Synonyms of the word leaning


LEANINGACT - ATILT - CANTED - DISPOSITION - INCLINATION - INCLINED - LEAN - LIST - POSITION - PROCLIVITY - PROPENSITY - TENDENCY - TILT - TILTED - TIPPED

leaning

  • n. A tendency.
  • v. present participle of lean.

act

  • n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
  • n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
  • n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
  • n. The process of doing something.
  • n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
  • n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
  • n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
  • n. (countable) Any organized activity.
  • n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
  • n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
  • n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
  • v. (intransitive) To do something.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
  • v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
  • v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
  • v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
  • v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
  • v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
  • v. (transitive) To play (a role).
  • v. (transitive) To feign.
  • v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

atilt

  • adj. at an angle from the vertical or horizontal.
  • adv. as if tilting; like a knight on horseback.
  • adv. at an angle from the vertical or horizontal.

canted

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of cant.
  • adj. Having angles.
  • adj. Inclined at an angle to something else; sloping.

disposition

  • n. The arrangement or placement of certain things.
  • n. Tendency or inclination under given circumstances.
  • n. Temperamental makeup or habitual mood.
  • n. Control over something.
  • n. (law) Transfer or relinquishment to the care or possession of another.
  • n. (law) Final decision or settlement.
  • n. (medicine) The destination of a patient after medical treatment such as surgery.
  • n. (music) The set of choirs of strings on a harpsichord.
  • v. To remove or place in a different position.

inclination

  • n. A physical tilt or bend.
  • n. A slant or slope.
  • n. A mental tendency.
  • n. (geometry) The angle of intersection of a reference plane.
  • n. (obsolete) A person or thing loved or admired.

inclined

  • adj. At an angle to the horizontal; slanted or sloped.
  • adj. Having a tendency, preference, likelihood, or disposition.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of incline.

lean

  • v. To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
  • v. To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; with to, toward, etc.
  • v. To rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.; with on, upon, or against.
  • v. To hang outwards.
  • v. To press against.
  • n. (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.
  • adj. (of a person or animal) slim; not fleshy.
  • adj. (of meat) having little fat.
  • adj. Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
  • adj. Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
  • adj. (printing, archaic) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed…
  • adj. efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean…
  • v. To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or…
  • v. To conceal.
  • n. (slang) A recreational drug based on codeine laced promethazine cough syrup, popular in the hip-hop community…

list

  • n. A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
  • n. Material used for cloth selvage.
  • n. (in the plural) The palisades or barriers used to fence off a space for tilting or jousting tournaments.
  • n. A register or roll of paper consisting of an enumeration or compilation of a set of possible items; the…
  • n. (computing, programming) A codified representation of a list, used to store data or in processing; especially,…
  • n. (obsolete) A limit or boundary; a border.
  • n. (obsolete) A stripe.
  • n. (architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
  • n. (carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a plank or board.
  • n. (ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
  • n. (tin-plate manufacture) The first thin coating of tin.
  • n. (tin-plate manufacture) A wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
  • v. To create or recite a list.
  • v. To place in listings.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To engage in public service by enrolling one's name; to enlist.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To engage a soldier, etc.; to enlist.
  • v. (transitive) To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
  • v. To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or form a border.
  • v. To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
  • v. (carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
  • v. To plough and plant with a lister.
  • v. (US, Southern US) To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with the hoe.
  • n. (archaic) Art; craft; cunning; skill.
  • v. (intransitive, poetic) To listen.
  • v. (transitive, poetic) To listen to.
  • n. (nautical) A tilting or careening to one side, usually not intentionally / not under a ship's own power.
  • n. (architecture) A tilt to a building.
  • v. (nautical) To tilt to one side.
  • v. (nautical) To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
  • v. (archaic, transitive) To be pleasing to.
  • v. (archaic) To wish, like, desire (to do something).
  • n. (obsolete) Inclination; desire.

position

  • n. A place or location.
  • n. A post of employment; a job.
  • n. A status or rank.
  • n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
  • n. A posture.
  • n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
  • n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
  • n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
  • n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
  • v. To put into place.

proclivity

  • n. A predisposition or natural inclination, propensity, or a predilection; especially, a strong disposition…

propensity

  • n. A tendency, preference, or attraction.

tendency

  • n. A likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward.
  • n. (politics) An organised unit or faction within a larger political organisation.

tilt

  • v. (transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant.
  • v. (jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance.
  • v. (intransitive) To be at an angle.
  • v. (transitive) To point or thrust a weapon at.
  • v. (transitive) To point or thrust (a weapon).
  • v. To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
  • v. (poker) To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck).
  • v. (photography) To move a camera vertically in a controlled way.
  • n. A slope or inclination. (uncountable).
  • n. A jousting contest. (countable).
  • n. A thrust, as with a lance.
  • n. (photography) The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
  • n. An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
  • n. A tilt hammer.
  • n. The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
  • n. A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.
  • n. Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
  • v. (transitive) To cover with a tilt, or awning.

tilted

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of tilt.

tipped

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of tip.

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