Leaning

Definition: Leaning

Leaning

Adjective

1. Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal; "the leaning tower of Pisa"; "the headstones were tilted".

2. Resting against a support.

Noun

1. An inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward frivolity".

2. A natural inclination; "he has a proclivity for exaggeration".

3. 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".

4. The act deviating from a vertical position.

Date "leaning" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Synonyms: Leaning

Synonyms: atilt (adj), canted (adj), tilted (adj), tipped (adj), inclination (n), lean (n), list (n), proclivity (n), propensity (n), tendency (n), tilt (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Desire	Mind, inclination, leaning, bent, animus, partiality, penchant, predilection; propensity; willingness; liking, love, fondness, relish.
Friendship	Verb: be friendly; Adjective:, be friends; be acquainted with; Adjective: know; have the ear of; keep company with;(sociality); hold communication with, have dealings with, sympathize with; have a leaning to; bear good will; (benevolent); love; make much of; befriend; (aid); introduce to. set one's horses together; have the latchstring out; hold out the right hand of friendship, extend the right hand of friendship, hold out the right hand of fellowship; become friendly; Adjective: make friends; with; break the lee, be introduced to; make acquaintance with, pick acquaintance with, scrape acquaintance with; get into favor, gain the friendship of.
Obliquity	Noun: obliquity, inclination, slope, slant, crookedness; Adjective: slopeness; leaning; Verb: bevel, tilt; bias, list, twist, swag, cant, lurch; distortion; bend; (curve); tower of Pisa.
Tendency	Noun: tendency; aptness, proneness, proclivity, bent, turn, tone, bias, set, leaning to, predisposition, inclination, propensity, susceptibility; conatus, nisus; liability; quality, nature, temperament; idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy; cast, vein, grain; humor, mood; drift; (direction); conduciveness, conducement; applicability; (utility); subservience; (instrumentality).
Willingness	Disposition, inclination, leaning, animus; frame of mind, humor, mood, vein; bent; (turn of mind); penchant; (desire);disposition, inclination, leaning, animus; frame of mind, humor, mood, vein; bent; (turn of mind); penchant; (desire); aptitude.
Wrong	Partiality, leaning, bias; favor, favoritism; nepotism, party spirit, partisanship; bigotry.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I turned, and there was this big white rabbit leaning against a lamp-post (Harvey; writing credit: Mary Chase;) Is the Leaning Tower of Pizza just a statue (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Max, look, it's the Leaning Tower of Cheesa (A Goofy Movie; writing credit: Jymn Magon; Chris Matheson) Whilst freely admitting a leaning towards loquaciousness, I must nevertheless protest (Goodnight Sweetheart; writing credit: Paul Alexander; Simon Braithwaite) The argument's leaning over there against the door jamb (The Cincinnati Kid; writing credit: Richard Jessup; Ring Lardner Jr.)
Lyrics	I'm leaning on the everlasting arms (I Believe I Can Fly; performing artist: R. Kelly) BEEN DRIVING DETROIT LEANING (BRASS IN POCKET; performing artist: The Pretenders)
Clever	Some people reach the top of the ladder of success only to find it is leaning against the wrong wall. (references; author: unknown)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Healthy Dependency: Leaning on Others Without Losing Yourself (reference) Leaning into Six Sigma: A Parable of the Journey to Six Sigma and a Lean Enterprise (reference) Leaning into the Wind : Women Write from the Heart of the West (reference) Leaning Sycamores: Natural Worlds of the Upper Potomac (reference) The Diary of Melanie Martin or: How I Survived Matt the Brat, Michelangelo, and the Leaning Tower of Pizza (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Cogic International Mass Choir: Leaning on Jesus (reference) Nova: Fall of the Leaning Tower (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Leaning (reference) Ottmar Liebert: Leaning Into The Night (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Sony 4/8GB DAT DDS2 SCSI2 Sdt-S7000/Me Leaning Cart 24HR Swap (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	What appears as a bird's head, leaning over to snatch up a tasty meal, is a striking example ... Credit: NASA.		Station Post emulating the "Leaning Tower of Pisa" Leg settled badly in vicinity of ditch Tower was rebuilt with one leg placed in center of road. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
	Leaning into the roll. About a 25 degree roll from the stance of the sailor. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		Fig. 1. Boat spade to stop running whale. Fig. 2 Narrow cutting spade or thin boat spade. Fig. 3. Flat or round shank spade Fig. 4. Cutting spade for scarfing blubber. Fig. 5 Cutting spade for leaning up. Fig. 6. Half-round spade. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.
	W. S. Bruce leaning against a bed of conglomerate at the entrance to the valley of Lake Richard. Plate V, print 6. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.		Wreck of the Spanish cruiser Reina Cristina, photographed from aft looking forward with four U.S. Navy sailors posing amidships, sometime after the battle. Note poop deck beams distorted by fire, with wooden decking burned off. This image may be reversed. Other views of the wreck show the after smokestack leaning to port, not starboard. Credit: NAVY.
	Scene on the after deck of USS Falcon (ASR-2) during the early stages of the salvage operations, 30 May 1939, showing congested conditions. View looks forward and to port, with diving stage in left center background. Officer leaning against rope in left center appears to be Commander Allan R. McCann. Photographed by the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine. Credit: NAVY.		African American boy leaning against a large tree in Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Man with pipe and rifle leaning up against a tree. Credit: Library of Congress.		Bird leaning over limb to watch laborers plowing and planting seed. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Mary Baker Eddy	To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	She beheld the minister advancing along the path, entirely alone, and leaning on a staff which he had cut by the wayside
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He would sit upon a wooden bench leaning against a broken trellis
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	Father Arnall came in and the Latin lesson began and he remained still, leaning on the desk with his arms folded
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	A man sat on the ground, leaning against the trunk of the tree
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	The book I had a mind to read was put up leaning against the wall
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Egyptians, traditionally Europe-oriented, are leaning more towards the U.S. as numerous airlines and travel agents offer increasingly less expensive tickets and packages. (references)
		CONATEL continues to study the best place to allocate spectrum but reportedly is leaning towards following in Brazil's footsteps and allocating in the 1.9 - 2.1 GHz range. (references)
		Bite GSM has in previous years concentrated on developing their tele-communications infrastructure and the Bite GSM network, but is currently leaning more towards developing high-speed data communications and Internet services, the latter through distributors. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
James Dobson	Will not. Because there is likely to be strings attached, and if not now then at some time in the future. And you start leaning on it and then if it's pulled away then that creates problems.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Leaning" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 98.72% of the time. "Leaning" is used about 1,405 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	98.72%	1,387	5,771
Adjective (general or positive)	1%	14	93,893
Noun (singular)	0.28%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	1,405	N/A

