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Associations of "Leaned" (30 Words)
angle | Move or be inclined at an angle. He always had a fresh angle on life. |
axis | A fixed reference line for the measurement of coordinates. The leaflets are arranged in rows on a slender axis. |
banister | The structure formed by the uprights and handrail at the side of a staircase. She peered over the banisters. |
bend | A kind of knot used to join two ropes together or to tie a rope to another object e g a carrick bend. The van screeched round a bend. |
bending | The act of bending something. |
bow | Play on a string instrument with a bow. A girl with long hair tied back in a bow. |
condescend | Treat condescendingly. He condescended to see me at my hotel. |
corner | A free hit in field hockey taken from the corner of the field. The huge bookshop on the corner. |
crouch | A crouching stance or posture. Leo was crouched before the fire. |
elevator | The airfoil on the tailplane of an aircraft that makes it ascend or descend. In the harbour a giant elevator stores prairie grain. |
ellipticity | The condition of being elliptic. |
escalator | A stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt. |
fold | Become folded or folded up. The deckchair folds flat. |
gangling | Tall and thin. A gangling youth with a trace of down on his cheeks. |
hypotenuse | The longest side of a right-angled triangle, opposite the right angle. |
incline | An inclined surface or plane a slope especially on a road or railway. He was inclined to accept the offer. |
landing | A place where people and goods can be landed from a boat. He ran across the landing to his bedroom. |
obliquity | The quality of being deceptive. |
recumbent | A type of bicycle designed to be ridden lying almost flat on one’s back. Recumbent statues. |
refraction | The change in direction of a propagating wave (light or sound) when passing from one medium to another. |
skew | Neither parallel nor at right angles to a specified or implied line askew crooked. The lines on the sheet of paper are skewed. |
slant | Present or view (information) from a particular angle, especially in a biased or unfair way. The hedge grew at a slant. |
staircase | A set of stairs and its surrounding walls or structure. He descended the broad staircase. |
stoop | Sag, bend, bend over or down. I won t stoop to reading other people s mail. |
swerve | Turn sharply; change direction abruptly. Do not make sudden swerves particularly around parked vehicles. |
tend | Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something be inclined. She tends to the children. |
theta | The 8th letter of the Greek alphabet. Theta Draconis. |
tilt | Charge with a tilt. The paper s tilt towards the United States. |
wizened | Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness. A wizened little man with frizzy grey hair. |
yaw | Deviate erratically from a set course. The ship yawed when the huge waves hit it. |