Lean vs Drive - What's the difference?
lean | drive |
To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; with to'', ''toward , etc.
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
To rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.; with on'', ''upon'', or ''against .
* (1809-1892)
* , chapter=23
, title= To hang outwards.
To press against.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
(of a person or animal) slim; not fleshy.
(of meat) having little fat.
Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
Of a fuel-air mixture, having more air than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; more air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.
(printing, archaic) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed to fat.
To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.
* {{quote-magazine
, year=1938
, month=July
, author=Blaine and Dupont Miller
, title=Weather Hop
, page=25
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* {{quote-magazine
, year=2002
, month=July
, author=Tom Benenson
, title=Can Your Engine Run Too Lean?
, volume=129
, issue=7
, page=73
, magazine=Flying
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To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
* Jowett (Thucyd.)
(intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
To cause animals to flee out of.
To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
(ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
To compel (to do something).
To cause to become.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
(cricket) To hit the ball with a .
To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
To move forcefully.
* Dryden
* Prescott
* Tennyson
* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 29, author=Mark Vesty, work=BBC
, title= To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
* Tennyson
* Sir Philip Sidney
To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
* Collier
To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
* Dryden
(mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
(obsolete) To distrain for rent.
(senseid)Self-motivation; ability coupled with ambition.
Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
* (Matthew Arnold)
An act of driving animals forward, to be captured, hunted etc.
* 1955 , (Robin Jenkins), The Cone-Gatherers , Canongate 2012, p. 79:
(military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent use.
A trip made in a motor vehicle.
A driveway.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive , for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.}}
A type of public roadway.
(dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
(psychology) Desire or interest.
(computing) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk, as a floppy drive.
(computing) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data, as a hard drive, a flash drive.
(golf) A stroke made with a driver.
(baseball) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
(cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
(soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 29, author=Mark Vesty, work=BBC
, title= A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive
(typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
As a proper noun lean
is .As a verb drive is
.lean
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ; via Proto-Indo-European with climate, cline.Verb
- They delight rather to lean to their old customs.
- He leaned not on his fathers but himself.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.}}
- His fainting limbs against an oak he leant .
Derived terms
* lean back * leaning * lean on * lean-toEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- a lean''' budget; a '''lean harvest
- lean copy, matter, or type
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(en verb)citation, passage=He leaned the mixture in an effort to cause a backfire through the carburetor, the generally accepted method of breaking the ice loose. }}
citation, passage=Even the Pilot's Operating Handbooks (POH) for our training airplanes add to our paranoia with their insistence that we not lean the mixture until we're above 5000 feet density altitude. }}
Etymology 3
Icelandic (leyna)?; akin to (etyl) word for "deny". Compare .See also
*References
* *drive
English
Verb
- to drive sheep out of a field
- A storm came on and drove them into Pylos.
- Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails.
- under cover of the night and a driving tempest
- Time driveth onward fast, / And in a little while our lips are dumb.
Wigan 2-2 Arsenal, passage=The impressive Frenchman drove forward with purpose down the right before cutting infield and darting in between Vassiriki Diaby and Koscielny. }}
- enough to drive one mad
- He, driven to dismount, threatened, if I did not do the like, to do as much for my horse as fortune had done for his.
- The trade of life can not be driven without partners.
- (Francis Bacon)
- to drive the country, force the swains away
- (Tomlinson)
Synonyms
* herd * (cause animals to flee out of) * (move something by hitting it with great force) force, push * move, operate * * impel, incentivise/incentivize, motivate, push, urge * (compel) compel, force, oblige, push, require * (cause to become) make, send * (travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle) * takeDerived terms
* bedrive * drink and drive * driveable * drive a coach and horses through * drive a hard bargain * drive at * drive-boat * drive-bolt * drive-by * drivee * drive home * drive-in * drive Irish tandem * drive-line * drive off * drive-off * drive-on * * drive out * drive-pipe * driver * drive-screw * drive-shaft * drive-through, drivethrough * drive time * drive to distraction * drive to drink * drive-train * drive-wheel * drive-yourself * driving * fordrive * let driveNoun
(en noun)- The Murdstonian drive in business.
- Are you all ready?’ he cried, and set off towards the dead ash where the drive would begin.
Wigan 2-2 Arsenal, passage=And after Rodallega missed two early opportunities, the first a header, the second a low drive easily held by Lukasz Fabianski, it was N'Zogbia who created the opening goal. }}