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English to English adjective
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of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section |  | Example: thin wire
a thin chiffon blouse
a thin book
a thin layer of paint
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lacking excess flesh | | Example: you can't be too rich or too thin
Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look
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relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous | | Example: air is thin at high altitudes
a thin soup
skimmed milk is much thinner than whole milk
thin oil
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(of sound) lacking resonance or volume | | Example: a thin feeble cry
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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. | | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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very narrow | | Example: a thin line across the page
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not dense | | Example: a thin beard
trees were sparse
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lacking spirit or sincere effort | | Example: a thin smile
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lacking substance or significance | | Example: slight evidence
a tenuous argument
a thin plot
a fragile claim to fame
source: wordnet30 adverb
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without viscosity | | Example: the blood was flowing thin
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Not thickly or closely; in a seattered state; as, seed sown thin. | | source: webster1913 verb
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lose thickness; become thin or thinner | | source: wordnet30
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make thin or thinner | | Example: Thin the solution
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lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture | | Example: cut bourbon
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take off weight | | source: wordnet30
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To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective). | | source: webster1913
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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. | | source: webster1913
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