Expressions using "leaning": be leaning ♦ leaning back ♦ leaning backwards ♦ leaning post ♦ the leaning tower of pisa. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "leaning": left-leaning.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "leaning"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		tendencë (aim, drift, inclination, proclivity, set, tendency, trend), prirje (affinity, aptitude, bent, current, disposition, drift, flair, fondness, gift, habit, inclination, liability, mission, penchant, proclivity, propensity, run, set, taste, tendency, trend, vocation), i pjerrët (arduous, bevel, declivitous, declivous, high pitched, hilly, inclined, oblique, reclinate, sideling, skew, slant, slanting, slantwise, sloping), i anuar (lopsided, skew, splay). (various references)

Arabic		‏ميل (affection, aptness, bent, bevel, cant, disposition, flair, genius, gradient, gust, gusto, inclination, lean, liking, obliqueness, obliquity, penchant, persuasion, ply, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, readiness, run, sentiment, set, slant, slope, strain, tendency, tip, turn, use, will), ‏نزعة (bent, bias, direction, disposition, genius, movement, penchant, ply, predisposition, proclivity, strain, streak, temper, tendency, trend, wind). (various references)

Bulgarian		склонност (addiction, affectation, aptitude, bent, bias, disposition, fancy, fondness, habit, inclination, liability, liking, partiality, penchant, ply, predilection, predispose, prepossession, proclivity, proneness, propensity, relish, squint, stomach, taste, tendency, turn, vein), наклоняване (declination, list, nutation, roll), наклон (batter, bevel, bias, declension, declivity, dip, fall, grade, gradient, incidence, inclination, incline, inflection, inflexion, lean, low-grade, rake, ramp, rise, skew, slant, slope, throw, tilt, versant), навеждане (depression, tilt), предпочитане, полегнал (accumbent, beaten down, recumbent). (various references)

Chinese		倾斜 (Canting, inclined, inclining, lean, Leaned, Leant, Oblique, raked, raking, slanted, slanting, slope, sloped, sloping). (various references)

