thinadj.n.adv.
/θɪn/, U.S. /θɪn/ A. adj.
I. That has opposite sides relatively close, and related uses.
1.
a. Having relatively little extension between opposite surfaces; of little thickness or depth. Opposed to thick adj. 1.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > thickness > thinness > [adjective]
thina900
spare1848
a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) v. vi. 400 Stan..mid ðinre tyrf bewrigen.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 288 Ðeos wyrt..hafað þynne leaf.
c1020 Rule St. Benet (Logeman) lv. 91 Culam on wintre þicce on sumere þinne.
a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 39 Betere is were þunne boute laste þen syde robes ant synke into synne.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 405 Brook cakes, round and þynne.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1673 Wit pike þou lok it be noght thyn [Fairf. þinne, Gött. thine, Trin. Cambr. þynne].
a1513 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen in Poems (1998) I. 41 With curches..of kirsp cleir and thin.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 280/2 Thyn skynne, tenue peau.
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 227 We doe not make our plate so thinne as to break it.
1723 J. Clarke tr. Rohault's Syst. Nat. Philos. I. i. xxvii. 215 A Glass that is thinner in the Middle than at the Edges.
1802 J. Playfair Illustr. Huttonian Theory 294 The thinnest part of that rock..is still covered by the strata.
1887 B. V. Head Historia Numorum 697 The coins of the Sassanian monarchs are thin, flat, and neatly executed.
b. Of small cross section in proportion to length; slender, tenuous, attenuated. (Usually said of a thing more or less cylindrical, as a wire, rod, branch, stem, stock, trunk, limb.)
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the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > slenderness > [adjective]
subtlea1382
subtilea1393
subtilec1392
smiltc1400
fine?a1425
thina1425
exile?1440
slender1444
tenuious1495
jimp?a1513
lenye1513
fine-spuna1555
nice1567
spindled1584
gracile1590
snever1640
tenuous1656
slim1657
gracilious1688
gracilent1727
twittery1819
flitterya1834
attenuate1848
spiry1849
low-profile1906
matchlike1906
slimline1949
a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 59 If it be bi reson of þe membre, þat is for þe membre is to ouer þinne.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Liiv/2 Thinne, gracilis..tenuis.
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 303 Their Harquebuz is longer than ours, but thinner.
1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) IV. 118 Branches..of equal thickness, nay rather thinner at their origin.
1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 426 In the cortex of the thin stem.
1885 H. W. Watson & S. H. Burbury Math. Theory Electr. & Magn. I. 95 The connection between them being a very thin wire.
c. spec. Having little flesh; lean, spare, not fat or plump. Also of ears of corn.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin
leanc1000
thinc1000
swonga1300
meagrea1398
empty?c1400
(as) thin (also lean, rank) as a rakec1405
macilent?a1425
rawc1425
gauntc1440
to be skin and bone (also bones)c1450
leany?a1475
swampc1480
scarrya1500
pinched1514
extenuate1528
lean-fleshed1535
carrion-lean1542
spare1548
lank1553
carrion1565
brawn-fallen1578
raw-bone1590
scraggeda1591
thin-bellied1591
rake-lean1593
bare-boned1594
forlorn1594
Lented1594
lean-looked1597
shotten herring1598
spiny1598
starved1598
thin-belly1598
raw-boned1600
larbar1603
meagry?1603
fleshless1605
scraggy1611
ballow1612
lank-leana1616
skinnya1616
hagged1616
scraggling1616
carrion-like1620
extenuated1620
thin-gutted1620
haggard1630
scrannel1638
leanisha1645
skeletontal1651
overlean1657
emaciated1665
slank1668
lathy1672
emaciate1676
nithered1691
emacerated1704
lean-looking1713
scranky1735
squinny-gut(s)1742
mauger1756
squinny1784
angular1789
etiolated1791
as thin (also lean) as a rail1795
wiry1808
slink1817
scranny1820
famine-hollowed1822
sharp featured1824
reedy1830
scrawny1833
stringy1833
lean-ribbeda1845
skeletony1852
famine-pinched1856
shelly1866
flesh-fallen1876
thinnish1884
all horn and hide1890
unfurnished1893
bone-thin1899
underweight1899
asthenic1925
skin-and-bony1935
skinny-malinky1940
skeletal1952
pencil-neck1960
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 206 Ne mæg him se lichoma batian ac he bið blac & þynne & acolod.
