Squat vs Lean - What's the difference?
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Relatively short or low and thick or broad
* Robert Browning
* Grew
* 1927 ,
Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching.
* Milton
A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
* 2006 , Yael Calhoun and Matthew R. Calhoun, Create a Yoga Practice for Kids , page 72:
(weightlifting): A specific exercise in weightlifting performed by bending deeply at the knees and then rising, especially with a barbell resting across the shoulders.
* 2001 , Robert Wolff, Robert Wolff's Book of Great Workouts , page 58-59:
A toilet used by squatting as opposed to sitting; a (squat toilet).
A building occupied without permission, as practiced by a squatter.
* 1996 July 8, Chris Smith, "Live Free or Die", in New York Magazine? , page 36:
(slang) Something of no value; nothing.
* 2003 May 6, "Dear Dotti", ? , volume 24, number 34, page 23:
(obsolete) A sudden or crushing fall.
(mining) A small vein of ore.
A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.
To bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
* 1901 , , chapter II
(weightlifting) To exercise by bending deeply at the knees and then rising, while bearing weight across the shoulders or upper back.
* 1994 , Kurt, Mike, & Brett Brungardt, The Complete Book of Butt and Legs , page 161
To occupy or reside in a place without the permission of the owner.
* 1890 , , chapter VII
To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit.
(dated) To bruise or flatten by a fall; to squash.
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)
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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.
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As an adjective squat
is relatively short or low and thick or broad.As a noun squat
is a position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet or squat can be the angel shark (genus squatina ).As a verb squat
is to bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.As a proper noun lean is
.squat
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) squatten, from (etyl) esquatir, . The sense "nothing" may by a source or a derivation of diddly-squat .Adjective
(squatter)- the round, squat turret
- The head [of the squill insect] is broad and squat .
- On the gentle slopes there are farms, ancient and rocky, with squat , moss-coated cottages brooding eternally over old New England secrets in the lee of great ledges
- Him there they found, / Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve.
Noun
(en noun)- Sit in a squat , with your feet a comfortable distance apart.
- The king of all quad exercises, and arguably the best single-weight resistance exercise, is the squat .
- " If you want to spend a night in a squat , it's all political to get in." Lately, as buildings have filled and become stringent about new admissions, much of the squatters' "My house is your house" rhetoric has become hollow.
- I know squat about nuclear physics.
- We didn't ask for rent, but we assumed they'd help around the house. But they don't do squat .
- (Herbert)
- (Halliwell)
- (Woodward)
Derived terms
* breathing squat * front squat * hack squat * sissy squat * squat snipeVerb
(squatt)- He was not going to squat henlike on his place as the cockies around him did.
- For those who are having, or have had, trouble squatting' we suggest learning how to ' squat by performing the front squatThe front squat allows you almost no alternative but to perform the exercise correctly.
- Huddled together in loathsome files, they squat there over night, or until an inquisitive policeman breaks up the congregation with his club, which in Mulberry Street has always free swing.
Derived terms
* squatter * squattingEtymology 2
Anagrams
* ----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. }}
