leaning
- noun
- /ˈlinɪŋ/
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inclinación
- As far as I know, terrorism in Pakistan has gone down in the past year or so, but let an investigative team with no political leanings do that.
Examples
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The name of the store had less to do with the sartorial leanings of the Singh family than with the founder's patron and instructor.
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I'm going to make a counterbalanced structure to allow it to do its leaning in a efficient and repeatable fashion.
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So the shovel is leaning against the fence like this.
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Or the the best role I think is called a leaning, A leaning jowler where it's on it's ear and it's chin great.
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Though at times she’s seemed overly autocratic in her leanings, Bree is a sweet, gentle, intelligent girl.
Blog text (27) -
The ruling lords of one particularly long-lived dynasty developed a specialized Venus cult, with astronomical leanings that paralleled those of the Mithraic cult of early Christian Rome.
Academic text (1995) -
The tower has a noticeable leaning that worries the engineers working on it.
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The leaning of the tree made it difficult for the workers to cut it down safely.
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During the storm, we noticed a dangerous leaning of the old barn towards the road.
Synonyms
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5.0
A slant of a surface or object
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9.1
A tilt of a ship or structure to one side
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2.8
A slant away from a straight or level position
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6.3
The angle or tilt of something compared with a flat line
How far an object leans from a straight up or straight across line
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
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4.0
A round marble bell tower in Pisa that tilts because the ground under it is soft
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Etymology
Leaning comes from an old English word meaning 'to bend' or 'tilt', the same idea behind the simple verb lean. So a leaning is a 'tilt' of an object that makes it not upright.