c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 415/27 Galbus, þynne monn.
a1327 Maximon iv, in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 120 Care and kunde of elde Maketh mi body felde..Ant mi body thunne Such is worldes wunne.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xli. 6 Seuene eerys..thinne and smytun with meldew, weren growun.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. xli. C Seuen kyne..thynne, euell fauoured, and leenfleshed [Seuē in text].
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 46 His face grew thinne, his ruddy colour failed.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 16 My Flocks..yet look so thin, Their bones are barely cover'd with their Skin.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho IV. xi. 216 You look so pale now, and so thin, too.
1809 S. T. Coleridge Three Graves iv, in Friend 21 Sept. 94 Oft she said, ‘I'm not grown thin!’ And then her wrist she spann'd.
1865 M. E. Braddon Sir Jasper iv. 37 To have long thin white hands, all aglitter with diamond rings.
d. Penetrable by light or vision, like a thin veil; figurative easily ‘seen through’, transparent, flimsy, as a pretext or excuse. (Cf. some uses in A. 4a.)
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > disbelief, incredulity > [adjective] > unbelievable > lacking substance
thin1623
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. iii. 159 I come not To heare such flattery now, and in my presence They [commendations] are too thin . View more context for this quotation
1662 H. Hibbert Syntagma Theologicum 252 A lie is of a thin and transparent nature.
1851 G. Brimley Ess. (1858) ii. 105 Under a thin disguise of name.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xiv. 94 Over the glacier hung a thin veil of fog.
a1904 A. Adams Log of Cowboy xviii He put up a thin excuse just like the rest. Any one could see through it.
e. the thin end of the wedge: see wedge n. 2b.
II. Not dense or abundant.
2. † b. Of the members of a collective group or class: Not numerous or abundant; scarce, rare, few, scanty. Opposed to thick adj. 5. Obsolete.† c. Of a place: Sparsely occupied or peopled; with of, sparsely furnished or supplied with; thinly occupied or attended by. Obsolete.
a. Consisting of or characterized by individual constituents or parts placed at relatively large intervals; not thick, dense, or bushy. Opposed to thick adj. 4. Also thin on top: of a man, having little hair on the (top of the) scalp, balding. Also, of the hair itself.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > lack of density > [adjective]
thin849
subtilea1393
airya1398
subtlea1398
rarea1400
shirec1400
finea1425
solutec1440
intenuate1471
slender1528
ethereal1590
tenuous1597
spare1602
unsolid1611
unsolute1612
tenuious1634
etherical1656
airlike1821
wire-drawn1876
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [adjective] > scattered at wide intervals > characterized by wide intervals
thin849
rare?1440
sparse1801
the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > [adjective] > having no
calloweOE
baldc1386
as bald (bare, black) as a coot1430
forehead-bald1530
pilled-pated1542
bald-pate1578
bald-headed1580
bald-pated1606
bald-head1820
baldish1833
tonsured1855
pollard1856
thin on top1869
slap-headed1994
849 in Birch Cart. Sax. II. 40 In..sceagan ðær he ðynnest is.
c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 466 Oft of ðinnum renscurum flewð seo eorðe.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 48/44 Bote þornes and þunne boskes.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxvi. 126 Þe Tartarenes hase..lytill berdes and thynne.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 491/1 Thynne, as gresse, corne, wodys,..rarus.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie T 140 Thinne,..not thicke growen or set,..rarus.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 45 [Lord Mountjoy's] haire was..thinne on his head.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 77 Indian population is thin; vast tracts..are uninhabited.
1869 A. Trollope He knew he was Right I. xxxi. 243 ‘You are not bald at all.’..‘I am beginning to be thin enough at the top.’
