Definition of Thin

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Definition of Thin

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.

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

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.

Not full or well grown; wanting in plumpness.

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

Wanting in body or volume; small; feeble; not full.

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

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

To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective).

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.

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Thin Quotations

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Erma Bombeck

I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
Erma Bombeck

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
Jonathan Swift

I found there was only one way to look thin, hang out with fat people.
Rodney Dangerfield

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
George Orwell

I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.
Aaliyah

Boredom is rage spread thin.
Paul Tillich

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
Alexander Pope

Depression is rage spread thin.
George Santayana

Thin Translations

thin in Afrikaans is maer, skraal, dun
thin in Danish is tynd, mager
thin in Dutch is sprietig, schraal, mager
thin in Italian is magro
thin in Latin is macresco, exilis, infrequens, tenuis, levidensis
thin in Norwegian is tynn
thin in Portuguese is fino, delgado
thin in Spanish is escurrido
thin in Swedish is gles, tunn, gallra, mager

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