noun
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A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.
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Any food produced or served in thin slices.
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chocolate mint thins
verb
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To make thin or thinner.
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To become thin or thinner.
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The crowds thinned after the procession had passed: there was nothing more to see.
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To dilute.
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To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
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Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
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thin plate of metal; thin paper; thin board; thin covering
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Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
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thin wire; thin string
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Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
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thin person
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Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.
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Water is thinner than honey.
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Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
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The trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin.
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Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
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Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
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Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
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a thin disguise
adverb
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Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.
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seed sown thin
Examples of thin in a Sentence
You're skating on thin ice, Mr. Juror.
I know you're trying to stay fashionably thin, but the truth is...
He was thin and pale.
Jackson forced a thin smile.
He glanced up at her; the sun darkened face with its thin lips completely devoid of emotion.
Sure she was thin, but it wasn't a deliberate condition.
The thin pipes didn't look strong enough to hold him.
Not a single muscle of his face--which in those days was still thin--moved.
The princess, holding her little dog on her lap with her thin bony hands, looked attentively into Prince Vasili's eyes evidently resolved not to be the first to break silence, if she had to wait till morning.
She wore a camisole and shorts, her large breasts straining at the thin fabric between them.
Teredo navalis, it has been found necessary, for depths not exceeding 300 fathoms, to protect the core with a thin layer of brass tape.
In many cases a still heavier type is used for the first mile or two from shore, and several intermediate types are often introduced, tapering gradually to the thin deep-water type.
Suppose the arm c of the switch S to be in contact with 2; thin when the key is manipulated it sends alternately positive and negative currents into the line.
The magnet between the poles of which the rectangular signal coil moves is built up of a number of thin flat horseshoe-shaped permanent magnets of a special quality of steel, and is provided with adjustable pole pieces.
Opposed to the thalloid forms are the group of leafy Liverworts (Acrogynae), whose plant-body consists of a thin supporting stem bearing leaves.
The end wall is usually very thin, and the protoplasm on artificial contraction commonly sticks to it just as in a sieve-tube, though no perforation of the wall has been found.
The latter has a central strand consisting of files of large hydroids, separated from one another by very thin walls, each file being separated from its neighbor by stout, dark-brown walls.
During the process the thin walls are stretched and the turns of the spiral become pulled apart without rupturing the wall of the tracheid or vessel, If the pitted type of tracheal element were similarly stretched its continuously thickened walls would resist the stretching and eventually break.
In the blade of a typical leaf of a vascular plantessentially a thin plate of assimilating tissuethe vascular system takes the form of a number of separate, usually branching and anastomosing strands.
The wall of the tube is very thin and delicate, and does not seem to be composed of cellulose or any modification of it.
In the red variety of Cucurbita pepo these crystals may consist of rods, thin plates, flat ribbons or spirals.
The separate layers of the starch-grain are deposited on it by the activity of the chrmatophore, and according to Meyer the grain is always surrounded by a thin layer of the chromatophore which completely separates it from the cytoplasm.
Organs which respond to the mechanical stimulus of contact are found to possess special contrivances in certain of their cells(I) sensitive spots, consisting of places here and there on the epidermal cells where the wall is thin and in close contact with protoplasmic projections.
The sieve tubes contain a thin lining layer of protoplasm on their walls, but no nuclei, and the cell sap contains albuminous substances which are coagulable by heat.
The maxillaries are connected with the distal anterior corner of the quadrate by the thin, splint-like jugal and quadratojugal.
The forebrain forms the bulk of the whole brain, but the large size of the hemispheres is due to the greater development of the basal and lateral portions (pedunculi cerebri and corpora striata), while the pallium (the portion external to the lateral ventricles) is thin, and restricted to the median side of each hemisphere.
The atria are comparatively small, the walls being thin, especially those of the right, which possesses numerous muscular ridges projecting into the cavity presenting a honeycombed appearance.
The lower portion of the trachea consists of thin membranes, about half a dozen of the rings being very thin or deficient.
Almost beardless, and with thin eyebrows, they had on their heads thick, black, lustrous hair, which neither fell off nor turned grey until extreme old age.
One end of a short piece of thin line is passed through one of these holes, and knotted; the other end has spliced to it a hard bone peg which is inserted in the other hole.
It sublimes in thin plates of a dark colour and metallic lustre, and is soluble in solutions of the caustic alkalis.
Russia they form the floor upon which lies a thin covering of Tertiary beds, and they are exposed to view in the valleys of the Dnieper and the Bug.
In time it became a common practice to cover them with a thin sheathing or plating of iron, in order to add to their life; this expedient caused more wear on the wooden rollers of the wagons, and, apparently towards the middle of the 18th century, led to the introduction of iron wheels, the use of which is recorded on a wooden railway near Bath in 1734.
In 1893 the construction was completed in Budapest of an underground railway with a thin, flat roof, consisting of steel beams set close together, with small longitudinal jack arches between them, the street pavement .
The extreme frosts and heats of the English climate are unknown, but occasional heavy snow-falls occur, and the sea in shallow inlets is covered with a thin coating of ice.
Pavilliard's description of the " thin little figure, with a large head, disputing and arguing, with the greatest ability, all the best arguments that had ever been used in favour of popery."
Vitale, is made of thin slabs of alabaster, behind which lamps were intended to be placed.
The rains are quickly absorbed by the light porous soil and leave only temporary effects on the surface, where arboreal growth is stunted and grasses are commonly thin and harsh.
Another well-known bed, formerly known as the "Bristol" or "Lias" Bone Bed, exists in the form of several thin layers of micaceous sandstone, with the remains of fish and saurians, which occur in the Rhaetic Black Paper Shales that lie above the Keuper marls in the south-west of England.
Light portable boats are sometimes made of very thin boards of fir, sewn together with cord thus manufactured from the roots of the tree.
Shell thin, more or less covered by the mantle; no operculum.
Visceral mass still coiled spirally; shell thin and shining.
Anterior tentacles much reduced; male and female apertures contiguous but distinct; shell thin,.
An air-tube consists of an epithelium of large polygonal cells with a thin basement-membrane externally and y a chitinous layer internally, the lastnamed being continuous with the outer cuticle.
The "crested" or "cock's comb" barytes occurs as rounded aggregations of thin lamellar crystals.
The walls are built of solid brickwork and then covered with thin slabs of rich and costly marbles.
They were usually solid, but in some cases they were built a sacco- that is to say, two thin outer walls were built and the space between them was filled with grouted rubble.
The soil is composed of red ferruginous kankar, with a stratum of clay in the more elevated parts, covered by a thin layer of vegetable mould, or by recent alluvial deposits.
Small, thin, deciduous scales equally cover nearly the entire body.
The lid is sometimes thin and wafer-like as in the burrow of the species of Nemesia, sometimes thick and cord-like as in that of the species of Cteniza or Pachylomerus.