Czech		sklon (aptitude, bent, bevel, bias, dip, disposition, drive, fall, gradient, inclination, lean, penchant, ply, proclivity, propensity, rake, slant, slope, strain, tendency, tilt, twist). (various references)

Danish		mod vinden hældende tårn (leaning tower). (various references)

Dutch		tegen de wind in overhellende toren (leaning tower), scheve golf (leaning corrugations). (various references)

Finnish		taipuvaisuus (disposition, inclination, readiness, tendency, willingness), kalteva (inclined, slanting, sloping), kallistuminen (inclination, rise in prices). (various references)

French		tendance, penchant, penché, adossant. (various references)

German		lehnend (reclining). (various references)

Greek		κλίση (acclivity, aptitude, bend, bent, bias, cant, careen, conjugation, flair, flexion, gradient, inclination, inflection, inflexion, list, penchant, pitch, proclivity, propensity, slant, slope, tendency, tilt, tipping). (various references)

Hebrew		שפיעה (rake, slant), שעינה (support), נטיה (bent, deviation, disposition, inclination, liking, penchant, pitch, predilection, proclivity, propensity, rake, set, slant, spirit, streak, taste, tendency, tenor, tide, tilt, trend). (various references)

Hungarian		vonzalom (affection, liking, propensity), támaszkodó (reclined), hajlam (aptitude, bent, bias, dispose, disposition, gift, hank, inclination, instinct, liability, penchant, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, susceptibility, tendency), hajló (bent, canting, stiff), ferde (aslope, awry, beveled, bias, biased, biassed, cant, cock eyed, cockeyed, cross, oblique, out of the straigh, perverse, sideling, sidelong, skew, slant, slanting, splay). (various references)

Indonesian		kecondongan (inclination, tendency), ereng (sloping), condong (inclined, inclining to, set, symphatetic). (various references)

Italian		propensione (bent, inclination, proneness, propension, propensity, taste), pendente (aweigh, hanging, Loppy, outstanding, pendant, pendulous). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ピサの斜塔 (Leaning Tower of Pisa, pidgin English, piste, pistol, piston, piston corer, pizza, pizza pie, plunger), 斜塔 (leaning tower), 浴びせ倒し (pushing downby leaning on), 悪平等 (leaning over backwards to be impartial), 右傾 (leaning to the right, rightist). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ピサのしゃとう (Leaning Tower of Pisa), しゃとう (front ofa shrine, leaning tower), うけい (leaning to the right, rightist), あくびょうどう (leaning over backwards to be impartial), あびせたおし (pushing downby leaning on). (various references)

Korean		기댐. (various references)

Manx		scoidey (cant, lean, list, obliqueness, slope), paartnagh (partial), listal (enlist, enlistment, enrol, enrolment, join up, list, recruit, recruitment, tilting), lieh-lhie (lean on, recline, reclining), courchleayney (bias). (various references)

Norwegian		tilbøyelighet (bent, inclination), skjev (lopsided). (various references)

Pig Latin		eaninglay.(various references)

Portuguese		tendência (aptitude, bent, bias, compliance, current, driving, liability, proclivity, propensity, stomach, tendency, tide, trend, vocation), propenso (inclinable, minded, ready, willing), propensão (bias, proclivity, propensity, tendency), parcialidade (faction, partiality, prejudice), inclinado (apt, aslope, atilt, biased, canted, declivous, downhill, inclinable, incumbent, minded, oblique, pendulous, prone, ready, slanting, sloping, superabundant), inclinação (addiction, appetite, bent, bias, camber, canting, climbdown, declination, declivity, descent, dip, disposal, disposition, downhill, droop, falling, fellow feeling, fondness, inclination, lean, like, liking, list, lopsidedness, motion, partiality, penchant, proclivity, propensity, rake, ramp, recession, sag, slant, slope, stomach, tendency, tilt, tip, trend, vocation, will). (various references)

Romanian		tendinţã (aptness, bearing, bent, departure, determination, disposition, drift, drive, endeavor, endeavour, hang, inclination, proclivity, run, strain, streak, striving, tendency, trend), aplecare (bend, bending, cast, crouch, droop, inclination, stoop), înclinare (batter, bent, bias, cant, cast, declension, dip, fancy, hang, inclination, lean, liking, lurch, obliquity, pitching, slope, tilt), înclinaţie (addiction, aptness, disposition, grain, hade, inclination, incline, individuality, lean, mind, notion, partiality, penchant, ply, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, relish, set, squint, taste, tendency, turn, twist, vein, vocation). (various references)