1894 A. Conan Doyle Mem. Sherlock Holmes 49 A thin rain began to fall.
1921 G. B. Shaw Back to Methuselah v. 217 Getting a little hard set and flat-chested and thin on the top, wasn't she?
1933 W. S. Maugham Sheppey i. 2 'Air's very dry, sir..getting a bit thin on top.
1950 J. Cannan Murder Included vi. 124 There 'e goes—thin on top, ain't 'e?
1978 L. Meynell Papersnake vi. 77 At forty-one his hair was definitely receding and getting thin on top.
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the world > relative properties > number > plurality > fewness > [adjective] > containing few members
littleOE
few?a1425
small?a1439
thin1508
short1681
the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [adjective] > limited in quantity or amount > not abundant
scanta1400
thin1508
rare1584
thin-sown1590
scanty1674
infrequenta1682
bare-boned1828
sparse1871
1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 211 Corspatrik..Thy forefader, maid Irisch and Irisch men thin.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie T 140 Thinne:..selde and not often, rarus.. To waxe thinne, to waxe a small number.
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 188 Artificers also grew thinner and thinner, till none at length were left.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ ii. xv. 30 Gentry amongst them is very thin,..and coming to dwell in Towns they soon mingle with the Marchant, and so degenerat.
1725 T. Thomas in Portland Papers VI. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) 109 Churches are very thin in this part of the World.
1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting ix. 405 Game of all sorts is as thin as deal boards.]
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [adjective] > scattered at wide intervals > in very small numbers > thinly attended or populated
thin-sown1590
rare1601
thin1621
sparse1851
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy Democritus to Rdr. 53 Many kingdomes are fertile, but thin of inhabitants.
1673 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 65 How thinn of Soldrs are ye Few Garrisons we keepe.
1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 51 You must be content with such as your thin Neighbourhood affords.
1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 24 Aug. (1948) I. 341 The town being thin, I am less pestered with company.
1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xi. 57 Both these Rows were Thin of Plants.
1797 Encycl. Brit. VII. 528/1 Galicia..is but thin of people.
1799 H. Lee Canterbury Tales III. 86 Summer was now fast approaching, and the town was thin.
d. Of an assembly or body of people: Scantily furnished with members; thinly attended; not full.
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1660 S. Pepys Diary 2 Oct. (1970) I. 257 Where I find but a thin congregacion allready.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. v. 515 What had been..in a full House, rejected, was many times, in a thin House..resumed, and determined contrary to the former Conclusions.
1703 London Gaz. No. 3904/1 Their Battalions are thin and sickly.
1713 S. Sewall Diary 27 Oct. (1973) II. 731 Buried with a very thin Funeral.
1746 P. Francis tr. Horace Art of Poetry 297 The little Theatre..To which a thin and pious Audience came.
1860–70 W. Stubbs Lect. European Hist. (1904) i. ix. 119 In a very thin meeting, Ferdinand stated his view.
e. thin on the ground: (chiefly of persons) few in number, widely scattered; scarce, and therefore difficult to find. Also of a group, having few members. Cf. thick adj. 5a.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [phrase] > not abundant
money (etc.) does not grow on trees1669
in short supply1804
thin on the ground1951
the world > relative properties > number > plurality > fewness > [adjective] > rare
scarce1398
dainty?a1500
rare1555
scant1581
few and far between1668
few and far between1668
spare1813
thin on the ground1951
1951 W. S. Churchill Second World War IV. i. vi. 86 There was very heavy fighting and many craft were sunk, but the Australians were thin on the ground and enemy parties got ashore at many points.
a1957 A. Brooke in A. Bryant Turn of Tide 1939–43 (1957) ii. 115 I got up early..and started with the 3rd Division, which I found well established but infernally thin on the ground.
1964 ‘A. Gilbert’ Knock, knock, who's There? i. 14 The customers were still pretty thin on the ground.
1976 A. Hill Summer's End ii. 22 Work was a bit thin on the ground everywhere, wi' long dole queues.
1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 July 850/1 Even now, when the Anglo-Irish are precariously thin on the ground, people among them who don't like horses can be miserable in certain counties.
f. Mountaineering. Of or pertaining to a rock face on which good climbing holds are hard to find.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > mountaineering or climbing > [adjective] > types of terrain
holdless1922
wind-slab1936
very severe1951
thin1955
chossy1965
1955 S. Styles Introd. Mountaineering 144 Thin, generally used of steep rock, meaning ‘smooth; having few or very small holds’.
