lean

(Inglés)

Verb

1. (intransitive) To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
2. (copulative) To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.
3. To rest or rely, for support, comfort, to use as a hard surface for writing, etc.
4. To hang outwards.
5. To press against.

Noun

An inclination away from the vertical.

Adj

1. Slim; not fleshy.
2. Having little fat.
3. Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
4. Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
5. (archaic) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed to fat.
6. Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing".

Noun

1. (uncountable) Meat with no fat on it.
2. (countable) An organism that is lean in stature.

Noun

A recreational drug based on codeine-laced promethazine cough syrup, especially popular in the hip hop community in the southeastern United States.

Opuesto a

rich, enrich

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/liːn/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: lenen

Heredado de inglés antiguo: hleonian

Cognado con neerlandés medio: leunen

Cognado con alemán: lehnen

Heredado de inglés medio: lene

Heredado de inglés antiguo: hlǣne

Cognado con bajo alemán: leen

Cognado con inglés antiguo: hlinian

Cognado con alemán: leugnen

In summary

From Middle English lenen (“to lean”), from Old English hleonian, hlinian (“to lean, recline, lie down, rest”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlinēn, from Proto-Germanic *hlināną (“to lean, incline”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-.
Cognate via Proto-Germanic with Middle Dutch leunen (“to lean”), German lehnen (“to lean”); via Proto-Indo-European with climate, cline.

Conceptos

delgado

flaco

apoyar

magro

inclinarse

apoyarse

acodar

escaso

inclinar

recostarse

ladear

acurrucarse

flamenco

declinar

descansar

difícil

pobre

reclinarse

tender

adosar

arrimar

desplomarse

enjuto

reclinar

volcar

estéril

acodarse

delgado en animales

ajustado

esbelto

macilenta

asomarse

cadavérico

demacrado

descarnado

demacrada

enflaquecido

sobreoxigenado

esquelético

exiguo

inclinación

infecundo

delgada

ladearse

macilento

débil

pilongo

propender

recargar

tener inclinación

Sinónimos

thin

incline

skinny

emaciated

gaunt

tilt

slant

slender

slim

meager

bend

slope

meagre

support

stoop

list

skimpy

sustain

tip

weak

scrawny

rest

bend down

recline

spare

lank

poor

prop

tend

lean on

lean against

bony

scanty

sparse

leaning

inclination

bow

🙇

bend over

withered

run

angle

rawboned

be given

cant

duck

🦆

dry out

stand

lanky

dip

heel