Crossword clues for leaning
leaning
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Leaning \Lean"ing\, n. The act, or state, of inclining; inclination; tendency; as, a leaning towards Calvinism.
Lean \Lean\ (l[=e]n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Leaned (l[=e]nd), sometimes Leant (l[e^]nt); p. pr. & vb. n. Leaning.] [OE. lenen, AS. hlinian, hleonian, v. i.; akin to OS. hlin[=o]n, D. leunen, OHG. hlin[=e]n, lin[=e]n, G. lehnen, L. inclinare, Gr. kli`nein, L. clivus hill, slope. [root]40. Cf. Declivity, Climax, Incline, Ladder.]
To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as, she leaned out at the window; a leaning column. ``He leant forward.''
--Dickens.-
To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; -- with to, toward, etc.
They delight rather to lean to their old customs.
--Spenser. -
To rest or rely, for support, comfort, and the like; -- with on, upon, or against.
He leaned not on his fathers but himself.
--Tennyson.
Wiktionary
n. A tendency. vb. (present participle of lean English)
WordNet
adj. departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal; "the leaning tower of Pisa"; "the headstones were tilted" [syn: atilt, canted, tilted, tipped]
resting against a support
n. an inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward frivolity" [syn: propensity, tendency]
a natural inclination; "he has a proclivity for exaggeration" [syn: proclivity, propensity]
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" [syn: tilt, list, inclination, lean]
the act of deviating from a vertical position
Usage examples of "leaning".
I peeked back over the covers and noticed Adeem leaning into Ty, whispering.
Four feet away, Lieutenant Carrie Alameda watched the midshipman leaning over the chart table.
Now Alan was leaning over the sink, staring down into darkness, holding on to the darkness, which writhed and scratched beneath him.
Seregil was leaning more heavily on his arm than he had earlier, Alec noted, wondering if it had been a mistake not going back to their room.
Leaning as close as he dared, Alec quickly told him the details of their conference at the Cockerel.
She drew Alette to her with a kind of vehemence, kissed her, and then wept silently, leaning on her shoulder.
He supposed that another, a stoopish man who wore dark glasses and an alpaca coat and who was leaning upon a stout cane, might be the owner of the warehouse itself.
And before she had any time to prepare herself for it, there they stood on the embankment, with the Grand Canal opening resplendently before them in gleaming amorphous blues and greens and olives and silvers, and the tottering palace fronts of marble and inlay leaning over to look at their faces in it, and the mooring poles, top-heavy, striped, lantern-headed, bristling outside the doorways in the cobalt-shadowed water, and the sudden bunches of piles propped together like drunks holding one another up outside an English pub after closing time.
Prince Vasili left the chair on which he had been leaning, and- with air which intimated that he knew what he was about and if others did not understand him it was so much the worse for them- did not go up to the dying man, but passed by him, joined the eldest princess, and moved with her to the side of the room where stood the high bedstead with its silken hangings.
Mac Ard was leaning toward Maeve, his arms on the table, his hands curled around a mug of the ale, and her mam was talking.
Lysie turned around slowly to see the Argon leaning with one shoulder against the wall near her.
And at the sight of the driver, leaning out and peering impatiently ahead at the parked roadster, Asey got up and gravely kicked himself.
Leaning back, Axel paused to draw on his pipe, looking contemplatively at the ceiling.
Axel and Jed were still there, Axel leaning on his rifle, pulling on his beard.
She was watching an elderly Chinese couple helping each other up the steps into the vault when Mr Axt, leaning over the counter, signalled her.