1963 A. Greenbank Instr. Rock Climbing vi. 73 When a guidebook says ‘strenuous’, it usually means steep, fierce-looking rock; ‘delicate’ or ‘thin’, the footholds and/or handholds are tiny.
1970 R. James Rock Climbing in Wales 161 Climb this buttress up the L. side, centre and R. side respectively, each giving a thin lower pitch followed by a short artificial section.
1981 Fell & Rock Jrnl. 23 ii. 199 To its left Wafer Thin gives some very thin climbing up flaky pockets to a final smooth slab.
g. thin red line: see red line n. 2. Similarly thin blue line: a line of policemen, esp. one which holds back a surging crowd; also transferred, the defensive barrier of the law.
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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > line of
thin blue line1962
1962 Sunday Times 16 Dec. 17/2 (caption) The ‘thin blue line’ at an anti-nuclear demonstration.
1970 G. Jackson Let. 17 Apr. in Soledad Brother (1971) 222 You've heard the patronizing shit about the thin blue line that protects property and the owners of property.
1979 ‘M. Underwood’ Smooth Justice ii. 45 The sort of protection we can give..isn't even a thin blue line.
3.
a. Of a liquid or a pasty substance: Of slight density or consistence; fluid; of air or vapour: not dense; rare, tenuous, subtile. Opposed to thick adj. 6.
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the world > matter > liquid > [adjective] > qualities of liquid > not viscous, thin
thina900
subtlea1398
smallc1500
flexible1612
short1612
agilec1635
skinking1786
inviscid1913
the world > matter > gas > air > [adjective] > specific qualities of (the) air > thin or light
smalla1398
subtlea1398
rarefied1523
subtile1590
thin1667
volatile1698
ambient1763
a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iii. xix. [xxvii.] 244 Nemne medmicel hlafes mid þinre meolc.
a1000 Boeth. Metr. v. 6 Ær se þicca mist þynra weorðe.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 314 Hrer on blede oþ hit sie þicce swa þynne briw.
c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 12 Late it be nowt to þikke ne to þinne, but as potage shulde be.
c1480 (a1400) St. Justina 735 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 173 Vndir it a fyre gert ma, til þat mater [sc. pitch and brimstone] wes moltyne thyne.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 280/2 Thyn cloude in the ayre.
1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) ii. ii. i. i. 222 Pure, thinne, light water.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 348 Fish..cannot change Thir Element to draw the thinner Aire. View more context for this quotation
1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §121 An exceeding thin volatile oil.
1850 Young Patent in Law Times Rep. 10 862/1 Chalk, ground up with a little water into a thin paste.
b. transferred and figurative. Wanting body or substance; unsubstantial; intangible. Also in to vanish (melt, etc.) into thin air: to disappear completely from sight or existence (formerly only of spirits). More rarely to come (etc.) out of thin air. Now chiefly colloquial.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > be or become invisible [verb (intransitive)] > vanish or disappear
formeltc893
wendOE
witea1000
aworthc1000
fleec1200
fleetc1200
withdraw1297
vanish1303
voidc1374
unkithea1400
startc1405
disappearc1425
disparishc1425
to fall awayc1443
evanish?a1475
vade1495
sinka1500
vade1530
fly1535
fadea1538
melt?1567
dispear1600
relinquish1601
foist1603
dispersea1616
to vanish (melt, etc.) into thin aira1616
dissipate1626
retire1647
evaporate1713
merge1802
illude1820
to foam off1826
dislimn1833
furl1844
to step out1844
evanesce1855
shade1880
wisp1883
to go to the winds1884
walk1898
to do a disappearing act1913
to go west1916
to do (or take) a fade1949
to phase out1970
the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [adjective]
flittingc1374
aerya1398
bottomlessa1413
hollowa1529
flittering1549
wanzing1571
aerial1581
slight1585
flit1590
windy1593
filmy1594
tenuous1597
unsubstantial1597
yeasty1598
thingless1599
airy1600
spare1602
spongy1603
insubstantial1607
baselessa1616
thina1616
insolid1618
insubstantiate1621
tenuious1634
bubble1635
thin-spun1638
subventaneous1646
unsubstanceda1658
