Thin — Defs

01 a. 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.

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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.
2.
Rare; not dense or thick; -- applied to fluids or soft mixtures; as, thin blood; thin broth; thin air.
“In the day, when the air is more thin.” — Bacon.

“Satan, bowing low His gray dissimulation, disappeared, Into thin air diffused.” — Milton.
3.
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.
“Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people.” — Addison.
4.
Not full or well grown; wanting in plumpness.
“Seven thin ears . . . blasted with the east wind.” — Gen. xli. 6.
5.
Not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt; as, a person becomes thin by disease.
6.
Wanting in body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
“Thin, hollow sounds, and lamentable screams.” — Dryden.
7.
Slight; small; slender; flimsy; wanting substance or depth or force; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering; as, a thin disguise.
“My tale is done, for my wit is but thin.” — Chaucer.

Phrases & compounds

Thin section — See under Section.

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

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Not thickly or closely; in a seattered state; as, seed sown thin.
“Spain is thin sown of people.” — Bacon.

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

imp. & p. p. Thinned; p. pr. & vb. n. Thinning

04 v. i. To grow or become thin; -- used with some adverbs, as out, away, etc.; as, geological strata thin out, i. e., gradually diminish in thickne…

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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.