Dictionary entry

Leanness

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Definition

lean 1 /li:n / v ( pt, pp leant / lent /or leaned /li:nd/) ၁။ ယိုင္သည္။ ကိုင္းၫြတ္သည္။ မီွသည္။ the leaning tower of Pisa ❍ lean out of the window. ျပတင္းေပါက္မွ ကဲၾကည့္သည္။ ❍ He leaned back in his chair. ၂။ ~ against / on / upon sth မီွသည္။ ေထာက္သည္။ a ladder leaning against the wall ❍ lean on sb’s arm/ one’s elbows ❍ The old man leant upon his stick. ၃။ ~ sth against / on sth ေထာင္သည္။ မီွသည္။ The workmen leant their shovels against the fence and went to lunch. ❏ leaning n ယိမ္းယိုင္ျခင္း။ have a leaning towards socialism / have socialist leanings. ❏ lean on sb [ PHRV ] ( infml esp US ) ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္သည္။ အၾကမ္းကိုင္သည္။ If he doesn’t pay soon we’ll have to lean on him a little. ❏ lean on / upon sb/sth (for sth) [ PHRV ] အားကိုးသည္။ lean upon others for guidance ❍ I need a comforting shoulder to lean on. ❏ lean-to / 'li:n tu: / ( pl -tos / -tu:z / ) n အဖီ။ They keep hens in a lean-to at the end of the garden. ❍ a lean-to garage. ❏ lean to / towards sth [ PHRV ] ယိမ္းယိုင္သည္။ Her political views lean to wards the left. lean 2 / li:n / adj ( -er, -est ) ၁။ က်စ္လ်စ္ေသာ။ a lean athletic body. ❍ THIN ၂။ အဆီနည္းေသာ။ lean beef. ၃။ (က) ညံ့ေသာ။ အထြက္နည္းေသာ။ a lean diet / harvest. (ခ) ခ်ဳိ႕ငဲ့ ေသာ။ lean years ❍ Last season’s leading goal-scorer, he’s having a lean time (of it) this year. n [U] အသား။ a lot of fat and not much lean. leanness / 'li:nnǝs / n [U]

Examples

  1. [lean forward/back/towards/across etc] : The other girl leaned forward to hear what was going on.
  2. I leaned over her shoulder to study the maps spread out on the table.
  3. Bigelow leaned across the desk and lowered his voice.
  4. Two of the walls lean slightly inwards.
  5. [lean against] : Corey leaned against the apple tree.
  6. [lean on] : He walked in
  7. leaning heavily on a cane.
  8. [lean something against something] : John leaned his rake against the side of the barn.
  9. [lean towards/to/in favour of] : She is leaning towards supporting military action.
  10. The board of directors is leaning in favour of supporting the merger.
  11. [lean in the direction of something] : The decision to increase the budget hasn’t been made
  12. but the committee is leaning in that direction.