lean
/ˈliːn/ adjectif B1En français : mince, maigre, serré, pauvre
- Slim; not fleshy.
- Having little fat. · lean steak cuts
- Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre. · a lean budget· a lean harvest
- Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient. · A lean ore hardly worth mining.· Running on too lean a fuel-air mixture will cause, among other problems, your internal combustion engine to heat up too much.
- Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing". · lean management· lean manufacturing
Comparatif leaner · Superlatif leanest
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Dans la bibliothèque
Then the tall, lean figure inclined towards me.
“Really, have you had a vision of the seven fat kine and the seven lean kine?”
In height he was rather over six feet, and so excessively lean that he seemed to be considerably taller.
Lestrade, lean and ferret-like as ever, was standing by the doorway, and greeted my companion and myself.
Autres résultats
- lean pencher, s'appuyer, se pencher B2
- lean To thin out C2
- lean Meat with no fat on it. C2
- lean An inclination away from the vertical. C2
- lean A recreational drug composed of codeine-prometh... C2
- lean in To shift one's weight forward
- lean into Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: ...
- lean on Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: ...
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