Dictionary Definition
thin adj
1 of relatively small extent from one surface to
the opposite or in cross section; "thin wire"; "a thin chiffon
blouse"; "a thin book"; "a thin layer of paint" [ant: thick]
2 lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or
too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
[syn: lean] [ant: fat]
3 very narrow; "a thin line across the page"
[syn: slender]
4 having little substance or significance; "a
flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin
plot" [syn: flimsy,
slight, tenuous]
5 not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse"
[syn: sparse]
6 relatively thin in consistency or low in
density; not viscous; "air is thin at high altitudes"; "a thin
soup"; "skimmed milk is much thinner than whole milk"; "thin oil"
[ant: thick]
7 (of sound) lacking resonance or volume; "a thin
feeble cry" [ant: full]
8 lacking spirit or sincere effort; "a thin
smile" adv : without viscosity; "the blood was flowing thin" [syn:
thinly] [ant: thickly]
Verb
1 lose thickness; become thin or thinner [ant:
thicken]
2 make thin or thinner; "Thin the solution" [ant:
thicken]
3 lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or
mixture; "cut bourbon" [syn: dilute, thin out,
reduce, cut]
4 take off weight [syn: reduce, melt off,
lose
weight, slim, slenderize, slim down]
[ant: gain] [also: thinning, thinned, thinnest, thinner]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /'θɪn/
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- Rhymes: -ɪn
Etymology
Old English þynneAdjective
Antonyms
Translations
slim, narrow in size
- Finnish: ohut (things), hoikka, solakka, laiha (living creatures)
- French: maigre
- Hungarian: vékony, sovány
- Japanese: In the context of "of flat objects}} 薄い 細い
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: باریک, تهنک
- Russian: тонкий (tónkij), тощий (tóš'ij) of a man or animal
- Swedish: mager (person or animal), slank (person or animal), smal, tunn
of low viscosity or low specific gravity
- Czech: řídký
- Finnish: ohut, laiha
- Hungarian: híg
- Japanese: 薄い, 稀な
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: شل
- Russian: жидкий
scarce
- Finnish: niukka, harva, vähälukuinen
- Japanese: 薄い
overly strict
golf: a poorly played golf shot
- Japanese: シャンクした
- ttbc Arabic:
- ttbc Breton: moan
- ttbc Chinese: 瘦 (shòu)
- ttbc Dutch: dun, smal, slank, ijl (for air)
- ttbc French: mince
- ttbc German: dünn
- ttbc Ido: dina
- ttbc Indonesian: kurus (of persons, etc.), tipis (of books, etc.)
- ttbc Interlingua: tenue (slender); magre (lean); rar (as of hair)
- ttbc Irish: caol
- ttbc Italian: sottile
- ttbc Korean: 얇은 (yalbeun)
- ttbc Portuguese: fino , fina , tênue & (slender); magro , magra (lean); ralo , rala (as of hair)
- ttbc Scottish Gaelic: caol, gann (of hair)
- ttbc Spanish: delgado, flaco
- ttbc Swedish: tunn
- ttbc Telugu: పలుచని (paluchani)
See also
Translations
make thinner
- Japanese: 削る
become thinner
- Japanese: In the context of "of persons, animal, etc.}} 痩せる
dilute
- Japanese: 薄める
- Swedish: späda
Extensive Definition
Thin may refer to:
- Thin client, computer in client-server architecture networks
- Thin film, material layer of about 1 µm thickness
- Thin film memory, high-speed variation of core memory developed by Sperry Rand in a government-funded research project
- Thin layers (oceanography), congregations of phytoplankton and zooplankton in the water column
- Thin lens, lens with a thickness that is negligible compared to the focal length of the lens in optics
- Thin Lizzy, Irish rock band who formed in Dublin in 1969
- Thin-film deposition, any technique for depositing a thin film of material onto a substrate or onto previously deposited layers
- The Thin Man, 1933 mystery novel by Dashiell Hammett
- The Thin Man (film), the first of six comic detective films starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
- Thin (film), an HBO television documentary about eating disorders.
