Lean

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.

   “a leaning column”

2. fiil To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.

   “I’m leaning towards voting Conservative in the next election.”

3. fiil To rest or rely, for support, comfort, to use as a hard surface for writing, etc.

   “He lean'd not on his fathers but himself.”

4. fiil To hang outwards.
5. fiil To press against.

   “Oppreſs'd with Anguiſh, panting, and o'reſpent, / His fainting Limbs against an Oak he leant.”

6. isim An inclination away from the vertical.

   “The trees had various leans toward gaps in the canopy.”

7. sıfat Slim; not fleshy.

   “They will now dedicate several hours at the gym every day to be leaner and stronger.”

8. sıfat Having little fat.

   “lean steak cuts”

9. sıfat Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.

   “a lean budget”

10. sıfat Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.

    “A lean ore hardly worth mining.”

11. sıfat Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed to fat.

    “lean copy, matter, or type”

12. sıfat Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing".

    “lean management”

13. isim Meat with no fat on it.

    “Jack Sprat would eat no fat, / His wife would eat no lean.”

14. isim An organism that is lean in stature.

    “The intermediates and leans are the predominant morphotypes found at the SE-NHR seamounts […]”

15. fiil To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.

    “He leaned the mixture in an effort to cause a backfire through the carburetor, the generally accepted method of breaking the ice loose.”

16. isim A recreational drug composed of codeine-promethazine cough syrup mixed with usually soda and associated with the hip-hop culture of the Southern United States.

    “Eyes real tight 'cause I'm chokin' the creep; vision messed up 'cause I'm drinkin' the lean.”

17. özel isim A surname.