Recline vs Lounge - What's the difference?
recline | lounge |
To cause to lean back; to bend back.
To put in a resting position.
* Dryden
To lean back.
To put oneself in a resting position.
* 2013 Dec. 22, Jad Mouawad and Martha C. White, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/23/business/on-jammed-jets-sardines-turn-on-one-another.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 23 December 2013):
*:To gain a little more space, airlines are turning to a new generation of seats that use lighter materials and less padding, moving the magazine pocket above the tray table and even reducing or eliminating the recline in seats.
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A waiting room in an office, airport etc.
A domestic living room.
* 1954 , Alexander Alderson, The Subtle Minotaur , chapter 18:
An establishment, similar to a bar, that serves alcohol and often plays background music or shows television.
A large comfortable seat for two or three people or more, a sofa or couch; also called lounge chair .
The act of one who lounges; idle reclining.
* 1849 , The Knickerbocker (volume 33, page 198)
To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.
* J. Hannay
As a verb recline
is .As a noun lounge is
lounge (waiting room).recline
English
Verb
- She reclined her arms on the table and sighed.
- The mother / Reclined her dying head upon his breast.
- to recline against a wall
- to recline on a couch
Noun
(en noun)lounge
English
Noun
(en noun)- The lounge was furnished in old English oak and big Knole settees. There were rugs from Tabriz and Kerman on the highly polished floor. A table lamp was fashioned from a silver Egyptian hookah.
- That is, he devoted his waking hours to lounges among the habitués of Chestnut-street, and lollings in an arm-chair of 'Squire Coke in Walnut-street.
Synonyms
* (living room) loungeroom (Australia ) * (pub) See alsoVerb
(loung)- We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics.