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Definition: Leaner |
LeanerNoun1. (horseshoes) the throw of a horseshoe so as to lean against (but not encircle) the stake. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "leaner" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Industry | A container which does not stand upright on its base. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Leaner |
| English words defined with "leaner": beefalo ♦ cattalo. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm working for this firm that helps those overblown tech companies scale back and stay afloat now that they're facing leaner times. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | There is also evidence that obese children and adolescents exercise less than their leaner peers. (references) | |
The food industry should accelerate its current efforts to develop, produce, and market leaner meats and other foods, including dairy products, with reduced total fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol content. (references) | ||
Economic History | Japan | Hand-in-hand with this development, direct importing--bypassing trading houses and as many other intermediaries as possible--has become increasingly popular as companies become leaner and more cost conscious. (references) |
Venezuela | The Government of Venezuela has also established a "Macroeconomic Stabilization Fund," an institution that will hold excess revenues from high oil prices to make them available to the Government in leaner times when oil prices fall. (references) | |
Trade | Japan | Even when credit is loose, companies sometimes borrow in excess of their need in order to maintain good relations with their bank and to ensure that funds will be available in leaner years. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Leaner" is generally used as an adjective (comparative) -- approximately 64.84% of the time. "Leaner" is used about 91 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 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 64.84% | 59 | 44,010 |
| Noun (singular) | 35.16% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Total | 100.00% | 91 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
leaner | 8 |
leaner new york | 6 |
leaner thigh | 2 |
leaner leg | 2 |
leaner body | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "leaner"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | æ¯"较精瘦. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | skaev flaske (tilted bottle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | scheve fles (tilted bottle), kromme fles (tilted bottle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vino pullo (tilted bottle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bouteille penchée, ballon penché. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schiefer Kolben (tilted bottle), schiefe Flasche (tilted bottle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | bottiglia pendente (tilted bottle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | ë" 야윈. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eanerlay garrafa torta (tilted bottle), garrafa inclinada (tilted bottle). (various references) botella torcida (tilted bottle), botella inclinada (tilted bottle). (various references) sned flaska (tilted bottle), insjunken flaska (tilted bottle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "leaner": leaners. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "leaner": cleaner, gleaner, uncleaner. (additional references) | |
Words containing "leaner": cleaners, gleaners. (additional references) | |
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"Leaner" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fleener, Flehner, flexneri, laner, lanor, lawner, leaer, leaker, leana, leander, Leandro, leane, leaners, leanne, leano, leanyer, leater, Lecanora, Lecanvey, leene, Legagneur, Lehner, Lehnert, Leine, Leiner, Leizer, Lemagnen, lenare, lener, leyanum, Liener, Linare, Llanaber, loanee, loebneri, pleaner, weaner, Zeuner. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "leaner" (pronounced lē"ner) |
| 4 | l ē" n er | cleaner. |
| 3 | -ē" n er | demeanor, greener, intervenor, keener, meaner, misdemeanor, screener, wiener. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: anele, laree, learn, ranee, renal. | |
-2 letters: alee, earl, earn, elan, erne, lane, lean, lear, leer, near, rale, real, reel. | |
-3 letters: ale, ane, are, ear, eel, era, ere, ern, lar, lea, lee, nae, nee, ran, ree. | |
-4 letters: ae, al, an, ar, el, en, er, la, na, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: aliener, cleaner, enabler, enlarge, enteral, eternal, general, gleaner, leaners, learned, learner, reclean, relearn, renewal, repanel, teleran. | |
+2 letters: aldermen, aleurone, algerine, alieners, allergen, annealer, antlered, calender, canceler, cerulean, clarence, cleaners, cleanser, elaterin, enablers, enameler, enlarged, enlarger, enlarges, enslaver, entailer, eternals, external, flanerie, funereal, generals, gleaners, lamenter, lanneret, larcener, lateener, lavender, learners, leathern, levanter, nearlier, neurulae, oleander, perineal, peroneal, preclean, prerenal, realness, recleans, refallen, regental, rehandle, relearns, relearnt, relevant, reliance, reloaned, renailed, renewals, rentable, repanels, revenual, telerans, treelawn, treenail, venereal, vernacle. | |
