Recline vs Recumbent - What's the difference?
recline | recumbent |
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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As a verb recline
is .As an adjective recumbent is
lying down.As a noun recumbent is
a bicycle or tricycle that places the rider in a reclined posture.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
