lean

Значение (Английский)

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.

Напротив

rich, enrich

Синонимы

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

Переводы

maigre

magro

mager

s’appuyer

lehnen

pencher

mince

mager

appuyer

delgado

magre

steunen

flaco

neigen

leunen

Произносится как (IPA)

/liːn/

Этимология (Английский)

Унаследовано от среднеанглийский: lenen

Унаследовано от староанглийский: hleonian

Родственно средненидерландский: leunen

Родственно немецкий: lehnen

Унаследовано от среднеанглийский: lene

Унаследовано от староанглийский: hlǣne

Родственно нижненемецкий: leen

Родственно староанглийский: hlinian

Родственно немецкий: 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.