verb, leaned or (especially British
) leant; lean⋅ing; noun | 1. | to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window. |
| 2. | to incline, as in a particular direction; slant: The post leans to the left. The building leaned sharply before renovation. |
| 3. | to incline in feeling, opinion, action, etc.: to lean toward socialism. |
| 4. | to rest against or on something for support: to lean against a wall. |
| 5. | to depend or rely (usually fol. by on or upon): someone he could lean on in an emergency. |
| 6. | to incline or bend: He leaned his head forward. |
| 7. | to cause to lean or rest; prop: to lean a chair against the railing. |
| 8. | the act or state of leaning; inclination: The tower has a pronounced lean. |
| 9. | lean on, Informal.
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| 10. | lean over backward(s). bend 1 (def. 20). |
nein
adjective, -er, -est, noun | 1. | (of persons or animals) without much flesh or fat; not plump or fat; thin: lean cattle. |
| 2. | (of edible meat) containing little or no fat. |
| 3. | lacking in richness, fullness, quantity, etc.; poor: a lean diet; lean years. |
| 4. | spare; economical: a lean prose style. |
| 5. | Automotive. (of a mixture in a fuel system) having a relatively low ratio of fuel to air (contrasted with rich ). |
| 6. | (of paint) having more pigment than oil. Compare fat (def. 12). |
| 7. | Nautical. (of a bow) having fine lines; sharp. |
| 8. | Metallurgy. (of ore) having a low mineral content; low-grade. |
| 9. | the part of flesh that consists of muscle rather than fat. |
| 10. | the lean part of anything. |
| 11. | Typesetting. matter that is difficult to set because of complexity or intermixed fonts. Compare fat (def. 23). |

lean 1 (lēn) v. leaned, lean·ing, leans v. intr.
[Middle English lenen, from Old English hleonian; see klei- in Indo-European roots.] |
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)