Dictionary Entry
lean
lean is a 4-letter English word with 20 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To conceal. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 6 · 20 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To conceal.
- 2intransitive verb
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.
- 3intransitive verb
To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; -- with to, toward, etc.
- 4intransitive verb
To rest or rely, for support, comfort, and the like; -- with on, upon, or against.
- 5intransitive verb
To cause to lean; to incline; to support or rest.
- 6intransitive verb
Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; not plump; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle.
- 7intransitive verb
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.
- 8intransitive verb
Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to fat; as, lean copy, matter, or type.
- 9noun
That part of flesh which consist principally of muscle without the fat.
- 10noun
Unremunerative copy or work.
- 11noun
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"
Synonyms
- 12verb
rely on for support
"We can lean on this man"
- 13verb
cause to lean or incline
"He leaned his rifle against the wall"
- 14verb
to incline or bend from a vertical position
"She leaned over the banister"
- 15verb
cause to lean to the side
"Erosion listed the old tree"
Synonyms
- 16verb
have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
"She tends to be nervous before her lectures"
"These dresses run small"
- 17adjective
lacking excess flesh-Shakespeare
"you can't be too rich or too thin"
"Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"
Synonyms
- 18adjective
not profitable or prosperous
"a lean year"
- 19adjective
lacking in mineral content or combustible material
"lean ore"
"lean fuel"
- 20adjective
containing little excess
"a lean budget"
"a skimpy allowance"
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