Urdu Meanings, Pronounciation and Synonyms:
lean
(Pronunciation -تلفظ سنیۓ )
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Verb Forms: (lean, leant,leant)
Adjective: lean
| 1. lean [ Synonyms: skimpy] | |
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Containing little excess
"a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance";
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کم۔ |
| 2. lean | |
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Not profitable or prosperous
"a lean year";
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| 3. lean [ Synonyms: thin] | |
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Lacking excess flesh
"you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look";
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| 4. lean | |
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Lacking in mineral content or combustible material
"lean ore"; "lean fuel";
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Noun: lean
| 1. lean [ Synonyms: inclination, leaning, list, tilt] | |
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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";
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ٹیڑھا۔ |
Verb: lean
| 1. lean [ Synonyms: angle, slant, tilt, tip] | |
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To incline or bend from a vertical position
"She leaned over the banister";
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جھکنا ۔ |
| 2. lean | |
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Cause to lean or incline
"He leaned his rifle against the wall";
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| 3. lean [ Synonyms: be given, incline, run, tend] | |
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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";
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| 4. lean | |
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Rely on for support
"We can lean on this man";
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اعتماد کرنا۔ |
| 5. lean [ Synonyms: list] | |
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Cause to lean to the side
"Erosion listed the old tree";
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ایک طرف جھکانا۔ |
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anorectic, anorexic, boney, bony, cadaverous, deep-eyed, deficient, emaciated, gangling, gangly, gaunt, haggard, hollow-eyed, insufficient, lank, lanky, pinched, rawboned, reedlike, reedy, scarecrowish, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, skeletal, skinny, slender, slender-waisted, slight, slim, slim-waisted, spare, spindle-legged, spindle-shanked, spindly, stringy, sunken-eyed, svelte, sylphic, sylphlike, trim, twiggy, twiglike, underweight, unprofitable, wasp-waisted, wasted, weedy, wiry, wisplike, wispy, withered, wizen, wizened
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