lean | |
1. v. 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. v. To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; with to, toward, etc. | |
I'm leaning towards voting Conservative in the next election. | |
3. v. To rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.; with on, upon, or against. | |
4. v. To hang outwards. | |
5. v. To press against. | |
6. n. (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. | |
7. adj. (of a person or animal) slim; not fleshy. | |
8. adj. (of meat) having little fat. | |
9. adj. Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre. | |
a lean budget; a lean harvest | |
10. adj. 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. | |
11. adj. (printing, archaic) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed to fat. | |
lean copy, matter, or type | |
12. adj. efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing". | |
lean accounting, lean approach, lean champion, lean implementation, lean leadership, lean management, lean manufacturing, lean methods, lean principles, lean production, lean processes, lean se | |
Alcoa is now a lean and agile enterprise, after having split last year into two entities. | |
13. n. Meat with no fat on it. | |
14. v. To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen. | |
15. v. To conceal. | |
16. n. (slang) A recreational drug based on codeine-laced promethazine cough syrup, popular in the hip hop community in the southeastern United States. | |