Lean vs. Leave — What's the Difference?

Be in or move into a sloping position

Go away from

A deviation from the perpendicular; an inclination

Allow or cause to remain

The lean part of meat

Cause (someone or something) to be in a particular state or position

(of a person or animal) thin, especially healthily so; having no superfluous fat

(of a plant) put out new leaves

Offering little reward, substance, or nourishment; meagre

(in snooker, croquet, and other games) the position in which a player leaves the balls for the next player.

(of a vaporized fuel mixture) having a high proportion of air

Time when one has permission to be absent from work or from duty in the armed forces

To bend or slant away from the vertical.

Permission

To incline the weight of the body so as to be supported

To go out of or away from

To rely for assistance or support

To go without taking or removing

To have a tendency or preference

To omit or exclude

(Informal) To exert pressure

To have as a result, consequence, or remainder

To set or place so as to be resting or supported

To cause or allow to be or remain in a specified state

To cause to incline

To have remaining after death

A tilt or an inclination away from the vertical.

To bequeath

Meat with little or no fat.

To give over to another to control or act on

Not fleshy or fat; thin.

To abandon or forsake

Containing little fat or less fat relative to a standard

To remove oneself from association with or participation in

Not productive or prosperous; meager

To give or deposit, as for use or information, upon one's departure or in one's absence

Containing little excess or waste; spare

To cause or permit to be or remain

Thrifty in management, especially by employing just enough people to accomplish a task or do business

(Nonstandard) To allow or permit; let.

(Metallurgy) Low in mineral contents

To set out or depart; go

(Chemistry) Lacking in combustible material

To put forth foliage; leaf.

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

Permission to do something.

(copulative) To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.

An act of departing; a farewell

Followed by against, on, or upon: to rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.

See leave of absence.

To hang outwards.

To have a consequence or remnant.

To press against.

(transitive) To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.

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

To cause, to result in.

To conceal.

(transitive) To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.

(of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.

To depart; to separate from.

(uncountable) Meat with no fat on it.

To let be or do without interference.

An organism that is lean in stature.

(transitive) To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.

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

(transitive) To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).

(of a person or animal) Slim; not fleshy.

(intransitive) To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.

(of meat) Having little fat.

To transfer something.

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

(transitive) To transfer possession of after death.

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

(transitive) To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.

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

(transitive) To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.

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

To remain (behind); to stay.

To conceal.

To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).

To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as, she leaned out at the window; a leaning column.

(transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.

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

To produce leaves or foliage.

To rest or rely, for support, comfort, and the like; - with on, upon, or against.

(obsolete) To raise; to levy.

To cause to lean; to incline; to support or rest.

(cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.

Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; slim; not plump; slender; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle.

(billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).

Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; - used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages.

Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.

Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; - opposed to fat; as, lean copy, matter, or type.

Permission.

That part of flesh which consists principally of muscle without the fat.

(dated) Farewell, departure.

Unremunerative copy or work.

To send out leaves; to leaf; - often with out.

The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical;

To raise; to levy.

To incline or bend from a vertical position;

To withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart from; as, to leave the house.

Cause to lean or incline;

To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed.

Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined;

To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from.

Rely on for support;

To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to relinquish.

Cause to lean to the side;

To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge.

Lacking excess flesh;

To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver; to commit; to submit - with a sense of withdrawing one's self from; as, leave your hat in the hall; we left our cards; to leave the matter to arbitrators.

Lacking in mineral content or combustible material;

To have remaining at death; hence, to bequeath; as, he left a large estate; he left a good name; he left a legacy to his niece.

Containing little excess;

To cause to be; - followed by an adjective or adverb describing a state or condition; as, the losses due to fire leave me penniless; The cost of defending himself left Bill Clinton with a mountain of lawyers' bills.

Low in mineral content;

To depart; to set out.

Not profitable or prosperous;

To cease; to desist; to leave off.

Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license.

The act of leaving or departing; a formal parting; a leaving; farewell; adieu; - used chiefly in the phrase, to take leave, i. e., literally, to take permission to go.

The period of time during which you are absent from work or duty;

Permission to do something;

The act of departing politely;

Go away from a place;

Go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness;

Act or be so as to become in a specified state;

Leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking;

Move out of or depart from;

Make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain;

Result in;

Remove oneself from an association with or participation in;

Put into the care or protection of someone;

Leave or give by will after one's death;

Have left or have as a remainder;

Be survived by after one's death;

Tell or deposit (information) knowledge;

Leave behind unintentionally;