Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bending or curving gradually back from the perpendicular.
- adjective Recumbent.
- adjective a dial whose plane is inclined to the vertical line through its center. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict.).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective which can be
reclined , can be moved into a more horizontal position. - verb Present participle of
recline .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of assuming or maintaining a reclining position
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Examples
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At .23 when you toss the cat toy by him and he gives it a few token bats with his paw while still reclining is hilarious.
Winston isn't normal 2009
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Each time it came, with its soft beauty, its languor of sweetness -- like a word reclining -- it flayed her soul alive, and showed her red, raw bareness.
The Woman with the Fan Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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… that is, if three or four of the kids aren't dead before they're a year old and the rest don't end up in reclining wheelchairs for the whole of their lives with cerebral palsy.
Baby Boom 2009
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He made a fetish of not making new works, yet spent his last twenty years in a single effort -- constructing in secrecy Etant Donnés, a female nude reclining, that is, trapped in a bed of leaves.
Barbara Probst Solomon: Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention 2009
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Taylor, in his translation of this passage, was so strongly imbued with the "grey-headed errour," that in order to elucidate the somewhat obscure meaning of Aristotle, he has actually interpolated the text with the exploded fallacy of Ctesias, and after the word reclining to sleep, has inserted the words "_leaning against some wall or tree_," which are not to be found in the original.]
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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Hideously but not ahorse hats off to tim, who did a phenomenal job septicemic of our slivery confrere mohammedanism, and to hein aka reclining c.
Rational Review 2009
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[*] Though the judge's portrait, reprinted in White Heat, suggests the very antithesis of Byronic romance, it was very likely Lord in whose arms Emily Dickinson was reputedly once seen "reclining" in the Homestead parlor by her scandalized neighbor/sister-in-law Susan Dickinson.
The Woman in White Oates, Joyce Carol 2008
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Perhaps 1,000 feet in length, this "reclining" or "sleeping" Buddha represents the deity passing into Nirvana.
Waking the Buddha 2005
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There remains Situation, which like Possession is confined to a few instances such as reclining and sitting.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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Of course, a sliding or "reclining," as HP puts it display is only as good as the touch-enabled applications that go with it, and HP clearly hopes that its "suite" of TouchSmart apps will do the trick.
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