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What does thin mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. thinadjective

    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"

  2. thin, leanadjective

    lacking excess flesh

    "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare

  3. slender, thinadjective

    very narrow

    "a thin line across the page"

  4. sparse, thinadjective

    not dense

    "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse"

  5. thinadjective

    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"

  6. thinadjective

    (of sound) lacking resonance or volume

    "a thin feeble cry"

  7. thinadjective

    lacking spirit or sincere effort

    "a thin smile"

  8. flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous, thinverb

    lacking substance or significance

    "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"; a fragile claim to fame"

  9. thinverb

    lose thickness; become thin or thinner

  10. thinverb

    make thin or thinner

    "Thin the solution"

  11. dilute, thin, thin out, reduce, cutverb

    lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture

    "cut bourbon"

  12. reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim downadverb

    take off weight

  13. thinly, thinadverb

    without viscosity

    "the blood was flowing thin"

Wiktionary

  1. thinnoun

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

  2. thinverb

    To make thin or thinner

  3. thinverb

    To become thin or thinner

  4. thinverb

    To dilute

  5. thinverb

    To remove some plants in order to improve the growth of those remaining

  6. thinadjective

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

  7. thinadjective

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

  8. thinadjective

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

    thin person

  9. thinadjective

    Of low viscosity or low specific gravity, e.g., as is water compared to honey.

  10. thinadjective

    Scarce.

  11. thinadjective

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

  12. Etymology: thin, from þynne, from þunnuz, (compare þanjanan), from ténh₂us, from tenw(ə)-.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. THINadjective

    Etymology: ðinn , Saxon; thunnur, Islandick; dunn, Dutch.

    Beat gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires. Exod.

    The hope of the ungodly is like thin froth, that is blown away with the wind. Wisd. v. 14.

    In the day when the air is more thin, the sound pierceth better; but when the air is more thick, as in the night, the sound spendeth and spreadeth abroad less. Francis Bacon.

    Understand the same
    Of fish within their wat’ry residence;
    Not hither summon’d, since they cannot change
    Their element, to draw the thinner air. John Milton.

    The waters of Boristhenes are so thin and light, that they swim upon the top of the stream of the river Hypanis. More.

    To warm new milk pour any alkali, the liquor will remain at rest, though it appear somewhat thinner. Arbuthnot.

    He pleas’d the thin and bashful audience
    Of our well-meaning, frugal ancestors. Wentworth Dillon.

    Thou art weak, and full of art is he;
    Else how could he that host seduce to sin,
    Whose fall has left the heav’nly nation thin? Dryden.

    Northward, beyond the mountains we will go,
    Where rocks lie cover’d with eternal snow,
    Thin herbage in the plains, and fruitless fields,
    The sand no gold, the mine no silver yields. Dryden.

    Thin on the tow’rs they stand; and ev’n those few,
    A feeble, fainting, and dejected crew. Dryden.

    Already Cæsar
    Has ravag’d more than half the globe; and sees
    Mankind grown thin by his destructive sword. Addison.

    Seven thin ears blasted with the east wind sprung up. Gen.

    Remove the swelling epithets, thick laid
    As varnish on a harlot’s cheek; the rest
    Thin sown with ought of profit or delight. John Milton.

    Thin leaved arbute hazle-graffs receives,
    And planes huge apples bear that bore but leaves. Dryden.

    I hear the groans of ghosts;
    Thin, hollow sounds, and lamentable screams. Dryden.

    Spain is thin sown of people, by reason of the sterility of the soil and the natives being exhausted in such vast territories as they possess. Francis Bacon.

    Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people. Addison.

    A slim thin gutted fox made a hard shift to wriggle his body into a hen-roost, and when he had stuffed his guts well, the hole was too little to get out again. Roger L'Estrange.

  2. Thinadverb

    Not thickly.

    Fame is the spur, that the clear spirit doth raise,
    That last infirmity of noble mind,
    To scorn delights, and live laborious days;
    But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,
    And think to burst out into sudden blaze,
    Comes the blind fury with th’ abhorred sheers,
    And slits the thin spun life. John Milton.

    A country gentlewoman, if it be like to rain, goes not abroad thin clad. John Locke.

  3. To Thinverb

    Etymology: from the adjective.

    The serum of the blood is neither acid nor alkaline: oil of vitriol thickens, and oil of tartar thins it a little. Arbuthnot.

    The bill against root and branch never passed till both houses were sufficiently thinned and overawed. Charles I .

    T’ unload the branches, or the leaves to thin
    That suck the vital moisture of the vine. Dryden.

