thin

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verb

Thin is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ozone, ↑traffic

Thin is used with these nouns as the object: ↑rank
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adj.

1 of solid things: not thick

VERBS

▪ be, feel, look, seem

▪ become, wear

▪ The fabric was wearing thin.

▪ That joke is wearing a little thin. (figurative)

ADVERB

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪ incredibly

▪ a little, slightly, etc.

2 not fat

VERBS

▪ be, look

▪ become, get, grow

▪ stay

▪ How do you manage to stay so thin?

ADVERB

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪ She's tall and rather thin.

▪ dangerously, painfully

▪ The old horse was painfully thin.

3 of liquids

VERBS

▪ be, look, seem

▪ The paint looks a little thin.

▪ become, get

▪ Be careful that the mixture doesn't get too thin.

ADVERB

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪ a little, slightly, etc.

4 of poor quality

VERBS

▪ be, seem

▪ The evidence seems awfully thin.

▪ become, grow, run

▪ My patience is running thin.

▪ remain

ADVERB

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪ dangerously, perilously

▪ The team is dangerously thin at wide receiver.

PHRASES

▪ spread sth (too) thin, stretch sth (too) thin

▪ You can spread yourself too thin, often leading to poor choices.

▪ His management team was stretched thin.

▪ thin on the ground (BrE)

▪ Jobs were still a bit thin on the ground (= not many were available).

▪ thin on top

▪ He's getting a little thin on top (= losing his hair).

Thin is used with these nouns: ↑air, ↑arm, ↑atmosphere, ↑beam, ↑belt, ↑blade, ↑blanket, ↑body, ↑build, ↑cardboard, ↑chain, ↑coat, ↑coating, ↑consistency, ↑cord, ↑cotton, ↑cover, ↑crack, ↑crust, ↑deposit, ↑disguise, ↑duvet, ↑eyebrow, ↑fabric, ↑face, ↑film, ↑finger, ↑frame, ↑haze, ↑ice, ↑jacket, ↑jumper, ↑layer, ↑leather, ↑leg, ↑limb, ↑line, ↑lip, ↑liquid, ↑man, ↑margin, ↑material, ↑mattress, ↑membrane, ↑mist, ↑moustache, ↑mouth, ↑neck, ↑needle, ↑nose, ↑paint, ↑paper, ↑plastic, ↑ribbon, ↑sauce, ↑scale, ↑scar, ↑shawl, ↑sheet, ↑shoulder, ↑shred, ↑silk, ↑skin, ↑skull, ↑slice, ↑smile, ↑sock, ↑soil, ↑sole, ↑soup, ↑stem, ↑stick, ↑strand, ↑strap, ↑stream, ↑strip, ↑stripe, ↑stroke, ↑sweater, ↑thread, ↑trail, ↑trickle, ↑tube, ↑veil, ↑veneer, ↑voice, ↑waist, ↑wall, ↑wire, ↑wrist

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Synonyms:

Not thick (in measure), Make thin / Slender, slim, meagre, lean, poor, gaunt, scraggy, skinny, lank, scrawny, shrunk, emaciated, Rarefy, attenuate, dilute, make less dense / Meagre, poor, slender, not well-grown / Fine, slender, small, tenuous, delicate, thread-like, fine-spun / Rare, subtile, attenuated, dilute, tenuous / Sparse, scanty / Slight, flimsy, light, gossamery, delicate, unsubstantial / Small, fine, faint, low, feeble, slight, light

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thin´ly — thin «thihn», adjective, thin|ner, thin|nest, adverb, verb, thinned, thin|ning, noun. –adj. 1. with little space from one side to the opposite side; not thick: »a thin book, thin paper, thin wire. The ice o … Useful english dictionary
Thin — Thin, a. [Compar. {Thiner}; superl. {Thinest}.] [OE. thinne, thenne, thunne, AS. [thorn]ynne; akin to D. dun, G. d[ u]nn, OHG. dunni, Icel. [thorn]unnr, Sw. tunn, Dan. tynd, Gael. & Ir. tana, W. teneu, L. tenuis, Gr. ? (in comp.) stretched out, ? … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
thin — [θɪn] adjective JOURNALISM if trading on a financial market is thin, there is not much activity: • Trade was thin in the currency markets yesterday, heading into a Japanese long weekend. * * * thin UK US /θɪn/ adjective (thinner, thinnest) ►… … Financial and business terms
thin — [thin] adj. thinner, thinnest [ME thinne < OE thynne, akin to Ger dünn < IE * tenu , thin < base * ten , to stretch > L tenuis, thin, tenere, to hold, tendere & Gr teinein, to stretch] 1. having relatively little depth; of little… … English World dictionary
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… … Wikipedia
Thin — Photo bienvenue Merci Caractéristiques Longueur 22,1 km Bassin 93,5 km2 Bassin collecteur Meuse Débit moyen 1,33 m3 … Wikipédia en Français
thin — [adj1] fine, light, slender attenuate, attenuated, beanpole*, beanstalk*, bony*, cadaverous, delicate, emaciated, ethereal, featherweight, fragile, gangling, gangly, gaunt, haggard, lank, lanky, lean, lightweight, meager, narrow, peaked, pinched … New thesaurus
thin — ► ADJECTIVE (thinner, thinnest) 1) having opposite surfaces or sides close together. 2) (of a garment or fabric) made of light material. 3) having little flesh or fat on the body. 4) having few parts or members relative to the area covered or… … English terms dictionary
thin — vb Thin, attenuate, extenuate, dilute, rarefy. Thin is the most inclusive of these terms and is interchangeable with any of the others, though not without some loss of precision or of specific connotations. Basically it implies reduction in… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
thin — O.E. þynne narrow, lean, scanty, from P.Gmc. *thunnuz, *thunw (Cf. W.Fris. ten, M.L.G. dunne, Du. dun, O.H.G. dunni, Ger. dünn, O.N. þunnr), from PIE *tnus , *tnwi , from weak grade of root *ten stretch (Cf. L. tenuis … Etymology dictionary
Thin — Thin, adv. Not thickly or closely; in a seattered state; as, seed sown thin. [1913 Webster] Spain is thin sown of people. Bacon. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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