The difference between Lean and Syrup
When used as nouns, lean means an inclination away from the vertical, whereas syrup means any thick liquid that is added to or poured over food as a flavouring and has a high sugar content.
Lean is also verb with the meaning: to incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position.
Lean is also adjective with the meaning: slim.
check bellow for the other definitions of Lean and Syrup
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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."
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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."
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Lean as a verb:
To rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.; with on, upon, or against.
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Lean as a verb:
To hang outwards.
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Lean as a verb:
To press against.
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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."
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Lean as an adjective (of a person or animal):
Slim; not fleshy.
Examples:
"synonyms: lithe svelte willowy Thesaurus:slender"
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Lean as an adjective (of meat):
Having little fat.
Examples:
"'lean steak cuts"
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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"
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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."
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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"
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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."
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Lean as a noun:
Meat with no fat on it.
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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.
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Lean as a verb:
To conceal.
Examples:
"rfquotek Ray"
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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.
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Syrup as a noun:
Any thick liquid that is added to or poured over food as a flavouring and has a high sugar content.
Examples:
"maple syrup"
"pancake syrup"
"peaches in syrup"
"cough syrup"
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Syrup as a noun:
Any viscous liquid.
Examples:
"rose syrup = [[rosewater]]"
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Syrup as a noun (Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from "[[syrup of figs]]"):
A wig.