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Leaning   /lˈinɪŋ/   Listen
Leaning

noun
1.
An inclination to do something.  Synonyms: propensity, tendency.
2.
A natural inclination.  Synonyms: proclivity, propensity.
3.
The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical.  Synonyms: inclination, lean, list, tilt.  "The ship developed a list to starboard" , "He walked with a heavy inclination to the right"
4.
The act of deviating from a vertical position.
adjective
1.
Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal.  Synonyms: atilt, canted, tilted, tipped.  "The headstones were tilted"


Lean

verb
(past & past part. leant or leaned; pres. part. leaning)
1.
To incline or bend from a vertical position.  Synonyms: angle, slant, tilt, tip.
2.
Cause to lean or incline.
3.
Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined.  Synonyms: be given, incline, run, tend.  "These dresses run small" , "He inclined to corpulence"
4.
Rely on for support.
5.
Cause to lean to the side.  Synonym: list.



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"Leaning" Quotes from Famous Books



... open and I entered. No one there. The stairs, winding upward, invited me to climb and I did so. The little room with the big lantern, the latter now covered with a white cloth, was untenanted also. I looked out of the window. There she was, on the iron gallery surrounding the top of the tower, leaning on the rail and gazing out over the water. She had not heard me. For a moment I stood ...
— The Rise of Roscoe Paine • Joseph C. Lincoln
... Jack, leaning against a convenient tree in the next row, smoked a cigarette and watched their slow, toilsome progress. Killing work it was, but the next trip would be easier after that rendering of the stiff tissue. When the stick touched the hondo, the two stopped and panted for a minute; then Diego ...
— The Gringos • B. M. Bower
... and beheld the face of a woman peering under my hat. Notwithstanding the dusk, I could see that the features were hideously ugly and almost black; they belonged, in fact, to a gypsy crone, at least seventy years of age, leaning upon a staff. ...
— The Bible in Spain • George Borrow
... a Marquis like his forefathers, not that he might some day live to be a wealthy peer, would I have it so,—but because he would be yours and mine." Now she got up, and threw her arms around him, and stood leaning on him as he spoke. "I can look forward to that and think of a career. If that cannot be, the rest of it must provide for itself. There are others who can look after the Traffords,—and who will do so whether it be necessary or not. To have gone a little out of the beaten path, to have escaped some ...
— Marion Fay • Anthony Trollope
... something strange here. Dalgetty's senses began to reach out. She was leaning close and he knew the signs of horror even if she tried to hide them. She's not so hard as she makes out—but then ...
— The Sensitive Man • Poul William Anderson


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