Meaning of LEANING
| Pronunciation: | | 'leening
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- [n] the act of deviating from a vertical position
- [n] 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"
- [n] a natural inclination; "he has a proclivity for exaggeration"
- [n] an inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward frivolity"
- [adj] resting against a support
- [adj] departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal; "the leaning tower of Pisa"; "the headstones were tilted"
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| | Synonyms: | | atilt, canted, inclination, inclined, lean, list, proclivity, propensity, propensity, tendency, tilt, tilted, tipped, unerect |
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| | See Also: | | act, disposition, human action, human activity, inclination, inclination, position, spatial relation, tendency | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Lean"ing\, n.
The act, or state, of inclining; inclination; tendency; as, a
leaning towards Calvinism.
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| | Related Terms: | | a thing for, affinity, an ear for, an eye for, angularity, animus, aptitude, aptness, aslant, aslope, atilt, bag, bent, bevel, beveled, bias, biased, cant, canted, canting, capacity for, careening, cast, character, chosen kind, conatus, conduciveness, constitution, cup of tea, delight, diathesis, discrimination, disposition, druthers, eagerness, eccentricity, fancy, fascination, favor, favoritism, feeling for, felicity, flair, forejudgment, genius for, gift for, grain, heeling, idiosyncrasy, ill-balanced, inclination, inclinational, inclinatory, inclined, inclining, individualism, inequality, innate aptitude, interest, involvement, jaundice, jaundiced eye, kidney, lean, leaning tower, liability, liking, list, listing, lopsided, make, makeup, mental set, mettle, mind, mind-set, mold, mutual affinity, mutual attraction, nature, nepotism, off-balance, one-sidedness, out of plumb, out of square, overbalanced, parti pris, partialism, partiality, particular choice, partisanism, partisanship, penchant, personal choice, pitch, pitched, preconception, predilection, predisposition, preference, preferential treatment, prejudgment, prejudice, prepossession, probability, proclivity, proneness, propensity, rake, raking, readiness, recumbent, sensitivity to, set, shelving, shelvy, sideling, sidelong, slant, slanted, slanting, slantways, slantwise, slope, sloped, sloping, soft spot, stamp, strain, streak, stripe, style, susceptibility, swag, sway, sympathy, taste, temper, temperament, tendency, tendent, tendential, tendentious, tending, thing, tilt, tilted, tilting, tip, tipped, tipping, tipsy, top-heavy, tower of Pisa, tropism, turn, turn for, turn of mind, twist, type, unbalanced, undetachment, undispassionateness, unneutrality, unstable, unsteady, warp, weakness, willingness |
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