"lean form" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that has been simplified, taking out unnecessary details while retaining its essential form. For example, "The novel's lean form made it an engaging read".
With the dialogue shortened, a promising cast and some crisp conducting by Christoph Altstaedt, Die Entführung now hits the road in a leaner form.
The phase inversion process uses a controlled liquid liquid demixing process to separate an otherwise stable polymer solution into a polymer-rich and a polymer-lean phase that forms the matrix and the pores of the polymer film (Schäfer et al. 2005; Schweizer and Kistler 2012; Strathmann and Kock 1977).
With his seamed features and lean, concave form, Nighy looks like a man who has suffered interestingly.
Lean Short form for lean manufacturing minimising waste and maximising flow.
Agile working methods and lean philosophy form the core of Reaktor-practices.
I appreciate a tall, lean, sinewy form, on the feminine side facially, but still strong and masculine.
Pack the soil around the stakes to lean the form in or out if needed to align it with the string line, and if it is necessary, place a gauge block to hold the string clear of the form and gauge the form at frequent intervals to assure the form is straight.
But these lean figures forming perfect rings in the water were, in fact, print designs — like the patterns of waves breaking over brief dresses.
It is an exceptionally graceful design, supported by a single tower made up of two poles, which lean outward, forming a V... Describes how her husband, while dying of cancer nearby at Sloan-Kettering Hospital, "would come over in his bathrobe and sit in the gardens — he said he needed me to take care of him but that I had to do one other thing, and that was to build this bridge".
Her supporting leg, bended at the knee, leans forward, forming another arc that likewise leads to the upturned head.
Part of the allure comes from his finely wrought writing for chamber orchestra, in which solo instruments often combine to form lean contrapuntal textures.
