thin
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
philately
physical-sciences
sports
Etymology: From Middle English thinne, thünne, thenne, from Old English þynne, from Proto-West Germanic *þunnī, from Proto-Germanic *þunnuz (“thin”) – compare *þanjaną (“to stretch, spread out”) – from Proto-Indo-European *ténh₂us (“thin”), from *ten- (“to stretch”).
Cognate with German dünn, Dutch dun, West Frisian tin, Icelandic þunnur, Danish tynd, Swedish tunn, Latin tenuis, Irish tanaí, Welsh tenau, Latvian tievs, Polish cienki, Russian тонкий (tonkij), Sanskrit तनु (tanú, “thin”), Persian تنگ (tang, “narrow”). Doublet of tenuis. Also related to tenuous.
Inflected forms:
form: thinner
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: thinnest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: thins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: thinning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: thinned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: thinned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more thin
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most thin
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
pos: adj
examples: thin plate of metal; thin paper; thin board; thin covering
It was no mystery at all, or a mystery covered only with the thinnest and most transparent veil, that forced abortion is a common practice among Turkish women. The horrible secret as to the means and the drugs to be employed is pretty generally known, and where ignorance prevails there are "wise women," old hags, professional abortists, who go about the country relieving matrons of their burthens for a few piastres apiece […]
Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin.
The newest form of gold created in a lab is the thickness of two atoms, according to a new study. It’s only 0.47 nanometers thick, which is one million times thinner than a human finger nail. […] This makes it the thinnest unsupported gold ever created and it could be used in electronics and medical devices going forward.
The gold is made up of two layers of atoms stacked on top of each other. But don’t let the thin structure fool you.
gloss: Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
pos: adj
examples: thin wire; thin string
Typically, osteoporosis causes the amount of trabecular bone to be reduced and the bone to become thinner, while the intertrabecular space enlarges and the interconnected structure of trabecular bone is disrupted.
gloss: Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
pos: adj
examples: thin person
gloss: Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.
pos: adj
examples: Water is thinner than honey.
gloss: Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
pos: adj
examples: The trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin.
Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people.
gloss: Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
pos: adj
gloss: Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
pos: adj
examples: a thin, tight-lipped smile
thin, hollow sounds, and lamentable screams
gloss: Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
pos: adj
examples: a thin disguise
gloss: Of a route: relatively little used.
pos: adj
examples: In short, we previously found that thin routes benefit from an increase in competition in the Spanish airline market when considering routes that were monopoly routes in 2001.
gloss: Poor; scanty; without money or success.
pos: adj
examples: Like their friends the "draggers," the "hoisters" or shoplifters are having a thin time these days, […]
gloss: A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.
pos: noun
gloss: Any food produced or served in thin slices.
pos: noun
examples: chocolate mint thins
potato thins
wheat thins
gloss: To make thin or thinner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Exhausted fathers thinned the blood,
You curse the legacy of pain;
Darling of an infected brood,
You feel disaster climb the vein.
gloss: To become thin or thinner.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The crowds thinned after the procession had passed: there was nothing more to see.
gloss: To dilute.
pos: verb
gloss: To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
pos: verb
examples: So floriferous are Asian pears, and the tree so laden with young fruit, that as the tree approaches maturity it is worth considering thinning the fruit (I can't quite bring myself to thin the flowers) so as to neither overburden the tree for this year nor tire it for the next. Thinning early in the season, while the fruit is small, is ideal.
gloss: Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.
pos: adv
examples: seed sown thin
Spain is a nation thin sown of people.
Synonyms: skinny
slender
slim
svelte
waifish
scrawny
watery
sparse
Antonyms: thick
Related words: thinness
Derived words: gossamer-thin
have a thin time of it
into thin air
microthin
nanothin
nonthin
on thin ice
out of thin air
overthin
paper-thin
pencil-thin
prethin
quasithin
rail-thin
razor thin
razor-thin
run thin
semithin
skate on thin ice
spread oneself thin
spread oneself too thin
stick-thin
stretch thin
superthin
thick and thin
thick-and-thin block
thin air
thin as a barber's cat
thin as a rail
thin as a rake
thin as a wafer
thin as a yard of pump water
thin-bladed
thin blue line
thinclad
thin client
thincoat
thin computing
thin content
thin-crust pizza
thin edge of the wedge
thin end of the wedge
thin film
thin-film
thin-layer chromatography
thin layer chromatography
thinly
thinnet
thinnish
thinny
thin on the ground
thin paper
thin sandwich course
thin sandwich degree
thin section
thin shaming
thin skin
thin-skinned
thin-skinnedness
thin skull rule
thin-slice
thin slice
thin-slicing
thin space
thinspiration
thinsplain
thinspo
thin the herd
thin trading
thinwire
through thick and thin
ultrathin
wafer-thin
wear thin
thin down
thinnable
thinner
thin out
thin up
unthinned
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