thin

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/θɪn/

adj 5verb 4noun 2adv 1

Collocations

(adj.) of solid things: not thick

VERBS

be, feel, look, seem

become, wear

My patience was wearing thin after waiting two hours for the bus.

ADV

extremely, incredibly, very, wafer-

The ice on the lake was incredibly thin, so we stayed on the shore.

a bit, fairly, a little, quite, rather, relatively

enough

The ice on the lake was thin enough to crack under our feet.

(adj.) not fat

VERBS

be, look | become, get, grow

ADV

extremely, painfully, pathetically, pitifully, terribly, very

After months of illness, she had become terribly thin and weak.

fairly, quite, rather

My brother was rather thin when he returned from his trip abroad.

(adj.) of liquids

VERBS

be, look, seem

His new sweater seemed thin for such cold winter weather.

become, get

The sauce will become thin if you add too much water to it.

ADV

terribly, very | a bit, rather

Definitions

adj

Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.

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 […]

Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.

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.

Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.

thin person

Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.

Water is thinner than honey.

Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.

The trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin.

Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people.

noun

A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.

Any food produced or served in thin slices.

chocolate mint thins

potato thins

verb

To make thin or thinner.

Exhausted fathers thinned the blood, You curse the legacy of pain; Darling of an infected brood, You feel disaster climb the vein.

To become thin or thinner.

The crowds thinned after the procession had passed: there was nothing more to see.

To dilute.

To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.

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.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

verb — take off weight

reduce
slim
slenderize

verb — lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture

adjective — not dense

sparse

adjective — lacking excess flesh

lean

adjective — lacking substance or significance

adjective — very narrow

slender

adverb — without viscosity

thinly

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

thick and thin

Both thickets and thin woodland; all obstacles in a path (including bad weather).

His tyreling Jade he fiersly forth did push / Through thicke and thin, both over banck and bush [...]

skate on thin ice

To be (or to place oneself) in a risky, potentially dangerous or delicate situation.

If I concur to that I will be skating on thin ice.

on thin ice

In a dangerous, hazardous, or delicate situation; at risk.

Ever since he was caught stealing office supplies, he has been on thin ice with his boss.

thin end of the wedge

Something that if allowed or accepted to a small degree would lead to systematic encroachment.

The MP told parliament that legalising cannabis would be the thin end of the wedge.

into thin air

Immediately and inexplicably out of sight.

He seemed to vanish into thin air.

Example Bank

thin plate of metal; thin paper; thin board; thin covering

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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

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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.

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chocolate mint thins

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potato thins

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wheat thins

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