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lean::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | thin |
| Derivation | leanness |
Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
lean::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | inclination, leaning, list, tilt |
| Type of | position, spatial relation |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Derivation | leanness |
a lean year.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Derivation | leanness |
lean ore.
lean fuel.
Examples of lean
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The lean times at Sky Star are echoed by Iranian-linked businesses across Dubai.
From the sacbee.com
If you can't find slab bacon, substitute an equal amount of lean Canadian bacon.
From the ocregister.com
Fields is lean and fit, and his Zen-like exterior masks his fierceness in court.
From the cnn.com
Women on oral contraceptives tend to increase fat and decrease lean muscle mass.
From the latimes.com
Iger has some Internet talent on his board to lean on as he makes digital deals.
From the businessweek.com
Then lean back, raise your feet higher and tap up and down for a kind of crunch.
From the washingtonpost.com
That's right, they were billed as being lean and mean, no wasteful soft centers.
From the news-journalonline.com
I agree very much that TQM and then LEAN have failed to fix anything in the USA.
From the forbes.com
At any other show, they adopt a serious forward lean and charge down the runway.
From the nzherald.co.nz
- Thin: lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
- Tilt: 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"
- To incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over the banister"
- Cause to lean or incline; "He leaned his rifle against the wall"
- Lacking in mineral content or combustible material; "lean ore"; "lean fuel"
- Containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"
- The use of wine tasting descriptors allow the taster an opportunity to put into words the aromas and flavors that they experience and can be used in assessing the overall quality of wine. ...
- To hang outwards; To press against; slim; not fleshy; having little fat; Having little extra or little to spare; Of a fuel-air mixture, having more air than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; more air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction
- Leanness means designing the system so that it has no extra parts (Wirth 1995, McConnell 1997). Voltaire said that a book is finished not when nothing more can be added but when nothing more can be taken away. ...
