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Definisjon av lean

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Verb
lean - to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over the banister"
tilt, tip, slant, angle
flex, bend cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form; "bend the rod"; "twist the dough into a braid"; "the strong man could turn an iron bar"
knock over, bowl over, tip over, tump over, overturn, upset, turn over turn from an upright or normal position; "The big vase overturned"; "The canoe tumped over"
tip over, tump over, overturn, turn over turn from an upright or normal position; "The big vase overturned"; "The canoe tumped over"
lean against, lean on, rest on rest on for support; "you can lean on me if you get tired"
slope, incline, pitch be at an angle; "The terrain sloped down"
weather change under the action or influence of the weather; "A weathered old hut"
heel, list put a new heel on; "heel shoes"
lean back, recline move the upper body backwards and down
lean - cause to lean or incline; "He leaned his rifle against the wall"
position, lay, pose, put, place, set cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation
lean - rely on for support; "We can lean on this man"
rely, swear, trust, bank promise solemnly; take an oath
lean - 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"
tend, be given, incline, run
be spend or use time; "I may be an hour"
take kindly to be willing or inclined to accept; "He did not take kindly to my critical remarks"
suffer feel pain or be in pain
gravitate move due to the pull of gravitation; "The stars gravitate towards each other"
lean - cause to lean to the side; "Erosion listed the old tree"
list
heel, list put a new heel on; "heel shoes"
move go or proceed from one point to another; "the debate moved from family values to the economy"

Adjective
lean - not profitable or prosperous; "a lean year"
unprofitable producing little or no profit or gain; "deposits abandoned by mining companies as unprofitable"
lean - lacking in mineral content or combustible material; "lean ore"; "lean fuel"
lean - containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"
skimpy
insufficient, deficient of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement; "insufficient funds"
lean - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
thin
fat having an (over)abundance of flesh; "he hadn't remembered how fat she was"
ectomorphic having a build with little fat or muscle but with long limbs
thin lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
body weight the weight of a person's body
anorexic, anorectic suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin
emaciated, gaunt, cadaverous, haggard, skeletal, bony, pinched, wasted of or relating to a cadaver or corpse; "we had long anticipated his cadaverous end"
deep-eyed, hollow-eyed, sunken-eyed characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver
gangling, gangly, lanky tall and thin
spindly, lank long and lean
rawboned having a lean and bony physique; "a rawboned cow hand"
reedlike, reedy resembling a reed in being upright and slender
twiggy, twiglike thin as a twig
scarecrowish resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged; "a forlorn scarecrowish figure"
underweight, boney, scraggy, scrawny, weedy, skinny being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"
wizen, wizened, shrunken, withered, shriveled, shrivelled reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity; "our shriveled receipts during the storm"; "as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled"; "the dollar's shrunken buying power"
slim, slight, svelte, slender being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street"
slender-waisted, slim-waisted, wasp-waisted having a small waist
trim, spare thin and fit; "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise"
spindle-legged, spindle-shanked having long slender legs
wiry, stringy of hair that resembles wire in stiffness; "wiry red hair"
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Verb
lean - To hang outwards.
lean - To press against.
lean - To thin out a fuel-air mixture: to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.

Adjektiv
lean - slim; not fleshy.
lean - Having little fat.
lean - Having little extra or little to spare.
lean - 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.

OmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

  • lean
    (Of a person or animal) Narrow in size, and usually indicating carrying little fat.

Adjektiv - Gradbøying

  • Positiv: lean
  • Komparativ: leaner / more lean
  • Superlativ: leanest / most lean

Verb

  • Infinitiv: (to) lean
  • Presens: lean / leans
  • Preteritum: leaned
  • Perfektum: (have) leaned

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