Not profitable or prosperous; "a lean year" containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance" lacking in mineral content or combustible material; "lean ore"; "lean fuel" lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare 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" cause to lean to the side; "Erosion listed the old tree" rely on for support; "We can lean on this man" have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined; "She tends to be nervous before her lectures"; "These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence" cause to lean or incline; "He leaned his rifle against the wall" to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over the banister"
Unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order; "the agency was created for the implementation of the policy" a routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out (law) the completion of a legal instrument (such as a contract or deed) by signing it (and perhaps sealing and delivering it) so that it becomes legally binding and enforceable (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it; "they criticised his performance as mayor"; "experience generally improves performance" putting a condemned person to death
Endowed with the capacity to reason exercising or showing good judgment; "healthy scepticism"; "a healthy fear of rattlesnakes"; "the healthy attitude of French laws"; "healthy relations between labor and management"; "an intelligent solution"; "a sound approach to the problem"; "sound advice"; "no sound explanation for his decision" possessing sound knowledge; "well-informed readers" having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree; "is there intelligent life in the universe?"; "an intelligent question"
The study of poetic meter and the art of versification