英语词汇“thin”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

thin

(θɪn )

Word forms: thinner , thinnest , thins , thinning , thinned

1. adjective A2

Something that is thin is much narrower than it is long.

A thin cable carries the signal to a computer.

James's face was thin, finely boned, and sensitive.

Synonyms: narrow, fine, attenuate, attenuated

2. adjective A2

A person or animal that is thin has no extra fat on their body .

He was a tall, thin man with grey hair.

He is small and very thin and has pale-white skin.

Synonyms: slim, spare, lean, slight

thinness uncountable noun B2

There was something familiar about him, his fawn raincoat, his thinness, the way he moved.

3. adjective A2

Something such as paper or cloth that is thin is flat and has only a very small distance between its two opposite surfaces.

...a small, blue-bound book printed in fine type on thin paper.

A thin layer of topsoil was swept away.

thinly adverb [ADVERB with verb] B2

Peel and thinly slice the onion.

Roll the pasta out as thinly as possible.

4. adjective B2

Liquids that are thin are weak and watery.

The soup was thin and clear, yet mysteriously rich.

They are stirring huge pots of rice and thin vegetable soup over a fire made of charcoal.

Synonyms: watery, weak, diluted, dilute

5. adjective

A crowd or audience that is thin does not have many people in it.

The crowd, which had been thin for the first half of the race, had now grown considerably.

Synonyms: meagre, sparse, scanty, poor

thinly adverb [ADVERB -ed]

The island is thinly populated.

...thinly attended meetings.

6. graded adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]

A thin smile is one that is not friendly or humorous.

All she could manage was a thin, wan smile.

thinly graded adverb [ADVERB after verb]

Wilson smiled thinly. 'We have decided to name the new Home after Councillor Minford.'

7. adjective B1

Thin clothes are made from light cloth and are not warm to wear.

Her gown was thin, and she shivered, partly from cold.

Synonyms: fine, delicate, flimsy, sheer

thinly adverb [ADVERB adjective/-ed] B2

Mrs Brown wrapped the thinly clad man in her coat.

8. adjective

If you describe an argument or explanation as thin, you mean that it is weak and difficult to believe.

However, the evidence is thin and, to some extent, ambiguous.

Even if the optimists' theory is true, it still seems a thin argument against reform.

Synonyms: unconvincing, inadequate, feeble, poor

thinly adverb [usually ADVERB -ed, oft ADV before v]

Much of the speech was a thinly disguised attack on the management of the company.

...a series of what correspondents describe as thinly veiled threats to use force.

9. graded adjective

A voice or sound that is thin is high-pitched and not very loud.

Her thin voice rose high in complaint.

Synonyms: weak, faint, feeble, small

10. adjective A2

If someone's hair is described as thin, they do not have a lot of hair.

She had pale thin yellow hair she pulled back into a bun.

Synonyms: wispy, thinning, sparse, scarce

11. verb

When you thin something or when it thins, it becomes less crowded because people or things have been removed from it.

Reduce the wind resistance by thinning the tree's canopy. [VERB noun]

By midnight the crowd had thinned. [VERB]

Thin out means the same as thin.

NATO will continue to thin out its forces. [VERB PARTICLE noun]

When the crowd began to thin out, I realized that most of the food was still there. [VERB PARTICLE]

Further up the river, the vineyards start to thin out. [VERB PARTICLE]

[Also VERB noun PARTICLE]

12. verb

To thin a sauce or liquid means to make it weaker and more watery by adding another liquid to it.

It may be necessary to thin the sauce slightly. [VERB noun]

Aspirin thins the blood, letting it flow more easily through narrowed blood vessels. [VERB noun]

Synonyms: dilute, water down, weaken, attenuate

Thin down means the same as thin.

Thin down your mayonnaise with soured cream or natural yoghurt. [VERB PARTICLE noun]

...an oil-based paint that was thinned down with white spirit. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)]

13. verb

If someone's hair is thinning, it has begun to fall out.

His hair is thinning and his skin has lost all hint of youth. [VERB]

14. wearing thin phrase

If someone's patience, for example, is wearing thin, they are beginning to become impatient or angry with someone.

Parliament has not tackled the economic crisis, and public patience is wearing thin.

15. on thin ice phrase

If you say that someone is on thin ice or is skating on thin ice, you mean that they are doing something risky which may have serious or unpleasant consequences.

I had skated on thin ice and, so far, got away with it.

16. thin air phrase

If someone or something disappears into thin air, they disappear completely. If someone or something appears out of thin air, they appear suddenly and mysteriously.

'But where could they have gone?' he demanded. 'They can't just vanish into thin air!'.

He had materialized out of thin air; I had not seen or heard him coming.

