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"LEANS" is a plural of: lean. |
Date "LEANS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | An illusion of a craft being tilted, with corresponding leaning of the crew in the opposite direction, caused by a false labyrinthine reaction uncorrected by visual cues. (references) |
Medicine | An illusory perception of bank attitude in which the aviator may lean in the opposite direction to that the perceived low wing. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: LEANS |
| English words defined with "LEANS": Enclitical ♦ torticollis ♦ wryneck. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "LEANS": air-drill operator, air-hammer operator ♦ doubling-machine operator ♦ JACKHAMMER OPERATOR ♦ LAMINATING-MACHINE TENDER, Leaning Tower ♦ plug-drill operator. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Natalie Wood displays new drive in-movie speakes as she leans out of car window, Hollywood, California. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Hibiscus Over Water" by Lisa McDonald Commentary: "Hibiscus flower leans over pool." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Daniel Deleon | REVOLUTION, accordingly, stands on its own bottom, hence it cannot be overthrown; REFORM leans upon others, hence its downfall is certain. |
J.j. Gurney | A tree will not only lie as it falls but it will fall as it leans. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Close beside it leans a diseased old apple tree swathed in a bandage of straw and loam |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The majority of this resource is comprised of fossil fuel. The Korean economy's vulnerability to crises in oil has attributed to a lopsided energy industry, which leans heavily towards high-energy consumption sectors, such as steel making and petrochemicals. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "LEANS" is generally used as a lexical verb (-s form) -- approximately 99.42% of the time. "LEANS" is used about 173 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 (-s form) | 99.42% | 172 | 23,722 |
| Noun (plural) | 0.58% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 173 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "LEANS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | fiktiv hældning. (various references) | |
Dutch | leans. (various references) | |
Finnish | nojaamisharha. (various references) | |
French | illusion d'inclinaison, adosse. (various references) | |
German | lehnt (reclines). (various references) | |
Italian | percezione di inclinazione opposta. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eanslay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | inclinação (addiction, appetite, bent, bias, camber, canting, climbdown, declination, declivity, descent, dip, disposal, disposition, downhill, droop, falling, fellow feeling, fondness, inclination, lean, leaning, like, liking, list, lopsidedness, motion, partiality, penchant, proclivity, propensity, rake, ramp, recession, sag, slant, slope, stomach, tendency, tilt, tip, trend, vocation, will). (various references) | |
Spanish | inclinación ficticia. (various references) | |
Swedish | lutar. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "LEANS": ceruleans, cleans, gleans, housecleans, overcleans, precleans, recleans. (additional references) | |
Words containing "LEANS": cleanse, cleansed, cleanser, cleansers, cleanses, cleansing. (additional references) | |
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"LEANS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: elains, Elanus, elins, kegans, laen, leana, leane, leano, Leanse, leanv, leavs, Leays, leban, lefan, Leganes, Lehan, leins, Leknes, lenao, lenz, leones, leonis, leons, letan, Lexan, lianes, lians, liasn, Llanes, loean, lunas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "LEANS" (pronounced lē"nz) |
| 4 | l ē" n z | cleans, gasolines, liens. |
| 3 | -ē" n z | convenes, beans, canteens, careens, cuisines, deans, demeans, Denes, eighteens, fifteens, figurines, fourteens, genes, greens, intervenes, jeans, latrines, machines, marines, means, nitrosamines, peens, preteens, Queens, ravines, reconvenes, sardines, scenes, screens, sixteens, skeens, smithereens, sunscreens, teens, vaccines. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: elans, lanes. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-n-s" | |
-1 letter: ales, anes, elan, lane, lase, lean, leas, lens, sale, sane, seal. | |
-2 letters: ale, als, ane, els, ens, las, lea, nae, sae, sal, sea, sel, sen. | |
-3 letters: ae, al, an, as, el, en, es, la, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-n-s" | |
+1 letter: aliens, alines, aneles, angels, angles, ankles, anoles, cleans, elains, elands, flanes, gleans, hansel, ladens, lances, lanose, latens, learns, lemans, lianes, mensal, naleds, navels, panels, planes, saline, sanely, sendal, silane, unseal. | |
+2 letters: adenyls, ainsell, alevins, alexins, aliners, alkanes, alkenes, alkines, alkynes, almners, almsmen, alpines, analyse, angelus, anglers, anisole, anklets, anlaces, anlages, anlases, anneals, antlers, arsenal, awnless, baleens, bangles, calends, cancels, candles, cannels, cantles, censual, centals, cleanse, dandles, dangles, darnels, denials, dentals, elastin, eluants, elysian, enables, enamels, enclasp, enhalos, enlaces, enolase, enslave, ensnarl, entails, espanol, etalons, finales, flamens, flanges, galenas, gelants, glances, glandes, handles, handsel, hansels, hantles, inhales, inlaces, inulase, jangles, kalends, knawels, lacunes, lagends, lagunes, laments, lancers, lancets, landers, langues, lankest, lanners, lasagne, lateens, latents, lattens, launces, lawines, laxness, leaners, leanest, leasing, leavens, lensman, lesbian, levants, linages, loaners, malines, mangels, mangles, manless, mantels, mantles, menials, nailers, nailset, napless, nebulas, pineals, planers, planets, platens, rankles, reloans, renails, rentals, replans, salient, salines, saltern, saltine, sanicle, scalene, scaleni, sealant, sealing, seminal, sendals, sensual, silanes, slacken, slainte, slander, slanged, slanted, snaffle, snailed, snarled, snarler, spancel, spangle, spaniel, spelean, splenia, sternal, talents, tangles, tenails, tolanes, unlaces, unlades, unleads, unleash, unseals, valines, wangles. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Images: Digital Art 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Bibliography |
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