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luta — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • lean verb To bend or tilt away from an upright position, or to rest against something for support.
  • lute noun A stringed musical instrument with a rounded, pear-shaped body and a fretted neck, played by plucking.
  • slope noun A stretch of ground that rises or falls at an angle; or the steepness of any such surface or line.
  • tilt verb To lean or slant something, or to be at an angle.

Senses

luta is used for these senses in English:

  • lean To hang outwards.
  • lute A fretted stringed instrument, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
  • slope (intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.
  • tilt (transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant. [1590]

lean — full definition

  1. verb To bend or tilt away from an upright position, or to rest against something for support.
  2. verb To favor or tend toward a particular opinion, choice, or direction.
  3. adjective Having little or no fat; thin and fit.
  4. adjective Having very little of something, especially money or resources; scarce.

lute — full definition

  1. noun A stringed musical instrument with a rounded, pear-shaped body and a fretted neck, played by plucking.
  2. verb To play music on a lute.

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