Phrasal verbs:

thin down thin [sense 12]

thin out thin [sense 11]

Idioms:

be thin on the ground [British]

to be rare

Ideas are thin on the ground in the British film industry.

out of thin air or from thin air

if something appears out of thin air, it appears suddenly and unexpectedly

A crisis had materialized out of thin air.

disappear into thin air or vanish into thin air

to disappear completely

Her husband disappeared into thin air for years.

skate on thin ice

to get into a difficult situation which may have serious or unpleasant consequences

All through my career I had skated on thin ice and somehow had, so far, got away with it.

a thin skin

a tendency to be easily upset by criticism

He has a thin skin and lacks determination – he's certainly not cut out to be a journalist.

do something through thick and thin

to continue doing something even when the situation makes it very difficult for you

I'll love you through thick and thin, no matter what happens.

spread yourself too thin

to try to do a lot of different things at the same time, with the result that you cannot do any of them properly

The company grew too fast and spread itself too thin across too many diverse areas.

thin as a rake

extremely thin

I'd always been as thin as a rake but in London my weight went up to more than 12 stone.

the thin end of the wedge [British]

the beginning of something which seems harmless or unimportant at present but is likely to become important, serious, or harmful in the future

I think it's the thin end of the wedge when you have armed police permanently on patrol round a city.

Collocations:

thin edge

Although some officers saw the book as the thin edge of the wedge, it has changed the way that career intelligence officers view their public role.

Times, Sunday Times

Broad didn't walk after a thin edge to the keeper that was deflected to slip.

Times, Sunday Times

It features large window openings, and a flat roof with parapet or thin edge overhang.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

The first layer of a coating can give a thin edge on the corner of components.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

But often, especially on hot days, it fails to pick up thin edges.

Times, Sunday Times

thin thread

The thin thread of tinsel that usually glinted up from the fields was in places hundreds of yards wide.

Times, Sunday Times

It felt like it was all going to fall apart at any moment, but there was some thin thread of control holding it all together.

Times, Sunday Times

Some thin thread connecting these seemingly random acts of criminal activity?

Times, Sunday Times

But slowly, gradually, rose a thin thread of birdsong.

Times, Sunday Times

Lace has been produced for a long time, made in tedious hand labour with thin thread and needles or bobbins.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

thin tube

He inserted a catheter — a thin tube — into a vein in his arm and pushed it up towards his shoulder, wondering how far it might go.

Times,Sunday Times

He explained he would insert a thin tube into each leg through a small incision.

The Sun

A combination of the mentioned glass vessel with a thin tube coil allows relevant biomass production rates a laboratory research scale.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

The thin tube walls are sensitive to damage from rough handling, point tools and crimping during assembly.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

Patients were having cannulas [thin tubes to administer medication or drain off fluid] inserted in the corridors.

Times, Sunday Times

thin veil

A thin veil of marine life shrouded the pulley wheels, bricks and a copper cauldron from the galley.

Times, Sunday Times

Sundogs are created by sunlight shining through a thin veil of ice crystals in high cirrus clouds.

Times, Sunday Times

The volcanic cloud gradually swept around the northern hemisphere as a thin veil of dust and acid.

Times, Sunday Times

A thin veil of acid and dust from these volcanoes gradually swept around the northern hemisphere in the stratosphere.

Times, Sunday Times

Sunlight shone through a thin veil of wispy cirrus clouds around 6km (4 miles) high.

Times, Sunday Times

thin veneer

At such times, all that held the royal household together was its thin veneer of ceremony and exquisite manners.

Jonathan Gregson BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty (2002)

The moment 's sting is utterly drawn by a thin veneer of violins and some cautiously inoffensive singing.

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

She was playing the tough businesswoman but it was a thin veneer.

Times, Sunday Times (2013)

Under this thin veneer of modesty lies a monster of greed.

Christianity Today (2000)

thin wall

Fishermen went to sea knowing that only a thin wall of pastry separated the first - meat and veg - from the second - jam sponge with fruit.

Times, Sunday Times

The first was an enclosure, about 30x50ft m, surrounded by a thin wall of unbaked bricks.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

High stiffness and low density appears making larger parts with thin wall, and manufacturing large fins for heat dissipation.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

The two families are separated by a thin wall.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

It featured a space frame chassis made of thin wall chrome-moly tubing.

Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0

thin wire

Consisting of a thin wire noose, they are both cruel and indiscriminate traps.

Times, Sunday Times

They are intended either to sit on a flat surface or to be suspended from thin wire, so you could hang them from tree branches, for example.

Times, Sunday Times

In other words, they are suspended on a very thin wire between two prongs of political correctness and are not terribly sure which way to turn.

Times, Sunday Times

If you insist on keeping the thin wire sort, it's a good idea to pad them over with tissue paper so that they don't spoil the shape of your clothes.

Times, Sunday Times

Thin wire or plasticcoated structures are fine for tying in roses, but clematis have difficulties getting their tendrils to grab.

