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Adjective lean has 5 senses
- thin, lean - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
- lean - lacking in mineral content or combustible material; "lean ore"; "lean fuel"
Antonym: rich
- lean, skimpy - containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"
Antonym: sufficient (indirect, via insufficient)
- lean - low in mineral content; "a lean ore"
Antonym: sufficient (indirect, via insufficient)
- lean - not profitable or prosperous; "a lean year"
Antonym: profitable (indirect, via unprofitable)
Noun lean has 1 sense
- tilt, list, inclination, lean, leaning - 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"
--1 is a kind of position, spatial relation
Verb lean has 5 senses
- lean, tilt, tip, slant, angle - to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over the banister"
--1 is one way to bend, flex
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- lean - cause to lean or incline; "He leaned his rifle against the wall"
--2 is one way to put, set, place, pose, position, lay
Sample sentence:
They lean their rifles on the cabinet
- tend, be given, lean, incline, run - 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"
--3 is one way to be
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
- lean - rely on for support; "We can lean on this man"
--4 is one way to trust, swear, rely, bank
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- list, lean - cause to lean to the side; "Erosion listed the old tree"
--5 is one way to move
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
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