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Tekoälykääntäjä
Määritelmät
Verbi
- (intransitive) To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
- To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.
- (copulative) To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.
- (Followed by against, on, or upon) To rest or rely, for support, comfort, to use as a hard surface for writing, etc.
- To hang outwards.
- To press against.
Substantiivi
- (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.
- (uncountable) Meat with no fat on it.
- (US slang) A recreational drug composed of codeine-promethazine cough syrup mixed with usually soda and associated with the hip-hop culture of the Southern United States.
- (countable, biology) An organism that is lean in stature.
Adjektiivi
- (of a person or animal) Slim; not fleshy.
- (of meat) Having little fat.
- Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
- Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
- (printing, archaic) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed to fat.
- (business) Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing".
Esimerkit
- a leaning column
- She leaned out of the window.
- I'm leaning towards voting Conservative in the next election.
- They delight rather to lean to their old customs.
- He leaned not on his fathers but himself.
- The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.
- His fainting limbs against an oak he leant.
- a lean budget; a lean harvest
- lean copy, matter, or type
- He leaned the mixture in an effort to cause a backfire through the carburetor, the generally accepted method of breaking the ice loose.
- Even the Pilot's Operating Handbooks (POH) for our training airplanes add to our paranoia with their insistence that we not lean the mixture until we're above 5000 feet density altitude.
- The surgeon leaned over the body, and raised the left hand. "The old story," he said, shaking his head: "no wedding-ring, I see. Ah! Good-night!"
- At length he put it down, as if despairing of success; and, leaning back in his chair, muttered: "What a fine thing capital punishment is! Dead men never repent; dead men never bring awkward stories to light. Ah, it’s a fine thing for the trade! Five of 'em strung up in a row, and none left to play booty, or turn white-livered!"
- Oliver leaned his head upon his hand when the old man disappeared, and pondered, with a trembling heart, on the words he had just heard.
- "Well!" said the matron, leaning her elbow on the table, and looking reflectively at the fire; "I’m sure we have all on us a great deal to be grateful for! A great deal, if we did but know it. Ah!"
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | leant | Partisiipin perfekti | leaned |
| Partisiipin perfekti | lean'd (vanhahtava) | Imperfekti | leant |
| Imperfekti | leaned | Imperfekti | lean'd (vanhahtava) |
| Partisiipin preesens | leaning | Komparatiivi | leaner |
| Superlatiivi | leanest | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | leans |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | leaneth (vanhahtava) | Monikko | leans |