 8 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
lean
adjective
1: lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin";
"Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
[syn: {thin}] [ant: {fat}]
2: lacking in mineral content or combustible material; "lean
ore"; "lean fuel" [ant: {rich}]
3: containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy
allowance" [syn: {skimpy}]
4: low in mineral content; "a lean ore"
5: not profitable or prosperous; "a lean year"
noun: 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" [syn: {tilt}, {list}, {inclination},
{leaning}]
verb
1: to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned
over the banister" [syn: {tilt}, {tip}, {slant}, {angle}]
2: cause to lean or incline; "He leaned his rifle against the
wall"
3: 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"
[syn: {tend}, {be given}, {incline}, {run}]
4: rely on for support; "We can lean on this man"
5: cause to lean to the side; "Erosion listed the old tree"
[syn: {list}]
[also: {leant}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lean \Lean\, verb (used with an object) [From {Lean}, verb (used without an object); AS. hl[=ae]nan, verb (used with an object),
fr. hleonian, hlinian, verb (used without an object)]
To cause to lean; to incline; to support or rest. --Mrs.
Browning.
His fainting limbs against an oak he leant. --Dryden.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lean \Lean\ (l[=e]n), adjective [Compar. {Leaner} (l[=e]n"[~e]r);
superl. {Leanest}.] [OE. lene, AS. hl[=ae]ne; prob. akin to
E. lean to incline. See {Lean}, verb (used without an object) ]
1. Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; slim; not
plump; slender; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a
lean cattle.
2. Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or
productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender;
scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and
figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean
discourse; lean wages. ''No lean wardrobe.'' --Shak.
Their lean and flashy songs. --Milton.
What the land is, whether it be fat or lean. --Num.
xiii. 20.
Out of my lean and low ability
I'll lend you something. --Shak.
3. (Typog.) Of a character which prevents the compositor from
earning the usual wages; -- opposed to {fat}; as, lean
copy, matter, or type.
Syn: slender; spare; thin; meager; lank; skinny; gaunt.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lean \Lean\ (l[=e]n), verb (used with an object) [Icel. leyna; akin to G. l["a]ugnen
to deny, AS. l[=y]gnian, also E. lie to speak falsely.]
To conceal. [Obs.] --Ray.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lean \Lean\ (l[=e]n), verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Leaned} (l[=e]nd),
sometimes {Leant} (l[e^]nt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Leaning}.] [OE.
lenen, AS. hlinian, hleonian, verb (used without an object); akin to OS. hlin[=o]n,
D. leunen, OHG. hlin[=e]n, lin[=e]n, G. lehnen, L. inclinare,
Gr. kli'nein, L. clivus hill, slope. [root]40. Cf.
{Declivity}, {Climax}, {Incline}, {Ladder}.]
1. To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to
be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as, she
leaned out at the window; a leaning column. ''He leant
forward.'' --Dickens.
2. To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; --
with to, toward, etc.
They delight rather to lean to their old customs.
--Spenser.
3. To rest or rely, for support, comfort, and the like; --
with on, upon, or against.
He leaned not on his fathers but himself.
--Tennyson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lean \Lean\, noun
1. That part of flesh which consists principally of muscle
without the fat.
The fat was so white and the lean was so ruddy.
--Goldsmith.
2. (Typog.) Unremunerative copy or work.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
242 Moby Thesaurus words for "lean":
Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, acquiesce, agree, angular, angularity,
arid, ascend, ascetic, austere, bad, bald, bank, bare, barren,
be agreeable to, be dying to, be eager, be game, be open to,
be ready, be spoiling for, be willing, believe in, bend, bend to,
bias, bony, candid, cant, careen, climb, collaborate, common,
commonplace, conduce, consent, contribute, cooperate, count on,
cow, curve, decline, deflect, depend on, descend, destitute,
difficult, dip, direct, dispose, divert, drop, dry, dull, dwarfed,
dwarfish, emaciated, endanger, exiguous, fall, fall away, fall off,
favor, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, frank, frighten, frugal,
gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, go, go along with, go downhill,
go uphill, grade, gradient, gravitate, haggard, hard,
have a tendency, head, heel, homely, homespun, imperil,
impoverished, inclination, incline, indigent, infertile,
intimidate, jejune, keel, lank, lanky, lead, lean on, lean towards,
lean-fleshed, lean-looking, leaning, leaning tower, limited, list,
look, look kindly upon, look to, matter-of-fact, meager, mean,
menace, miserly, narrow, natural, neat, necessitous, needy,
niggardly, not hesitate to, open, paltry, parsimonious, penurious,
pinched, pitch, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, plunge,
plunge into, point, point to, poor, poverty-stricken, precipitate,
prefer, pressure, prosaic, prosing, prosy, puny, pure, rake, rangy,
rawboned, recline, redound to, rely on, retreat, rightful, rise,
rustic, scant, scanty, scare, scraggy, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy,
serve, set, set toward, settle, severe, sheer, shelve,
show a tendency, shrunken, sidle, simple, simple-speaking, sink,
skeletal, skimp, skimpy, skinny, slant, slender, slight, slim,
slope, small, sober, spare, sparing, sparse, spidery, spindling,
spindly, stark, starvation, stingy, stinted, straightforward,
straitened, stunted, subside, subsistence, swag, sway, tend,
tend to go, terrify, terrorize, thin, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed,
threaten, tilt, tip, tower of Pisa, trend, trust in, turn, twiggy,
unadorned, unaffected, undersized, underweight, unfruitful,
unimaginative, unnourishing, unnutritious, unpoetical,
unproductive, unvarnished, uprise, verge, warn, warp, wasted,
watered, watery, wiry, work toward, would as leave,
would as lief
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Lean
An experimental language from the {University of Nijmegen} and
{University of East Anglia}, based on graph rewriting and
useful as an intermediate language. Lean is descended from
{Dactl0}.
{Clean} is a subset of Lean.
["Towards an Intermediate Language Based on Graph Rewriting",
H.P. Barendregt et al in PARLE: Parallel Architectures and
Languages Europe, G. Goos ed, LNCS 259, Springer 1987,
pp.159-175].
(1995-01-25)
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