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Adjective lean has 5 senses
  1. thin, lean - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
  2. lean - lacking in mineral content or combustible material; "lean ore"; "lean fuel"
    Antonym:     rich
  3. lean, skimpy - containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"
    Antonym: sufficient (indirect, via insufficient)
  4. lean - low in mineral content; "a lean ore"
    Antonym:     sufficient (indirect, via insufficient)
  5. lean - not profitable or prosperous; "a lean year"
    Antonym:     profitable (indirect, via unprofitable)
,Noun leaner has 1 sense
  1. leaner - (horseshoes) the throw of a horseshoe so as to lean against (but not encircle) the stake
    --1 is a kind of     throw
    Derived forms: verb lean1, verb lean2
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