Russian		склонность (aptitude, bent, disposition, fancy, flair, inclination, inclination for, inclination to, liking, lurch, partiality, penchant, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, vocation, weakness, zest), симпатия (feeling, fellow feeling, liking, sympathy), пристрастие (bias, partiality, partisanship, predilection, relish). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sklonost (affinity, bent, bias, calling, fancy, fondness, inclination, liking, penchant, proclivity, propensity, taste, tendency), nakoso, nagnut (bevel, declivous, inclined, rakish, sideling, slanting, sloping), naginjanje (heeling), kriv (awry, bandy, blameworthy, crooked, culpable, curved, guilty, wry). (various references)

Spanish		tendencia que ocurre (strain, tide), propensión (disposition, inclination, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, susceptibility, tendency, turn), predilección (partiality, penchant, predilection), inclinación (bent, bow, careenage, desire, dip, droop, gradient, inclination, incline, inclining, item, liking, list, mind, nod, nutation, penchant, pitch, propensity, skew, slant, slanting, slope, sloping, tilt, tilting, want). (various references)

Swedish		lutande (cursive, inclination, inclined, italic, slanting). (various references)

Turkish		yatık (aslope, decumbent, tilting), meyilli (aslant, aslope, bias, declivitous, downhill, inclinable, inclined, oblique, on the slope, prone, skew, slant, slanting, slantwise, sloping, subject to, tilting), meyil (affection, aptitude, bias, cant, declivity, gradient, gravitation, inclination, incline, lean, liking, obliquity, penchant, proclivity, proneness, propensity, slant, slope, talus, tendency, tide, tilt, trend), eğilim (affection, aptitude, bent, bias, current, device, disposition, drift, gravitation, inclination, liability, notion, obliquity, penchant, ply, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, pulse, relish, sense, set, slant, squint, tendency, tenor, tide, tilt, trend, turn, twist), eğik (bevel, drooping, droopy, inclined, oblique, on the slope, skewed, slanting, sloping, threshold). (various references)

Turkmen		sцяenmek (be leaning). (various references)

Ukrainian		схильність (addiction, amenability, appetite, aptitude, aptness, bend, bent, care, hang, penchant, polarity, predisposition, prepossession, strain, taste, vein), співчуття (charity, commiseration, condolence, empathy, sympathy), пристрасть (appetence, appetite, ardency, ardour, bias, care, desire, flame, fondness, lust, partiality, passion, predilection, propensity, rage, weakness, yen). (various references)