+3 letters: aeroplane, alertness, aleurones, alexander, algerines, allergens, alternate, angerless, annealers, arecoline, banderole, bandoleer, baseliner, blackener, blarneyed, breadline, calenders, calenture, cancelers, canceller, celebrant, centraler, ceruleans, channeler, clarences, cleanlier, cleansers, clearance, clearness, coeternal, concealer, crenulate, ealdormen, earliness, earnestly, elaterins, embrangle, enamelers, endurable, engrailed, enlargers, enslavers, ensnarled, entailers, entangler, enterable, enterally, eternally, explainer, externals, fenestral, flaneries, flattener, freelance, generable, generally, germanely, glandered, greenmail, headliner, herculean, inferable, interlace, intermale, intervale, lamenters, lannerets, larceners, larcenies, largeness, lateeners, laundered, launderer, laveering, lavenders, learnable, learnedly, legendary, letterman, levanters, linearise, linearize, madrilene, minelayer, nearliest, numerable, oleanders, organelle, overclean, overladen, overlearn, percaline, perennial, prebendal, precancel, precleans, pregnable, prevalent, ravelment, realigned, reanalyze, rebalance, rechannel, recleaned, rectangle, rehandled, rehandles, reinflate, relearned, releasing, relevance, relevancy, reliances, renewable, renewably, repaneled, repealing, repellant, replanned, replanted, resealing, retinulae, revealing, slandered, slanderer, sloganeer, tailender, tenurable, ternately, tervalent, tolerance, treelawns, treenails, unaltered, uncleaner, unclearer, unlearned, unraveled, unrelated, unrelaxed, venerable, venerably, vernacles, vernalize, waterline. | |
+4 letters: accelerant, adherently, adrenaline, adulterine, aeroplanes, afferently, alderwomen, alexanders, allergenic, allurement, alternated, alternates, answerable, arecolines, banderoles, bandleader, bandoleers, baseliners, blackeners, bleariness, breadlines, calendared, calendered, calenderer, calentures, camerlengo, cancellers, cantilever, celebrants, censurable, centralest, centralise, centralize, ceremonial, challenger, chandelier, channelers, clearances, coelentera, concealers, confederal, credential, crenelated, crenulated, delineator, derailment, elementary, emblazoner, embrangled, embrangles, enamelware, endodermal, endorsable, enfleurage, entanglers, enthralled, entodermal, enumerable, epicentral, eternalize, euryhaline, explainers, externally, flatteners, freelanced, freelancer, freelances, funereally, generalise, generalist, generality, generalize, goaltender, governable, greenmails, headliners, heavenlier, hyperplane, inexorable, inoperable, integrable, interlaced, interlaces, interlayer, interleave, interplead, interrenal, intervales, irrelevant, journalese, launderers, laundrette, lavendered, leaguering, leathering, lebensraum, leprechaun, leveraging, linearised, linearises, linearized, linearizes, linebacker, linecaster, loungewear, madrilenes, malingered, malingerer, mannerless, menarcheal, mensurable, mercantile, minelayers, mineralise, mineralize, mislearned, naltrexone, neoliberal, neorealism, neorealist, neurilemma, neutralise, neutralize, newsdealer, nonfederal, nonrenewal, numberable, organelles, outgeneral, outlearned, overcleans, overhandle, overlearns, overmantel, parenteral, parentless, penetrable, penetralia, percalines, perennials, peritoneal, personable, planimeter, pleasanter, ponderable, precancels, precleaned, pregenital, preplanned, prevalence, prevalents, rabblement, ravelments, realnesses, realtering, reanalyses, reanalyzed, reanalyzes, reasonable, reasonless, rebalanced, rebalances, recanalize, rechannels, recleaning, rectangles, refundable, regelating, regimental, reinflated, reinflates, relabeling, relaunched, relaunches, relearning, relegating, relegation, relevances, relevantly, reluctance, renderable, repaneling, repanelled, repellants, repleading, resemblant, returnable, revealment, revelation, ringleader, screenable, screenland, screenplay, slanderers, sloganeers, streamline, superclean, superplane, tabernacle, tailenders, terminable, terneplate, tolerances, trancelike, trawlermen, treponemal, ultradense, unbearable, unclearest, undeclared, underglaze, undervalue, unenlarged, unheralded, unravelled, unreadable, unrealized, unreliable, unrevealed, untraveled, unwearable, vernalized, vernalizes, vulnerable, waterlines, watermelon, wentletrap. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 65 61 6E 65 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. . .- -. . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100101 01100001 01101110 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L e a n e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0065 0061 006E 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)467167807184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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