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US
/ˈθɪn/
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[ UK /θˈɪn/ ]
[ UK /θˈɪn/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
lacking spirit or sincere effort
a thin smile -
relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous
thin oil
skimmed milk is much thinner than whole milk
air is thin at high altitudes
a thin soup -
(of sound) lacking resonance or volume
a thin feeble cry -
of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section
a thin book
a thin chiffon blouse
a thin layer of paint
thin wire -
not dense
trees were sparse
a thin beard -
lacking substance or significance
a tenuous argument
slight evidence
a thin plot
a fragile claim to fame -
lacking excess flesh
you can't be too rich or too thin
Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look -
very narrow
a thin line across the page
VERB
-
lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
cut bourbon - take off weight
-
make thin or thinner
Thin the solution - lose thickness; become thin or thinner
ADVERB
-
without viscosity
the blood was flowing thin
How To Use thin In A Sentence
- Within five years, a unified currency in 1933 the "central" issue of "legal tender" currency has been relatively stable, so Donglai Bank has to resume business.
- A thin veil of fog had rolled in off the bay, obscuring his view and coating the area in a pale gray-white mist.
- You think Spielberg would only have a rattletrap third-rate spaceship like the Millennium Falcon to ensure his survival? Does George Lucas think the world will end in 2012?
- Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
- This is not good for anybody, except for a few curmudgeons and people who are embittered by nothing more than their own embitteredness.
- Before we did anything we wrote and rewrote the script until we felt what we had got written down was a really good story.
- In 1850 Joy and Edward Wilson patented twin boilers working in parallel within the same casing.
- The new taxon is named Gamerabaena, and the authors note, under etymology, "'Gamera refers to the fictional, firebreathing turtle from the 1965 movie Gamera, in allusion to his fire-breathing capabilities and the Hell Creek Formation ... "Look at everything around us. Look at everything we've done."
- It's not because I'm worried about what they might think, or anything ridiculous like that, it's because in a lot of cases this material was intended for me alone - either through an oral tradition or as a gnostic revelation from the spirits.
- Commander Laurel D' ken smiled wryly as the blue haired officer said to Allison, ‘We'll need to nursemaid them a bit but I think they'd be able to manage well enough.’
