knockdown vs lean

knockdown

noun
  • a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet. 

  • The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface. 

  • An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down. 

  • A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room. 

  • A collection of parts required to assemble a product, typically manufactured in one region and exported elsewhere for assembly. 

  • A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced. 

  • The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene. 

  • An overwhelming blow. 

verb
  • To employ the knockdown technique 

adj
  • To be formed into a head by upsetting in fastening. 

  • reduced in price, originally to a price below which an article would not be sold by the auctioneer 

  • powerful enough to overwhelm or knock down 

  • Capable of being taken apart for packing or removal. 

lean

noun
  • An inclination away from the vertical. 

  • An organism that is lean in stature. 

  • Meat with no fat on it. 

  • A recreational drug based on codeine-laced promethazine cough syrup, especially popular in the hip hop community in the southeastern United States. 

adj
  • Having little fat. 

  • Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre. 

  • Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient. 

  • Slim; not fleshy. 

  • Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing". 

verb
  • To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating. 

  • To hang outwards. 

  • To conceal. 

  • Followed by against, on, or upon: to rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc. 

  • To press against. 

  • To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen. 

  • To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc. 

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