thin

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

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

   • thin plate of metal; thin paper; thin board; thin covering
   • 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.
2. 2

   Very narrow in all diameters

   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.
3. 3

   Having little body fat or flesh

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

   • thin person
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   1. 4

      Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.

      • Water is thinner than honey.
   2. 5

      Scarce

      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.
   3. 6

      Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the…

      Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.

   4. 7

      Lacking body or volume

      Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.

      • a thin, tight-lipped smile
      • thin, hollow sounds, and lamentable screams
   5. 8

      Slight

      Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.

      • a thin disguise
   6. 9

      Of a route

      Of a route: relatively little used.

      • 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.
   7. 10

      Poor

      Poor; scanty; without money or success.

      • Like their friends the "draggers," the "hoisters" or shoplifters are having a thin time these days, […]
   8. 11

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

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

   9. 12

      Any food produced or served in thin slices.

      • chocolate mint thins
      • potato thins
      • wheat thins
   10. 13

       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.
   11. 14

       To become thin or thinner.

       • The crowds thinned after the procession had passed: there was nothing more to see.
   12. 15

       To dilute.

   13. 16

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

   14. 17

       Not thickly or closely

       Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.

       • seed sown thin
       • Spain is a nation thin sown of people.

The neighborhood

• synonymnarrow
• synonymskinny
• synonymslender
• synonymslim
• synonymsvelte
• synonymwaifish
• synonymscrawny
• synonymwatery
• synonymrunny
• synonymsparse
• synonymdiffuse
• antonymthick
• neighborthinness