Times, Sunday Times

Translations:

Chinese: 薄的, 瘦的, 使变稀疏

Japanese: 薄い厚み, 細い, まばらにする/まばらになる

单词	thin
释义	thin (θɪn ) Word forms: thinner , thinnest , thins , thinning , thinned 1. adjective A2 Something that is thin is much narrower than it is long. A thin cable carries the signal to a computer. James's face was thin, finely boned, and sensitive. Synonyms: narrow, fine, attenuate, attenuated 2. adjective A2 A person or animal that is thin has no extra fat on their body . He was a tall, thin man with grey hair. He is small and very thin and has pale-white skin. Synonyms: slim, spare, lean, slight thinness uncountable noun B2 There was something familiar about him, his fawn raincoat, his thinness, the way he moved. 3. adjective A2 Something such as paper or cloth that is thin is flat and has only a very small distance between its two opposite surfaces. ...a small, blue-bound book printed in fine type on thin paper. A thin layer of topsoil was swept away. thinly adverb [ADVERB with verb] B2 Peel and thinly slice the onion. Roll the pasta out as thinly as possible. 4. adjective B2 Liquids that are thin are weak and watery. The soup was thin and clear, yet mysteriously rich. They are stirring huge pots of rice and thin vegetable soup over a fire made of charcoal. Synonyms: watery, weak, diluted, dilute 5. adjective A crowd or audience that is thin does not have many people in it. The crowd, which had been thin for the first half of the race, had now grown considerably. Synonyms: meagre, sparse, scanty, poor thinly adverb [ADVERB -ed] The island is thinly populated. ...thinly attended meetings. 6. graded adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] A thin smile is one that is not friendly or humorous. All she could manage was a thin, wan smile. thinly graded adverb [ADVERB after verb] Wilson smiled thinly. 'We have decided to name the new Home after Councillor Minford.' 7. adjective B1 Thin clothes are made from light cloth and are not warm to wear. Her gown was thin, and she shivered, partly from cold. Synonyms: fine, delicate, flimsy, sheer thinly adverb [ADVERB adjective/-ed] B2 Mrs Brown wrapped the thinly clad man in her coat. 8. adjective If you describe an argument or explanation as thin, you mean that it is weak and difficult to believe. However, the evidence is thin and, to some extent, ambiguous. Even if the optimists' theory is true, it still seems a thin argument against reform. Synonyms: unconvincing, inadequate, feeble, poor thinly adverb [usually ADVERB -ed, oft ADV before v] Much of the speech was a thinly disguised attack on the management of the company. ...a series of what correspondents describe as thinly veiled threats to use force. 9. graded adjective A voice or sound that is thin is high-pitched and not very loud. Her thin voice rose high in complaint. Synonyms: weak, faint, feeble, small 10. adjective A2 If someone's hair is described as thin, they do not have a lot of hair. She had pale thin yellow hair she pulled back into a bun. Synonyms: wispy, thinning, sparse, scarce 11. verb When you thin something or when it thins, it becomes less crowded because people or things have been removed from it. Reduce the wind resistance by thinning the tree's canopy. [VERB noun] By midnight the crowd had thinned. [VERB] Thin out means the same as thin. NATO will continue to thin out its forces. [VERB PARTICLE noun] When the crowd began to thin out, I realized that most of the food was still there. [VERB PARTICLE] Further up the river, the vineyards start to thin out. [VERB PARTICLE] [Also VERB noun PARTICLE] 12. verb To thin a sauce or liquid means to make it weaker and more watery by adding another liquid to it. It may be necessary to thin the sauce slightly. [VERB noun] Aspirin thins the blood, letting it flow more easily through narrowed blood vessels. [VERB noun] Synonyms: dilute, water down, weaken, attenuate Thin down means the same as thin. Thin down your mayonnaise with soured cream or natural yoghurt. [VERB PARTICLE noun] ...an oil-based paint that was thinned down with white spirit. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] 13. verb If someone's hair is thinning, it has begun to fall out. His hair is thinning and his skin has lost all hint of youth. [VERB] 14. wearing thin phrase If someone's patience, for example, is wearing thin, they are beginning to become impatient or angry with someone. Parliament has not tackled the economic crisis, and public patience is wearing thin. 15. on thin ice phrase If you say that someone is on thin ice or is skating on thin ice, you mean that they are doing something risky which may have serious or unpleasant consequences. I had skated on thin ice and, so far, got away with it. 16. thin air phrase If someone or something disappears into thin air, they disappear completely. If someone or something appears out of thin air, they appear suddenly and mysteriously. 'But where could they have gone?' he demanded. 'They can't just vanish into thin air!'. He had materialized out of thin air; I had not seen or heard him coming. Phrasal verbs: thin down thin [sense 12] thin out thin [sense 11] Idioms: be thin on the ground [British] to be rare Ideas are thin on the ground in the British film industry. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers out of thin air or from thin air if something appears out of thin air, it appears suddenly and unexpectedly A crisis had materialized out of thin air. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers disappear into thin air or vanish into thin air to disappear completely Her husband disappeared into thin air for years. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers skate on thin ice to get into a difficult situation which may have serious or unpleasant consequences All through my career I had skated on thin ice and somehow had, so far, got away with it. