lean : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: lean	by the DICT Development Group
7 results for lean
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lean adj lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare Synonym(s): thin, lean Antonym(s): fat lacking in mineral content or combustible material; "lean ore"; "lean fuel" Antonym(s): rich containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance" Synonym(s): lean, skimpy not profitable or prosperous; "a lean year" n 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" Synonym(s): tilt, list, inclination, lean, leaning v to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over the banister" Synonym(s): lean, tilt, tip, slant, angle cause to lean or incline; "He leaned his rifle against the wall" 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" Synonym(s): tend, be given, lean, incline, run rely on for support; "We can lean on this man" cause to lean to the side; "Erosion listed the old tree" Synonym(s): list, lean
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lean \Lean\ (l[emac]n), a. [Compar. {Leaner} (l[emac]n"[etil]r); superl. {Leanest}.] [OE. lene, AS. hl[aemac]ne; prob. akin to E. lean to incline. See {Lean}, v. i. ] 1. Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; not plump; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle. 2. Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages. [bd]No lean wardrobe.[b8] --Shak. Their lean and fiashy songs. --Milton. What the land is, whether it be fat or lean. --Num. xiii. 20. Out of my lean and low ability I'll lend you something. --Shak. 3. (Typog.) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to {fat}; as, lean copy, matter, or type. Syn: slender; spare; thin; meager; lank; skinny; gaunt.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lean \Lean\ (l[emac]n), v. t. [Icel. leyna; akin to G. l[84]ugnen to deny, AS. l[ymac]gnian, also E. lie to speak falsely.] To conceal. [Obs.] --Ray.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lean \Lean\ (l[emac]n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Leaned} (l[emac]nd), sometimes {Leant} (l[ecr]nt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Leaning}.] [OE. lenen, AS. hlinian, hleonian, v. i.; akin to OS. hlin[d3]n, D. leunen, OHG. hlin[c7]n, lin[c7]n, G. lehnen, L. inclinare, Gr. kli`nein, L. clivus hill, slope. [root]40. Cf. {Declivity}, {Climax}, {Incline}, {Ladder}.] 1. To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as, she leaned out at the window; a leaning column. [bd]He leant forward.[b8] --Dickens. 2. To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; -- with to, toward, etc. They delight rather to lean to their old customs. --Spenser. 3. To rest or rely, for support, comfort, and the like; -- with on, upon, or against. He leaned not on his fathers but himself. --Tennyson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lean \Lean\, n. 1. That part of flesh which consist principally of muscle without the fat. The fat was so white and the lean was so ruddy. --Goldsmith. 2. (Typog.) Unremunerative copy or work.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lean \Lean\, v. t. [From {Lean}, v. i.; AS. hl[aemac]nan, v. t., fr. hleonian, hlinian, v. i.] To cause to lean; to incline; to support or rest. --Mrs. Browning. His fainting limbs against an oak he leant. --Dryden.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Lean An experimental language from the {University of Nijmegen} and {University of East Anglia}, based on graph rewriting and useful as an intermediate language. Lean is descended from {Dactl0}. {Clean} is a subset of Lean. ["Towards an Intermediate Language Based on Graph Rewriting", H.P. Barendregt et al in PARLE: Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe, G. Goos ed, LNCS 259, Springer 1987, pp.159-175]. (1995-01-25)