whipped1673
aericala1678
huffy1678
blatherya1693
naughty1696
substanceless1784
vapoury1818
aeriform1827
airified1837
blow-away1858
non-substantial1858
unbased1860
evasive1881
stuffless1896
fabricless1905
lighter-than-air1909
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > be visible [verb (intransitive)] > appear or become visible
ariseOE
to come in (also to, on, etc.) placec1225
'peara1382
appear1382
kithea1400
to show out?a1425
muster?1435
to come forthc1449
to look outa1470
apparish1483
to show forth1487
come1531
to come out?1548
peer1568
to look through1573
glimpse1596
loom1605
rise1615
emicate1657
emike1657
present1664
opena1691
emerge1700
dawn1744
to come down the pike1812
to open out1813
to crop out1849
unmask1858
to come through1868
to show up1879
to come (etc.) out of thin air1932
surface1961
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 150 These our actors..were all Spirits, and Are melted into Ayre, into thin Ayre. View more context for this quotation
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd i. 499 Satan bowing low His gray dissimulation, disappear'd Into thin Air diffus'd. View more context for this quotation
1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 3 The lab'ring Plow-man oft with Horror spies Thin airy Shapes, that o'er the Furrows rise.
1724 R. Welton Substance Christian Faith 120 All the thin and airy delights of the world.
c1800 W. Blake Vala v, in Compl. Writings (1966) 305 As plants wither'd by winter..Melt into thin air.
1892 B. F. Westcott Gospel of Life 108 Man cannot live in the thin atmosphere of abstractions.
1904 J. Conrad Nostromo i. i. 4 Vapours that..vanish into thin air.
1907 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 402 Logic is too thin and bloodless a thing to govern life.
1918 L. Strachey Eminent Victorians 223 The Ever Victorious Army..was an ill-disciplined, ill-organised body..constantly on the verge of mutiny..and, at the slightest provocation, melting into thin air.
1932 W. Faulkner Light in August ix. 204 Having apparently materialised out of thin air.
1951 Sport 7 Jan. 16/2 Speed, confidence, shooting ability, all seemed to have vanished into thin air.
1977 ‘E. McBain’ Long Time no See xi. 181 The recurring nightmares hadn't come out of thin air.
c. Wanting depth or intensity; faint, weak, dim, pale. Formerly of light (archaic): in modern use, of colours, painting, or the like.
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the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adjective] > faint or weak
wateryOE
dima1250
lighta1398
rare?1440
delayed1543
faint1552
weak1585
pale1598
distempered1621
washya1639
thin1649
languid1663
dilute1665
welmish1688
sickly1695
dimmed1863
the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > dimness or absence of brightness > [adjective] > specifically of light
palec1385
thin1649
mazy1728
low1811
1649 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs 90 Yet its Glory did appeare But thinne, because her eyes were neere.
1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. ii. 3 The Moon hath a light of her own: but very thin.
1875 C. D. E. Fortnum Maiolica xiv. 156 The use of a bright yellow..in imitations of the golden lustre, and a thin green.
1893 J. A. Hodges Elem. Photogr. (1907) 102 Thin and rather weak negatives.
1894 Athenæum 3 Mar. 285/3 The figures are half-lengths, and executed in a thin, hard, and laborious manner.
d. Of sound: Wanting fullness, volume, or depth; weak and high-pitched; shrill and feeble.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [adjective] > thin and shrill
extenuate1555
thin1690
1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian ii. i. 37 I hear the groans of Ghosts; Thin, hollow sounds, and lamentable screams.
1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxiv. 8 Trembling the Spectres glide, and plaintive vent Thin, hollow screams.
1824 C. Lamb in London Mag. Nov. 482/1 Be dumb, thou thin accompanier of her thinner warble!
a1895 W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) II. 314 I heard..the trowels fall Upon the stone, a thin noise far away.
1901 Scotsman 15 Mar. 7/4 The possessor of the thinnest treble in the Irish quarter..piped tremulously.
e. Of a spark (cf. fat adj. 3c).
