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Recliner vs Reclined - What's the difference?

recliner | reclined |

As a noun recliner

is one who, or that which, reclines.

As a verb reclined is

(recline).

recliner

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia recliner)
  • One who, or that which, reclines.
  • A chair hinged so that the back can be reclined for comfort.

    • reclined

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (recline)

    • Anagrams

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    recline

    English

    Verb

  • To cause to lean back; to bend back.
  • To put in a resting position.
    • She reclined her arms on the table and sighed.
  • * Dryden
    • The mother / Reclined her dying head upon his breast.
  • To lean back.
    • to recline against a wall
  • To put oneself in a resting position.
    • to recline on a couch

    Related terms

    * decline; incline; lie down; lie back

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 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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