Difference between Lean and Run

What is the difference between Lean and Run?

Lean as an adjective is slim; not fleshy. while Run as an adjective is in a liquid state; melted; molten.

Lean

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: slim; not fleshy. having little fat. Having little extra or little to spare. 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.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To hang outwards. To press against.

Example sentence: What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

Run

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: In a liquid state; melted; molten.Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out".)

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of running.The route taken while running.A flow of liquid; a leak.A small creek or part thereof.The amount of something made.The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.A production quantity in a factory.A pace faster than a walk.A fast gallop.An interval of distance or time, a period marked by a continuing trend.A series of tries in a game that were successful.A regular trip or route.A standard or unexceptional group or category.An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.An errand or the journey associated with an errand.A pleasure trip.A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.A point scored in baseball and cricket.A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.Any sudden large demand for something.Unrestricted use of an area.Stockings with a run in them (sense 24) A line of knit stitches that has unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.horizontal dimension of a slope.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off of either foot, compare: walk.To go at a fast pace, to move quickly.To move or spread quickly.To cause to move quickly; to make move lightly.To control or manage, be in charge of.Of a liquid, to flow.Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from an object.To extend in space or through a range of possibilities (often with a measure phrase).To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).To make something extend in space.Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.To make a machine operate.To execute or carry out a plan, procedure or program.To compete in a race.To be a candidate in an election.To make run in a race or an election.To be offered in one of the media.To print or broadcast in the media.To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion , to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).To go through without stopping, usually illegally.To transport someone or something.To smuggle illegal goods.To cost a large amount of money.Of fish, to migrate for spawning.To carry a football down the field.Of stitches, to unravel.To flee away from a danger or towards help.To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.To control or have precedence in a card game.To run.

Example sentence: Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

We hope you now know whether to use Lean or Run in your sentence.

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