Vietnamese		thiên hướng (disposition, penchant, propensity, turn), khuynh hướng (drift, tendency). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	inclina, inclino, inclinus. (various references)
Medieval Latin	700-1500	talentum, tendentia. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	John Chapter 13, Verse 23
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Hn de anakeimenoV eiV twn maqhtwn autou en tw kolpw tou ihsou on hgapa o ihsouV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Erat ergo recumbens unus ex discipulis eius in sinu Iesu quem diligebat Iesus
Old English	990	West Saxon	On þas hælendes barme þane se hælendlufede.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And so oon of hise disciplis was restynge in the bosum of Jhesu, whom Jhesu louede.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Ther was one of his disciples which leaned on Iesus bosome whom Iesus loved.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom, one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	There was at table one of his disciples, the one dear to Jesus, resting his head on Jesus' breast.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	John Chapter 13, Verse 23
Cebuano	Usa sa iyang mga tinun-an, siya nga hinigugma ni Jesus, nagpauraray sa dughan ni Jesus.
Chinese	有一個門徒、是耶穌所愛的、側身挨近耶穌的懷裡。
Croatian	A jedan od njegovih uèenika - onaj kojega je Isus ljubio - bijaše za stolom Isusu do krila.
Danish	Men der var en iblandt hans Disciple, som sad til Bords ved Jesu Side, han, hvem Jesus elskede.
Dutch	En een van Zijn discipelen was aanzittende in den schoot van Jezus, welken Jezus liefhad.
Finnish	Ja eräs hänen opetuslapsistaan, se, jota Jeesus rakasti, lepäsi aterioitaessa Jeesuksen syliä vasten.
French	Un des disciples, celui que Jésus aimait, était couché sur le sein de Jésus.
German	Es war aber einer unter seinen Jüngern, der zu Tische saß an der Brust Jesu, welchen Jesus liebhatte.
Hungarian	Egy pedig az õ tanítványai közül a Jézus kebelén nyugszik vala, a kit szeret vala Jézus.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Pengikut yang dikasihi Yesus duduk di sebelah Yesus.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Seorang dari antara murid-murid Yesus, yaitu yang dikasihi oleh Yesus, bersandar di sebelah kanan-Nya.
Maori	Na i te whakawhirinaki ki te uma o Ihu tetahi o ana akonga, ko ta Ihu hoki i aroha ai.
Norwegian	En av hans disipler satt til bords ved Jesu side, han som Jesus elsket;
Portuguese	Ora, achava-se reclinado sobre o peito de Jesus um de seus discípulos, aquele a quem Jesus amava.
Rumanian	Unul din ucenici, acela pe care -l iubea Isus, stqtea la masq culcat pe sknul lui Isus.
Shuar	Chikichík unuiniamuri, Jesus ti aneamu, Niijiai tsanin yurumuk pujumiayi.
Spanish	Uno de sus discípulos, a quien Jesús amaba, estaba a la mesa recostado junto a Jesús.
Swahili	Mmoja wa wanafunzi, ambaye Yesu alikuwa anampenda sana, alikuwa ameketi karibu na Yesu.
Swedish	Nu var där bland lärjungarna en som låg till bords invid Jesu bröst, den lärjunge som Jesus älskade.
Uma	Hadua ana'guru-na to nape'ahi', mohura hi ncori-na.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "leaning": leanings. (additional references)
	Words ending with "leaning": cleaning, gleaning, housecleaning, overcleaning, precleaning, recleaning. (additional references)
	Words containing "leaning": gleanings, housecleanings. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Leaning" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Elhanan, laining, laning, leanent, Leannan, leibing, leining, lening, lennin, Lenzing, leraning, lerning, lianing, liganding, Llanonig. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "leaning" (pronounced lē"ning)
5	l ē" n i ng	cleaning.
4	-ē" n i ng	careening, convening, demeaning, greening, intervening, machining, meaning, preening, screening, weaning.
3	-n i ng	apportioning, abstaining, abandoning, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, Denning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: aneling, eanling.
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-n"
	-1 letter: genial, linage.
	-2 letters: agile, algin, alien, align, aline, angel, angle, anile, elain, glean, inane, ingle, liane, liang, ligan, linen, linga.
	-3 letters: agin, anil, egal, elan, gaen, gain, gale, gane, gien, glen, glia, ilea, lain, lane, lang, lean, lien, line, ling, linn, nail, nine.
	-4 letters: age, ail, ain, ale, ane, ani, eng, gae, gal, gan.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-n"
	+1 letter: aliening, angeling, cleaning, eanlings, enabling, enlacing, gantline, gleaning, ladening, latening, leanings, learning, paneling, ungenial, weanling, yeanling.
	+2 letters: alignment, annealing, bengaline, canceling, cleansing, congenial, deplaning, eglantine, emplaning, enameling, enflaming, enhaloing, enlarging, enplaning, enslaving, entailing, fenagling, galantine, gantlines, gleanings, hanseling, inelegant, lamenting, learnings, leavening, levanting, lilangeni, meaningly, meningeal, panelings, panelling, reloaning, renailing, signalmen, unaligned, unleading, unsealing, weanlings, yeanlings.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
leaning tower of pisa	343	leaning ray	6
leaning post	72	card greeting leaning tree	5
leaning piza tower	70	leaning tree.com	5
leaning tower	66	leaning niolas	5
leaning tree	56	leaning basement wall	5
leaning nialos	55	italy leaning tower	4
leaning pizza tower	36	leaning pissa tower	4
picture of leaning tower of pisa	34	leaning marine post	4
leaning book case	16	cowboy leaning	4
leaning shelf	14	jennifer leaning	4
card leaning tree	13	leaning picture tower	4
boat leaning post	12	leaning twist	4
arms everlasting leaning	11	leaning post todd	3
italy leaning pisa tower	10	leaning pic pisa tower	3
leaning	10	leaning over	3
leaning tower ymca	9	6 adobe free leaning premiere	3
history leaning pisa tower	7	leaning post used	3
leaning picture piza tower	7	information leaning pisa tower	3
leaning mirror	7	leaning wall	3
book leaning shelf	6	floor leaning mirror	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.


"Leaning Trees" by John Donovan Commentary: "Leaning trees in the South West of Ireland."	"Leaning Tower 1" by Kim Werker Commentary: "Not much to say, except that it's cool to see in person!."
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

Leaning

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Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

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