单词 | thin |
释义 | thin I. 1. a. < thin paper > < thin layer of paint > < thin slice of meat > < thin coin > b. < thin rope > < thin rod > 2. < thin stand of trees > < a thin rain was falling > < his hair was thin and lank > 3. < thin lips > < long thin figure > 4. a. < thin syrup > < thin batter > < thin air of the high mountains > b. < thin congregation > < thin attendance at a meeting > c. d. < thin assortment of goods on the counter > < thin ranks of volunteers > e. of a market 5. a. < thin broth > < thin wine > < thin diet > b. of soil 6. a. < novel with a thin plot > b. < thin excuse > c. < have a thin time of it > 7. a. of a voice < nearly soundless laughter thin as a bat's cry — Elinor Wylie > b. of harmony c. of reproduced sound (1) (2) d. of a speech sound 8. a. of light < thin winter sunshine > b. of a color 9. a. < thin pretext > < thin disguise > b. < his patience was wearing thin > 10. of a photographic negative or print < overexposure produces thin images — E.F.Brewer > Synonyms: < a thin board > < a thin layer of frosting > or a comparatively small diameter of a cylindrical or roughly cylindrical object in proportion to its length < a thin pole > < a thin wire > and it implies also a comparative lack of flesh or substance giving a thing fullness, richness, or density < a thin face > < a thin soup > < thin hair > < a play that is pretty thin in plot > slender chiefly implies leanness or spareness without suggesting gauntness or lankiness, usually connoting gracefulness and good proportions < slender hands > < a slender figure > and is similar to thin though implying, not strongly, a meagerness or scantiness < slender success in an enterprise > < slender advice > < a slender chance of success > slim is much like slender when applied to persons or animals, though suggesting more fragility, gauntness, or lack of flesh than grace or good proportion < very slim children > and it is like slender in extended meaning, though stressing meagerness and scantiness more strongly < a slim chance of recovery > < a slim pay envelope > slight stresses smallness rather than thinness, seldom suggesting height or length as do slender and, sometimes, slim < a slight woman of very small frame > and in application to things, it is often derogatory, applying to what is inappreciable or inadequate < a slight difference in age between two men > < a very slight imaginative quality in a book > < a slight compensation for great effort > tenuous implies extreme thinness < a tenuous thread > < the tenuous filament of a spider's web > or sheerness < a tenuous and almost fully transparent fabric > and its most common extended use implies an extreme lack of density, solidity, or substance < tenuous mists along the road > < a mind given to tenuous ideas > < a tenuous grasp of a difficult subject > rare is applied chiefly to air or gases and implies tenuousness or lack of density < the extremely rare atmosphere of the stratosphere > • - into thin air - on thin ice - out of thin air II. < thin-clad > < thin-flowing > III. < sandpipers running in the thin of the tide — F.M.Ford > < letters embodying sharply contrasted thicks and thins — Stanley Morison > IV. transitive verb a. b. < thin glue with alcohol > c. < thin wine with water > < the ballad, with its old religious, military, or tragic contents, was thinned out into the sentimental popular song — Lewis Mumford > d. < thinned by weeks of privation > e. f. g. intransitive verb 1. < his hair is thinning > — used often with down or out or off < the limestone layer thinned out and soon came to an end > < toward the city limits the houses began to thin out > < the stream had thinned down to a mere trickle > 2. < this desire thins out — M.L.Anshen > Synonyms: < thinning paint > < thinning the trees in a woodlot > < the crowd thinned a little > < the thinning ranks of true cowboys — American Guide Series: Texas > < the lines of magnetic and electric force thinned out geometrically with the square of the distance from their origin — S.F.Mason > attenuate may indicate thinning by mechanical or chemical means or thinning accompanied by enervation, enfeeblement, or other weakening < attenuate wire by drawing it out > < the powerful frame attenuated by spare living — Charles Dickens > < the apparent brightness of the stars as we see them, with their light attenuated by distance and the cosmic haze — G.W.Gray b. 1886 > < illusions which science can attenuate or destroy — J.W.Krutch > extenuate may sometimes mean to emaciate; it usually suggests a diminution of significance and effect < the whole tendency of modern thought and modern opinion and modern manners is to extenuate the responsibility of human nature — Compton Mackenzie > dilute indicates a weakening of concentration by addition of a weakening, neutralizing, or counteracting agency < dilute the paint with turpentine > < acid diluted with water > < explosives in nuclear weapons, when diluted, provide the fuel required for most peaceful atom products — New Republic > < the strength of passionate emotion is diluted to the languor of interminable sentimentality — R.A.Hall b. 1911 > < the pioneer spirit has been diluted by new race mixtures, it confidence shaken by new social trends — American Guide Series: Minnesota > rarefy indicates a thinning in density, sometimes, with reference to matters intellectual or emotional, by refining and eliminating all dross or by imparting a tenuous or even nebulous quality < rarefied mountain air > < these claims are argued in the rarefied atmosphere of academic discussion — M.S.Handler > < a civilization so rarefied that it is almost decadent — Santha Rama Rau > |
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