| 单词 | thin on top |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthin on top a. Consisting of or characterized by individual constituents or parts placed at relatively large intervals; not thick, dense, or bushy. Opposed to thick adj. 4. Also thin on top: of a man, having little hair on the (top of the) scalp, balding. Also, of the hair itself. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > lack of density > [adjective] thin849 subtilea1393 airya1398 subtlea1398 rarea1400 shirec1400 finea1425 solutec1440 intenuate1471 slender1528 ethereal1590 tenuous1597 spare1602 unsolid1611 unsolute1612 tenuious1634 etherical1656 airlike1821 wire-drawn1876 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [adjective] > scattered at wide intervals > characterized by wide intervals thin849 rare?1440 sparse1801 the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > [adjective] > having no calloweOE baldc1386 as bald (bare, black) as a coot1430 forehead-bald1530 pilled-pated1542 bald-pate1578 bald-headed1580 bald-pated1606 bald-head1820 baldish1833 tonsured1855 pollard1856 thin on top1869 slap-headed1994 849 in Birch Cart. Sax. II. 40 In..sceagan ðær he ðynnest is. c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 466 Oft of ðinnum renscurum flewð seo eorðe. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 48/44 Bote þornes and þunne boskes. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxvi. 126 Þe Tartarenes hase..lytill berdes and thynne. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 491/1 Thynne, as gresse, corne, wodys,..rarus. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie T 140 Thinne,..not thicke growen or set,..rarus. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 45 [Lord Mountjoy's] haire was..thinne on his head. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 77 Indian population is thin; vast tracts..are uninhabited. 1869 A. Trollope He knew he was Right I. xxxi. 243 ‘You are not bald at all.’..‘I am beginning to be thin enough at the top.’ 1894 A. Conan Doyle Mem. Sherlock Holmes 49 A thin rain began to fall. 1921 G. B. Shaw Back to Methuselah v. 217 Getting a little hard set and flat-chested and thin on the top, wasn't she? 1933 W. S. Maugham Sheppey i. 2 'Air's very dry, sir..getting a bit thin on top. 1950 J. Cannan Murder Included vi. 124 There 'e goes—thin on top, ain't 'e? 1978 L. Meynell Papersnake vi. 77 At forty-one his hair was definitely receding and getting thin on top. < as lemmas |
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