0 to (cause to) slope in one direction, or to move the top part of the body in a particular direction: --
1 Lean meat has little fat. --
lean and fit
2 If a period of time is lean, there is not enough of something, especially money or food, at that time: --
It has been a particularly lean year for the education department.
3 A lean company or organization does not use too many people or spend too much money, so that there is no waste: --
Nowadays even efficient, lean, well-run industries are failing.
4 to move your body away from a vertical position so that it is bent forward or resting against something, or to place something in a sloping position against something: --
There are fleeting moments where fragments become phonemes and a vowel sound leans towards the possibility of speech.
There is a high prevalence of leaning trees in the study area that have either resprouted or undergone turning up.
A resprouting but leaning stem gives up canopy space whereas a reoriented stem that turns upward can reclaim canopy space.
Linear regression was used to analyse the relationship between leaning, turning up, resprouting, dead primary stem and the abundance of individuals in the forest.
One of those things just leaning out of the window, trying to free itself so it can fly above the trees.
Indeed, the political empowerment of previously disenfranchised groups makes them a more permanent and potent force leaning against reversal.
The young man leans for ward to ask the old man what time it is, but the old man does not answer.
What video games have to teach us about leaning and literacy.
