Phrase Hound found 10 phrases and 5 compound words that contain leaning. The most common are listed below. Open leaning in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 10
- Leaning Tower of PisaA famous bell tower in the Italian town of Pisa, known for its irregular lean.
- leaning towardspresent participle and gerund of lean towards
- Leaning TowerAlternative form of Leaning Tower of Pisa, a bell tower in Pisa, Italy.
- forward-leaningDisposed to take action or to exercise initiative; aggressive; bold.
- left-leaningOn the left wing politically.
- leaning over backwardspresent participle and gerund of lean over backwards
- leaning tower illusionAn optical illusion where, given a pair of identical images of an object rising in perspective, the one on the right appears to be leaning more.
- leaning toothpick syndromeThe situation in which a quoted string expression becomes difficult to read because it contains a large number of escape characters, usually backslashes, to avoid delimiter collision.
- leaning boardAn item of furniture like a flat bench, but positioned at a vertical diagonal, and often with attached arm-rests. Popularized in the early era of Hollywood film, where they allowed actresses in elaborate costumes to rest without becoming …
- leaning boardsplural of leaning board: An item of furniture like a flat bench, but positioned at a vertical diagonal, and often with attached arm-rests. Popularized in the early era of Hollywood film, where they allowed actresses in elaborate costumes …
Compound words 5
- leaninglyWith a leaning motion or posture.
- miscleaningpresent participle and gerund of misclean
- outleaningpresent participle and gerund of outlean
- overleaningpresent participle and gerund of overlean
- recleaningpresent participle and gerund of reclean