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1907 Rep. Brit. Assoc. 731 The long thin spark that occurs in this case is not very suitable for wireless telegraphy, as its resistance is too high.
4. figurative. Deficient in substance or quality; poor; unsubstantial.
a. Of immaterial things: Wanting in fulness, breadth, force, or vigour; scanty, insufficient; weak, feeble; slight; of little worth.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [adjective] > weak (of immaterial things)
thin?c1225
wateryc1230
feeble1393
wash1548
waterish1549
fadea1554
limping1577
dilute1605
lank1607
languid1622
water gruel1630
invalid1635
sinewless1644
exsanguine1647
flaccid1647
diluted1681
wishy-washy1693
tiffany1694
foible1715
rickety1738
faintly1771
unrobust1775
pale1820
peely-wally1832
muscleless1841
weakling1848
weedy?1858
feeblose1882
papery1924
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > insubstantial
thin?c1225
lighta1413
superficiala1425
sleevelessc1450
frivolous1549
frothy1593
windy1593
shallow1594
airy1600
ghostlessa1603
sleazy1648
tenuious1656
wishy-washy1693
gauzy1774
lathery1803
wish-washy1814
tenuousa1817
toy1821
flimsy1827
airy-fairy1857
facile1857
feeblish1882
popcorn1973
the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [adjective] > superficial
thin?c1225
superficialc1456
shallowc1595
superficiary1605
eccentric1633
outside1644
tenuious1656
swimminga1680
outwarda1682
two-dimensional1934
the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [adjective] > limited in quantity or amount > scanty or meagre > specifically of immaterial things
thin?c1225
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective]
feeblec1400
colourlessc1425
flagging1540
pithless1555
blanched1570
toothless1592
unpointed1604
unsinewed1604
jejune1615
low-pitched1622
unsinewy?1623
macilent1624
flaccid1647
insinewy1653
unsubstanceda1658
incogent1667
pointless1673
languida1677
enervatea1704
unaccentuated1716
unnervate1725
lank1729
unforcible1754
nerveless1763
weak1771
flabby1793
slip-slop1814
tinkling1822
exsanguinea1834
twittery1840
slipshod1842
under-coloured1870
shaftless1881
thin1890
unaccented1893
wimpish1925
wimp1979
a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) v. xvii. [xix.] 462 Nemne ðynre eðunge anre ætywde þæt he lifes wæs.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 84 Hwilc mægen sie & sio gecynd þæs lichoman, hwæþer hio sie strang.., þe hio sie hnesce & mearwe & þynne.]
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 115 Vre good þet is swa þunne. vre sunnen þet beoð swa monie.
c1315 Shoreham iii. 272 Hare wyȝt [= wit] hys al to þenne.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 113 My witte was oure thynne So strange speche to trauayle in.
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) ii. met. vii. 47 The thynne fame yit lastynge of hir ydel names, is marked with a fewe letterys.
c1425 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 1591 My brayne ys so thynne.
1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 2v As thinne inuention, as other poore men.
1580 H. Gifford Posie of Gilloflowers ii. sig. Q.2 Yet was her wit but thin.
1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 65 They are gallant in their persons, but thin in relations.
1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen vii. 109 Engaged in very thin conversation.
1888 Daily News 9 July 4/8 The apology is a very lame one—what our American cousins call ‘thin’.
1890 Spectator 16 Aug. 221/2 This is about the thinnest travel-book we have ever read.
1894 Westm. Gaz. 5 Feb. 1/2 Really, has not this laudation of the old at the expense of the new become a little too thin?
b. Of diet or supplies: Scanty, meagre, spare; not full or rich; poor, low. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [adjective] > limited in quantity or amount > scanty or meagre
feeblec1275
straita1300
thinc1374
threadbarec1412
exile?1440
silly?a1500
pilled1526
thinnish1540
carrion-lean1542
carrion1565
exiled?1577
penurious1594
unnourishing1605
starveling1611
meagre1612
short-handed1622
lanka1644
scrimp1681
strigose1708
skimp1775
skimping1775
spare1813
shy1821
scrimping1823
skimpy1842
slim1852
scrappy1985
minnowy1991
c1374 G. Chaucer Former Age 36 Ther as vitayle is ek so skars and thinne [v.r. thynne].
