular body of an athlete. thin can describe a person whose lack of fat is unhealthy, but it also often describes a person who is considered attractive. The room was full of beautiful thin women.
- LEAN definition and meaning | Collins English DictionaryBritish English uses either leaned or leant. When you lean in a particular direction, you bend your body in that direction. Eileen leaned across and opened the passenger door. [VERB adverb/preposition] He leaned forward to give her a kiss. [VERB adverb/preposition] They stopped to lean over a gate. [VERB adverb/preposition]
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