thin

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.
  2. Any food produced or served in thin slices.
    — chocolate mint thins
动词 v.
  1. To make thin or thinner. transitive
    — Exhausted fathers thinned the blood, You curse the legacy of pain; Darling of an infected brood, You feel disaster climb the vein.
  2. To become thin or thinner. intransitive
    — The crowds thinned after the procession had passed: there was nothing more to see.
  3. To dilute.
  4. To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
    — So floriferous are Asian pears, and the tree so laden with young fruit, that as the tree approaches maturity it is worth considering thinning the fruit (I can't quite bring myself to thin the flowers) so as to neither overburden the tree for this year nor tire it for the next. Thinning early in the season, while the fruit is small, is ideal.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
    — thin plate of metal; thin paper; thin board; thin covering
  2. Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
    — thin wire; thin string
  3. Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
    — thin person
  4. Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.
    — Water is thinner than honey.
  5. Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
    — The trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin.
  6. Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
  7. Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
    — a thin, tight-lipped smile
  8. Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
    — a thin disguise
  9. Of a route: relatively little used.
    — In short, we previously found that thin routes benefit from an increase in competition in the Spanish airline market when considering routes that were monopoly routes in 2001.
  10. Poor; scanty; without money or success.
    — Like their friends the "draggers," the "hoisters" or shoplifters are having a thin time these days, […]
副词 adv.
  1. Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.
    — seed sown thin

词形变化

thinner comparative thinnest superlative thins plural thins present,singular,third-person thinning participle,present thinned participle,past thinned past more thin comparative most thin superlative

词汇关系

近义词
skinny slender slim svelte waifish scrawny watery sparse
反义词
thick
衍生词
gossamer-thin have a thin time of it into thin air microthin nanothin nonthin on thin ice out of thin air overthin paper-thin pencil-thin prethin quasithin rail-thin razor thin razor-thin run thin semithin skate on thin ice spread oneself thin spread oneself too thin stick-thin stretch thin superthin thick and thin thick-and-thin block thin air thin as a barber's cat thin as a rail thin as a rake thin as a wafer thin as a yard of pump water thin-bladed thin blue line thinclad thin client thincoat thin computing thin content thin-crust pizza thin edge of the wedge thin end of the wedge thin film thin-film thin-layer chromatography thin layer chromatography thinly thinnet thinnish thinny thin on the ground thin paper thin sandwich course thin sandwich degree thin section thin shaming thin skin thin-skinned thin-skinnedness thin skull rule thin-slice thin slice thin-slicing thin space thinspiration thinsplain thinspo thin the herd thin trading thinwire through thick and thin ultrathin wafer-thin wear thin thin down thinnable thinner thin out thin up unthinned
相关词
thinness

词源

词源 1
From Middle English thinne, thünne, thenne, from Old English þynne, from Proto-West Germanic *þunnī, from Proto-Germanic *þunnuz (“thin”) – compare *þanjaną (“to stretch, spread out”) – from Proto-Indo-European *ténh₂us (“thin”), from *ten- (“to stretch”).
Cognate with German dünn, Dutch dun, West Frisian tin, Icelandic þunnur, Danish tynd, Swedish tunn, Latin tenuis, Irish tanaí, Welsh tenau, Latvian tievs, Polish cienki, Russian тонкий (tonkij), Sanskrit तनु (tanú, “thin”), Persian تنگ (tang, “narrow”). Doublet of tenuis. Also related to tenuous.
词源 2
From Middle English thinne, thünne, thenne, from Old English þynne, from Proto-West Germanic *þunnī, from Proto-Germanic *þunnuz (“thin”) – compare *þanjaną (“to stretch, spread out”) – from Proto-Indo-European *ténh₂us (“thin”), from *ten- (“to stretch”).
Cognate with German dünn, Dutch dun, West Frisian tin, Icelandic þunnur, Danish tynd, Swedish tunn, Latin tenuis, Irish tanaí, Welsh tenau, Latvian tievs, Polish cienki, Russian тонкий (tonkij), Sanskrit तनु (tanú, “thin”), Persian تنگ (tang, “narrow”). Doublet of tenuis. Also related to tenuous.
词源 3
From Middle English thinne, thünne, thenne, from Old English þynne, from Proto-West Germanic *þunnī, from Proto-Germanic *þunnuz (“thin”) – compare *þanjaną (“to stretch, spread out”) – from Proto-Indo-European *ténh₂us (“thin”), from *ten- (“to stretch”).
Cognate with German dünn, Dutch dun, West Frisian tin, Icelandic þunnur, Danish tynd, Swedish tunn, Latin tenuis, Irish tanaí, Welsh tenau, Latvian tievs, Polish cienki, Russian тонкий (tonkij), Sanskrit तनु (tanú, “thin”), Persian تنگ (tang, “narrow”). Doublet of tenuis. Also related to tenuous.
词源 4
From Middle English thinne, thünne, thenne, from Old English þynne, from Proto-West Germanic *þunnī, from Proto-Germanic *þunnuz (“thin”) – compare *þanjaną (“to stretch, spread out”) – from Proto-Indo-European *ténh₂us (“thin”), from *ten- (“to stretch”).
Cognate with German dünn, Dutch dun, West Frisian tin, Icelandic þunnur, Danish tynd, Swedish tunn, Latin tenuis, Irish tanaí, Welsh tenau, Latvian tievs, Polish cienki, Russian тонкий (tonkij), Sanskrit तनु (tanú, “thin”), Persian تنگ (tang, “narrow”). Doublet of tenuis. Also related to tenuous.
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