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 5264 Bot vytayls were ful thynn.
c1485 Digby Myst. iii. 1733 Yower spendyng is thyn.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 618 Becaus he wes in his substance so thyn.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iv. iv. 60 At so slender warning, You are like to haue a thin and slender pittance. View more context for this quotation
1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 19 Nor hath God a thinner share.
1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 196 In these Fasting is necessary, or a thin Diet.
1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey IV. vi. i. 20 Thin entertainment here, kind Sir.
c. spec. Of liquor: Without body; not strong or rich; of low alcoholic strength; weak. (Cf. A. 3.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > types or qualities of intoxicating liquor > [adjective] > weak or diluted
smallc1420
thinc1440
single1483
watered1540
smally1577
distempered1743
shilpit1814
seven-water grog1834
three-water1840
two-water1905
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xix. 398 I can selle Bothe dregges & draffe, and drawe it at on hole, Þikke ale and þinne ale.]
c1440 Alphabet of Tales 6 I may not drynk your thyn ale.
1560 Bp. J. Pilkington Aggeus the Prophete (1562) 90 Loke howe many of youre poore neighbours..drink thin drink.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. ii. 120 To forsweare thinpotations [sic], and to addict themselues to sacke. View more context for this quotation
1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 138 Thin drink, small Beer, Cerevisia tenuis.
1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities ii. xv. 108 Monsieur Defarge sold a very thin wine at the best of times.
d. a thin time: a wretched period of experience. colloquial.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > tribulation, trouble, or affliction
teeneOE
harmOE
sourc1000
trayOE
angec1175
wosithc1200
ail?c1225
barrat?c1225
misease?c1225
passion?c1225
troublec1230
sorenessc1275
grievancea1300
cumbermentc1300
cumbering1303
thro1303
angera1325
strifea1325
sweama1325
encumbrancec1330
tribulationc1330
threst1340
mischiefa1375
pressc1375
unhend1377
miseasetya1382
angernessc1390
molestc1390
troublancec1400
notea1425
miseasenessc1450
cumber?a1513
tribule1513
unseasonableness?1523
troublesomeness1561
tribulance1575
tine1590
trials and tribulations1591
pressure1648
difficulty1667
hell to pay1758
dree1791
trial and tribulation1792
Queer Street1811
Sturm und Drang1857
a thin time1924
shit1929
crap1932
shtook1936
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > [noun] > painful time
a thin time1924
the mind > emotion > suffering > misery > [noun] > miserable period of existence
a thin time1924
1924 A. J. Small Frozen Gold iv. 108 Yes, sure, you go…If you don't, she will give me such a thin time.
1935 Economist 17 Aug. 326/1 Dairy farming and lumbering and doing poorly; while the mountain peasantry especially are having a thin time.
1955 Times 22 Aug. 3/3 The London sides in the Championship had a thin time. Not one of them won.
e. Economics. Of or pertaining to a stock market (or to stocks, shares) in which trading is light.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [adjective] > feeling or state of market
sensitive1813
bearish1827
light1827
quiet1833
easy1836
soft1849
weak1856
steady1857
buoyant1868
sick1870
swimming1870
featureless1879
bullish1882
firm1887
gravelly1887
technical1889
pippy1892
manipulated1903
thin1931
volatile1931
trendless1939
nervous1955
toppy1961
over-bullish1970
toppish1983
1931 Economist 28 Feb. 441/2 Prices were marked up to 10 cents a pound in the hope of attracting buyers who had refused to take metal at 9½ cents, but the market remains thin.
1946 Sun (Baltimore) 17 Jan. 12–0/1 Some of the ‘thin’ shares tacked on around six points.
1964 Financial Times 3 Mar. 19/2 Further speculative buying in a thin market led to a fresh rise.
1981 Times 30 June 20/1 Dealers described turnover as thin.
B. n. mostly elliptical or nonce-uses.
thin and thick: see thick and thin n., adv., and adj.