    ’Tis Cæsar’s sword has made Rome’s senate little,
    And thinn’d its ranks. Joseph Addison, Cato.

    The vapours by the solar heat
    Thinn’d and exhal’d rise to their airy seat. Richard Blackmore.

ChatGPT

  1. thin

    Thin generally refers to something that has a small or narrow thickness or diameter in relation to its length or width. It can define an object, person, or substance with little thickness, or it could signify scarcity or insufficiency in terms of content, quality, or quantity. In physical appearance, it can denote slim or slender shape or features. The term can also be used metaphorically in various contexts.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Thin

    having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering

  2. Thin

    rare; not dense or thick; -- applied to fluids or soft mixtures; as, thin blood; thin broth; thin air

  3. Thin

    not close; not crowded; not filling the space; not having the individuals of which the thing is composed in a close or compact state; hence, not abundant; as, the trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin

  4. Thin

    not full or well grown; wanting in plumpness

  5. Thin

    not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt; as, a person becomes thin by disease

  6. Thin

    wanting in body or volume; small; feeble; not full

  7. Thin

    slight; small; slender; flimsy; wanting substance or depth or force; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering; as, a thin disguise

  8. Thinadverb

    not thickly or closely; in a seattered state; as, seed sown thin

  9. Thinverb

    to make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective)

  10. Thinverb

    to grow or become thin; -- used with some adverbs, as out, away, etc.; as, geological strata thin out, i. e., gradually diminish in thickness until they disappear

Wikidata

  1. Thin

    The 2006 cinéma vérité documentary film, Thin, directed by Lauren Greenfield and distributed by HBO, is an exploration of The Renfrew Center in Coconut Creek, Florida; a 40-bed residential facility for the treatment of women with eating disorders. The film mostly revolves around four women with anorexia nervosa and/or bulimia and their struggles for recovery. It premiered on HBO on November 14th 2006. THIN is the centerpiece of a multi-faceted campaign designed to explore issues surrounding body image and eating disorders, including a companion book, traveling exhibition of Greenfield's work and a website. Having already shot photographs at Renfrew for her book Girl Culture, Greenfield returned to the facility to direct THIN, her directorial debut, which she produced in collaboration with producer R.J. Cutler. Living at the center for six months, Greenfield and director of photography Amanda Micheli received unrestricted access, filming not just the therapy sessions, mealtimes and daily weigh-ins that construct the highly structured routine of inpatients' daily lives, but also exploring their turbulent interpersonal relationships with each other, with family and with staff. Access to staff meetings allows us insight into the efforts of the Renfrew medical team and the complex tasks facing them.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Thin

    thin, adj. having little thickness: slim: lean: freely mobile: small: fine: not close or crowded: transparent, flimsy, shallow: not full or well grown, meagre, weak.—adv. not thickly or closely: in a scattered state.—v.t. to make thin: to make less close or crowded (with away, out, &c.): to make rare or less thick or dense.—v.i. to grow or become thin:—pr.p. thin′ning; pa.t. and pa.p. thinned.—adj. Thin′-faced (Shak.), having a thin face.—adv. Thin′ly.—n. Thin′ness.—adjs. Thin′nish, somewhat thin; Thin′-skinned, having a thin skin: sensitive: irritable.—n. Thin′-skinned′ness. [A.S. thynne; Ice. thunnr, Ger. dünn.]

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. THIN

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Thin is ranked #94730 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Thin surname appeared 193 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Thin.

    92.2% or 178 total occurrences were Asian.
    3.1% or 6 total occurrences were White.
    2.5% or 5 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'thin' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2041

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'thin' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2643

  3. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'thin' in Adjectives Frequency: #244

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of thin in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of thin in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of thin in a Sentence

  1. Ben Fogle:

    Up at that height, the air is very thin and most of us need supplementary oxygen, you can imagine the fear and the terror when that suddenly explodes.

  2. K. D. Lang:

    Even in the darkest phase be it thick or thin, always someone marches brave here beneath my skin.

  3. Jodi Benson:

    We need to be storytellers, and no matter what we look like on the outside, no matter our race, our nation, the color of our skin, our dialect, whether I'm tall or thin, whether I'm overweight or underweight, or my hair is whatever color, we really need to tell the story.

  4. Stephen Mayer:

    I think pork supply is going to get pretty tight beginning probably next week, even though food service is slow, you're going to see that supply get stretched awfully thin trying to keep retail stores open.

  5. David Gergen:

    As The Trump campaign has evolved over time, Donald Trump has begun to wear a little bit thin, especially voters who want a softer, more gentlemanly approach to politics.

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