The difference between Lean and Rich

When used as verbs, lean means to incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position, whereas rich means to enrich.

When used as adjectives, lean means slim, whereas rich means wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.

Lean is also noun with the meaning: an inclination away from the vertical.

check bellow for the other definitions of Lean and Rich

Lean as a verb:

To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.

Examples:

"a leaning column"

"She leaned out of the window."
Lean as a verb:

To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; with to, toward, etc.

Examples:

"I'm leaning towards voting Conservative in the next election."
Lean as a verb:

To rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.; with on, upon, or against.
Lean as a verb:

To hang outwards.
Lean as a verb:

To press against.

Lean as a noun (of an object taller than its width and depth):

An inclination away from the vertical.

Examples:

"The trees had various leans toward gaps in the canopy."

Lean as an adjective (of a person or animal):

Slim; not fleshy.

Examples:

"synonyms: lithe svelte willowy Thesaurus:slender"
Lean as an adjective (of meat):

Having little fat.

Examples:

"'lean steak cuts"
Lean as an adjective:

Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.

Examples:

"synonyms: insufficient scarce sparse Thesaurus:inadequate"

"a lean budget"

"a lean harvest"
Lean as an adjective:

Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.

Examples:

"synonyms: deficient dilute poor"

"ant rich"

"A lean ore hardly worth mining."

"Running on too lean a fuel-air mixture will cause, among other problems, your internal combustion engine to heat up too much."
Lean as an adjective (printing, archaic):

Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed to .

Examples:

"'lean copy, matter, or type"
Lean as an adjective (business):

Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing"

Examples:

"'lean management"

"'lean manufacturing"

"Alcoa is now a lean and agile enterprise, after having split last year into two entities."

Lean as a verb:

To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.

Lean as a noun (slang, US):

A recreational drug based on codeine-laced promethazine cough syrup, popular in the hip hop community in the southeastern United States.

Rich as an adjective:

Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.
Rich as an adjective:

Having an intense fatty or sugary flavour.

Examples:

"a rich dish; rich cream or soup; rich pastry"
Rich as an adjective:

Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.

Examples:

"a rich treasury; a rich entertainment; a rich crop"
Rich as an adjective:

Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful.

Examples:

"rich soil or land; a rich mine"
Rich as an adjective:

Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly.

Examples:

"a rich dress; rich silk or fur; rich presents"
Rich as an adjective:

Not faint or delicate; vivid.

Examples:

"a rich red colour"
Rich as an adjective (informal, dated):

Very amusing.

Examples:

"The scene was a rich one."

"a rich incident or character"

"rfquotek Thackeray"
Rich as an adjective (informal):

Ridiculous, absurd.
Rich as an adjective (computing):

Elaborate, having complex formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.
Rich as an adjective:

Of a fuel-air mixture, having less air than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; less air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.

Rich as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

To enrich.

Examples:

"rfquotek Gower"

"rfquotek Shakespeare"
Rich as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

To become rich.