lean

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

maigre

s’appuyer

pencher

mince

appuyer

incliner

accoter

appuyer sur

se pencher

maigrir

s’adosser

amaigri

inclination

serré

s’accoter

pauvre

liste

tordre

hâve

s’appuyer sur

sans graisse

inclinaison

pente

adosser

à gros os

appuyé

décharné

donner de la bande

efflanqué

émincé

faire maigrir

famélique

gîter

maigrelet

nerveuse

osseuse

plein d’arêtes

se concentrer sur

s’incliner

être corrompu

être injuste

être partial

prendre partie pour

cadavéreux

devenir maigre

aux gros os

plein d’os

s'appuyer

décharnée

efflanquée

Opposé de

rich, enrich

Synonymes

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

Traductions

magro

mager

lehnen

mager

delgado

magre

flaco

steunen

neigen

apoyar

appoggiare

leunen

magro

anlehnen

stützen

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/liːn/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: lenen

Hérité de ancien anglais: hleonian

Appartenant à moyen néerlandais: leunen

Appartenant à allemand: lehnen

Hérité de moyen anglais: lene

Hérité de ancien anglais: hlǣne

Appartenant à bas-allemand: leen

Appartenant à ancien anglais: hlinian

Appartenant à allemand: 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.