(v. i.) To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as, she leaned out at the window; a leaning column.
(v. i.) To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; -- with to, toward, etc.
(v. i.) To rest or rely, for support, comfort, and the like; -- with on, upon, or against.
(v. i.) To cause to lean; to incline; to support or rest.
(v. i.) Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; not plump; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle.
(v. i.) Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages.
(v. i.) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to fat; as, lean copy, matter, or type.
(n.) That part of flesh which consist principally of muscle without the fat.
(n.) Unremunerative copy or work.
Example Sentences:
(1) To estimate the age of onset of these differences, and to assess their relationship to abdominal and gluteal adipocyte size, we measured adiposity, adipocyte size, and glucose and insulin concentrations during a glucose tolerance test in lean (less than 20% body fat), prepubertal children from each race.
(2) Cholera toxin-catalysed ADP-ribosylation identified two forms of Gs alpha-subunits whose labelling was about 4-fold greater in membranes from diabetic animals compared with those from lean animals.
(3) The alpha 2 agonist, clonidine, produced a larger dose-related increase in food intake in lean rats than in the fatty rats.
(4) We conclude that both lean and obese former GDM women have insulin secretion defects.
(5) In lean rats, there were no permanent effects of this intervention except for a 25% reduction in carbohydrate intake.
(6) Polydispersity of PS played a vital role in determining variables at the critical state of phase separation, such as the composition of coacervate (dense) and lean phases.
(7) In addition, insulin tolerance tests were performed on 8 lean and 8 obese subjects before and after starvation.
(8) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
(9) Total body fat decreased from 55.8 to 41.4 kg and lean body mass and arm muscle circumference (AMC) remained unchanged.
(10) For now, he leans on the bar – a big man, XL T-shirt – and, in a soft Irish accent, orders himself a small gin and tonic and a bottle of mineral water.
(11) Glucagon concentrations are higher in corpulent rats than lean rats at 3 months of age and decrease progressively with age.
(12) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
(13) Inhibitors of carbohydrate absorption failed to suppress food intake in either obese or lean Zucker rats and had no effect on the parameters of feeding.
(14) And there seems to be party consensus that this is a good thing; a poll released this week by NBC News and Survey Monkey found that 57% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters want Sanders to stay in the race until the convention.
(15) I agree with Sheryl's lean in advice around setting career goals (18 months and life-long) and also how to work with peers and those in more senior positions.
(16) In the obese, modifications in body constitution (higher percentage of fat and lower percentage of lean tissue and water) can affect drug distribution in the tissues.
(17) This report deals with the association between the constituents of lean body mass (LBM) and resting metabolic rate (RMR) before and after a 100-d overfeeding period.
(18) In contrast, glucose utilization in periovarian white adipose tissue was similarly increased in lean and obese rats.
(19) Pioglitazone decreased hyperglycemia and hypertriglyceridemia without affecting hyperinsulinemia in the fatty rats, and significantly reduced plasma levels of triglyceride and insulin without altering normoglycemia in the lean rats.
(20) The circadian rhythm of glycogen metabolism in liver and skeletal muscle was studied in lean and gold thioglucose (GTG) induced-obese mice.
Macerate
Definition:
(v. t.) To make lean; to cause to waste away.
(v. t.) To subdue the appetites of by poor and scanty diet; to mortify.
(v. t.) To soften by steeping in a liquid, with or without heat; to wear away or separate the parts of by steeping; as, to macerate animal or vegetable fiber.
Example Sentences:
(1) Only one E. coli strain, containing two plasmids that encode endo-pectate lyases, exo-pectate lyase, and endo-polygalacturonase, caused limited maceration.
(2) Eight macerated human child skulls with a dental age of approximately 9.5 years (mixed dentition) were consecutively subjected to an experimental standardized high-pull headgear traction system attached to the maxilla at the first permanent molar area via an immovable acrylic resin splint covering all teeth.
(3) A radiologic-pathologic correlative investigation of the normal age-related alterations in the spinous processes and intervening soft tissues was performed using cadaveric spines and both ancient and modern macerated vertebral specimens.
(4) The numbers of spoilage micro-organisms increased throughout storage at 8 degrees C. Carrots macerated in a Stomacher Lab Blender also showed an antilisterial activity which resulted in a decrease in number of viable bacteria and in sublethal damage.
(5) In an attempt to identify the remaining macerating factor(s), a gene library of UM1005 was constructed in Escherichia coli and screened for pectolytic activity.
(6) The export of pectate lyase, polygalacturonase, and cellulase and the maceration of potato tuber tissue occurred with Out+, but not Out-, strains of E. carotovora subsp.
(7) Experimental compression of the skull of the macerated fetus resulted in expulsion of the nervous tissue by way of the vertebral canal and into the retroperitoneal space along the peripheral nerves, with spreading into the adjacent tissues and in blood vessels.
(8) A series of comparative experiments were undertaken by us in order to study the influence of anionic, nonionic and amphoteric detergents on the production of ascitic fluid from macerates of Yoshida sarcoma and fibrosarcoma BUSP.
(9) The finfish livers and entrails were macerated in a Duall tissue grinder containing acetonitrile followed by partitioning of the Kepone into benzene.
(10) Of 93 macerated scapulae that were examined, foramina were observed in 27 specimens (29%).
(11) The mother had previously delivered a macerated, hydropic infant with multiple congenital anomalies.
(12) Intravascular "mulberry-like" bodies in a stillborn female infant with moderate maceration are reported.
(13) Axenic trypomastigotes from macerated gnotobiotic insects were used to infect GF and conventional (CV) mice by intraperitoneal, ocular, and oral routes.
(14) The flexion deformity at the metacarpophalangeal joints of nearly 90 degrees was not correctable passively, and the palmar skin became macerated.
(15) Because of cell maceration and autolysis, the likelihood of successful karyotype analysis of fetal tissue varies inversely with the time between fetal death and delivery.
(16) The effects of sagittal expansion with a cemented expansion appliance were studied in nine noncleft macerated human maxillae ranging from 1-10 years.
(17) The polymannoside was partially solubilized by proteolytic digestion or maceration in sodium dodecyl sulfate-urea mixtures.
(18) When the polymerisation of injected methacrylic resin was completed the specimens were exposed to either chemical or biological maceration of the tissues.
(19) One epidermal layer was scraped off and the mesophyll tissue removed from the epidermis to be studied by maceration in HNO3.
(20) After the cement had set hard, the reproductive tracts were macerated in concentrated acid and the vascular casts resulting were washed clean of digested tissues.