Definition of Lean

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Definition of Lean

Lean

To conceal.

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.

To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; -- with to, toward, etc.

To rest or rely, for support, comfort, and the like; -- with on, upon, or against.

To cause to lean; to incline; to support or rest.

Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; not plump; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle.

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.

Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to fat; as, lean copy, matter, or type.

That part of flesh which consist principally of muscle without the fat.

Unremunerative copy or work.

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Lean Quotations

Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything.
Mike Ditka

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
Eleanor Roosevelt

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
Benito Mussolini

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
William Butler Yeats

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Denis Waitley

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
Edmund Burke

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
Black Elk

I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.
Dave Matthews

I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.
Julie Andrews

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
James Thurber

Lean Translations

lean in Afrikaans is maer, dun, skraal
lean in Dutch is steunen, schragen, stutten
lean in Finnish is nojata
lean in French is maigre, adossons, adossent, appuyer, adossez
lean in German is mager, knapp, hager, lehnen
lean in Italian is sostenere, scremato, sporgere
lean in Latin is nitor, macer
lean in Norwegian is helle, lene, tynn, mager
lean in Portuguese is delgado
lean in Spanish is apoyarse, enjuto
lean in Swedish is mager, luta sig

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