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers a thin skin a tendency to be easily upset by criticism He has a thin skin and lacks determination – he's certainly not cut out to be a journalist. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers do something through thick and thin to continue doing something even when the situation makes it very difficult for you I'll love you through thick and thin, no matter what happens. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers spread yourself too thin to try to do a lot of different things at the same time, with the result that you cannot do any of them properly The company grew too fast and spread itself too thin across too many diverse areas. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers thin as a rake extremely thin I'd always been as thin as a rake but in London my weight went up to more than 12 stone. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers the thin end of the wedge [British] the beginning of something which seems harmless or unimportant at present but is likely to become important, serious, or harmful in the future I think it's the thin end of the wedge when you have armed police permanently on patrol round a city. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: thin edge Although some officers saw the book as the thin edge of the wedge, it has changed the way that career intelligence officers view their public role. Times, Sunday Times Broad didn't walk after a thin edge to the keeper that was deflected to slip. Times, Sunday Times It features large window openings, and a flat roof with parapet or thin edge overhang. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The first layer of a coating can give a thin edge on the corner of components. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But often, especially on hot days, it fails to pick up thin edges. Times, Sunday Times thin thread The thin thread of tinsel that usually glinted up from the fields was in places hundreds of yards wide. Times, Sunday Times It felt like it was all going to fall apart at any moment, but there was some thin thread of control holding it all together. Times, Sunday Times Some thin thread connecting these seemingly random acts of criminal activity? Times, Sunday Times But slowly, gradually, rose a thin thread of birdsong. Times, Sunday Times Lace has been produced for a long time, made in tedious hand labour with thin thread and needles or bobbins. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 thin tube He inserted a catheter — a thin tube — into a vein in his arm and pushed it up towards his shoulder, wondering how far it might go. Times,Sunday Times He explained he would insert a thin tube into each leg through a small incision. The Sun A combination of the mentioned glass vessel with a thin tube coil allows relevant biomass production rates a laboratory research scale. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The thin tube walls are sensitive to damage from rough handling, point tools and crimping during assembly. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Patients were having cannulas [thin tubes to administer medication or drain off fluid] inserted in the corridors. Times, Sunday Times thin veil A thin veil of marine life shrouded the pulley wheels, bricks and a copper cauldron from the galley. Times, Sunday Times Sundogs are created by sunlight shining through a thin veil of ice crystals in high cirrus clouds. Times, Sunday Times The volcanic cloud gradually swept around the northern hemisphere as a thin veil of dust and acid. Times, Sunday Times A thin veil of acid and dust from these volcanoes gradually swept around the northern hemisphere in the stratosphere. Times, Sunday Times Sunlight shone through a thin veil of wispy cirrus clouds around 6km (4 miles) high. Times, Sunday Times thin veneer At such times, all that held the royal household together was its thin veneer of ceremony and exquisite manners. Jonathan Gregson BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty (2002) The moment 's sting is utterly drawn by a thin veneer of violins and some cautiously inoffensive singing. Times, Sunday Times (2011) She was playing the tough businesswoman but it was a thin veneer. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Under this thin veneer of modesty lies a monster of greed. Christianity Today (2000) thin wall Fishermen went to sea knowing that only a thin wall of pastry separated the first - meat and veg - from the second - jam sponge with fruit. Times, Sunday Times The first was an enclosure, about 30x50ft m, surrounded by a thin wall of unbaked bricks. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 High stiffness and low density appears making larger parts with thin wall, and manufacturing large fins for heat dissipation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The two families are separated by a thin wall. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It featured a space frame chassis made of thin wall chrome-moly tubing. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 thin wire Consisting of a thin wire noose, they are both cruel and indiscriminate traps. Times, Sunday Times They are intended either to sit on a flat surface or to be suspended from thin wire, so you could hang them from tree branches, for example. Times, Sunday Times In other words, they are suspended on a very thin wire between two prongs of political correctness and are not terribly sure which way to turn. Times, Sunday Times If you insist on keeping the thin wire sort, it's a good idea to pad them over with tissue paper so that they don't spoil the shape of your clothes. Times, Sunday Times Thin wire or plasticcoated structures are fine for tying in roses, but clematis have difficulties getting their tendrils to grab. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 薄的, 瘦的, 使变稀疏 Japanese: 薄い厚み, 細い, まばらにする/まばらになる
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