- Thin, a Ruby web-server based on Mongrel
See also
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Lenten,
Sanforize, Sanforized, Spartan, a bit thick, a bit
thin, abate, abrade, abstemious, abstract, absurd, acute, adulterate, adulterated, airy, ankle-deep, argute, ascetic, atomic, attenuate, attenuated, austere, backset, baptize, bate, beyond belief, blow off,
bony, boyish, cadaverous, cast forth,
cheeseparing,
chiffon, chinchy, chintzy, clear, clear as crystal, clear
away, colliquate,
consume, consumed, corky, corpuscular, creaky, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, cultivate, culture, cursory, curtail, cut, cut down, dainty, dead, decoagulate, decoct, decrease, deduct, deficient, delicate, deliquesce, delve, depreciate, depthless, derogate, detract, diaphane, diaphanous, diffuse, dig, dilute, diluted, diminish, disparage, dispel, dispersed, dissipate, dissolve, doubtable, doubtful, drain, draw out, dress, dried-up, drive away, dry
up, dubious, dubitable, dwarfed, dwarfish, ear-piercing, eat
away, emacerate,
emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, embryonic, epidermal, erode, ethereal, etherealize, evanescent, evaporate, exiguous, expand, extenuate, extract, fade, fallow, feeble, fertilize, file away, filmy, fine, finespun, flat, flavorless, flimsy, fluidify, fluidize, flux, force, fragile, frail, frugal, fuse, gangling, gaseous, gaunt, gauzy, germinal, girlish, gossamer, gossamery, gracile, granular, gruelly, half-starved, hard of
belief, hard to believe, harrow, high, high-pitched, hoe, hold in solution, howling, impair, impalpable, imperceptible, implausible, imponderable, impoverished, improbable, inadequate, inane, inappreciable, inconceivable, incredible, indifferent, indiscernible, infinitesimal, infrequent, infuse, insipid, insubstantial, insufficient, intangible, invisible, irrigate, jejune, keen, keening, knee-deep, lacy, lame, lank, lanky, leach, lean, lessen, light, light-pervious, limited, limpid, liquefy, liquesce, liquidize, list, lixiviate, lucid, macerate, meager, meagerly, mean, melt, melt down, microcosmic, microscopic, mild, milk-and-water, miserly, misty, molecular, mulch, narrow, niggardly, nonopaque, not deep, not
deserving belief, on the surface, open to doubt, open to suspicion,
paltry, papery, pappy, parch, parched, parsimonious, passing
belief, peekaboo,
pellucid, penetrating, percolate, piddling, piercing, pinched, piping, plow, poor, preposterous, preshrink, preshrunk, problematic, prune, pulpy, puny, purify, questionable, rake, rare, rarefied, rarefy, reduce, reedy, refine, refined, remove, retrench, revealing, ridiculous, rub away,
run, sapless, savorless, scant, scantily, scanty, scarce, scattered, scraggy, scrawny, screaky, screeching, screechy, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, sear, see-through, seldom met with,
seldom seen, shallow,
shallow-rooted, sharp,
sharpen, sheer, shoal, shorten, shrieking, shrieky, shrill, shrink, shrivel, shriveled, shriveled up,
shrunk, shrunken, silken, silky, skeletal, skimp, skimping, skimpy, skin-deep, skinny, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, solubilize, solve, spade, spare, sparing, sparingly, sparse, sparsely, spiceless, spindly, spotty, sprinkled, squeaking, squeaky, staggering belief,
stale, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subatomic, subduct, subsistence, subtile, subtilize, subtle, subtract, superficial, surface, suspect, suspicious, svelte, sylphlike, take away, take
from, tall, tasteless, tenuous, thaw, thick, thin, thin away, thin down, thin
out, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinned, thinned-out, thinnish, threadlike, tight, till, till the soil, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, treble, trim, trivial, twiggy, ultramicroscopic,
ululant, unbelievable, unclot, unclouded, uncommon, uncompact, uncompressed, unconvincing, underfed, undernourished, undersized, underweight, unearthly, unflavored, ungodly, unimaginable, unimportant, unnourishing, unnutritious, unprofound, unsatisfying, unsavory, unseeable, unsubstantial, untenable, unthinkable, unusual, unworthy of belief,
vague, vapid, vaporous, volatilize, wailing, washy, wasp-waisted, waste, waste away, wasted, wasted away, water, water down, watered, watered-down, waterish, watery, weak, weaken, wear away, weazen, weazened, weed, weed out, whining, whistling, willowy, windy, wiredrawn, wishy-washy,
wispy, withdraw, wither, withered, wizen, wizen-faced, wizened, work, worthless