ΚΠ
c1350 St. Jacob 173 (xix.) in Horstmann Altengl. Leg. (1881) 99/1 Þai suld noght leue for thin ne thik Till þai war broght bath ded or quik.
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 11135 I [Youth] passe bothe thorgh thynne & thykke.
1895 G. Allen Woman who Did xix. 203 This very fact that she had always lived in the Thick of Things made a change to the Thin of Things only by so much the more delicious and enchanting.
C. adv.
1. † b. In a poor or sparing manner. Obsolete.
a. = thinly adv. 1 †to go thin: to wear thin clothing, to be thinly clad (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > thickness > thinness > [adverb] > thin
thina1250
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [verb (intransitive)] > in specific way > types of
to cover (one's head)c1340
scrub1590
wimple1591
sag1592
to go thina1610
to be covered1611
rustlea1616
to keep on1621
veil1714
to shake (have) a cloth in the wind1834
smock-frock1840
pad1873
tighten1896
tight-lace1898
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > thickness > thinness > [adverb]
thina1631
thinly1772
a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1529 Wel þunne isrud & ived wroþe.
a1610 J. Healey tr. Theophrastus Characters (1636) 11 Why hee goes so thinne, and why hee will not go better cloth'd?
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1962) X. 51 Spread we this a little thinner, and we shall better see through it.
1633 G. Herbert Praise in Temple vii My heart, Though press'd, runnes thin.
1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iv. i. sig. Eeee4 The people go extreme thin in the sharpest Winter.
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. p. xliii They ought to be husbanded better, and spread much thinner.
1804 ‘Ignotus’ Culina 157 Cut the chops very thin.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > diet > [adverb] > sparingly
thin1607
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 417 Let the horse be thinne dieted, during his curing time.
2. = thinly adv. 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [adverb]
seldom-whenc888
seldomc897
seld-whenc897
seldoma1000
seldc1000
seldom-timec1386
seld-timec1386
seld-whilea1387
seld-where1390
thinc1405
rare?1440
sendle?a1500
daintilya1513
thinlyc1545
rarely1546
once in a moon1547
out-takingly1549
seldomly1549
for once and away1583
sparingly1590
scarce1596
unfrequently1646
unoften1654
infrequently1673
once in a while1765
sporadically1765
sparselya1871
seldom-while1876
(for) once in a way1891
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [adverb] > here and there at wide intervals
thinc1405
thinlyc1545
sparsim1587
scatteredly1612
sprinklingly1615
sparse1725
sparsely1796
sporadically1852
tenuously1892
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 679 But thynne it lay, by colpons oon and oon.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) iv. 685 Bot þai prophetis so thyn ar sawin.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie T 141 Seldome: not oft: thinne: not thicke, rare.
1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved To Husbandman sig. e3 The earlier thou sowest, the thinner thou mayest sow thy winter corne.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 34 To sow something thinner than ordinary.
1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 37 The thinner sheep are pastured the healthier they are.
Compounds
Combinations. C1. Of the adjective.
a. Chiefly parasynthetic adjectives. See also thin-gutted adj., thin-skinned adj., thin-walled adj.† thin-gaskined adj. [gaskin n.1 2] Obsolete
thin-bedded adj.
ΚΠ
1859 R. I. Murchison Siluria (new ed.) iv. 75 We reach the thin-bedded..flags.
thin-bladed adj.
ΚΠ
1855 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gen. Bounce ix A thin-bladed knife and two-pronged fork.
thin-blooded adj.
ΚΠ
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Thin-blooded.
1959 Times 10 June 7/3 The rest of the programme, though it sometimes achieved a sort of thin-blooded distinction, was really rather disappointing.
thin-brained adj. (in sense A. 4a.)
ΚΠ
1599 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie (new ed.) iii. Satyra Nova sig. G8v Thin-braind Ideots, dull, vncapable.
thin-cheeked adj.
ΚΠ
1596 R. Linche Dom Diego in Diella sig. F2v In my thin-cheekt face thou well maist see.
thin-dawned adj.
ΚΠ
1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (ii. 1) 405 Away with that thin-dawn'd [printed thin-danw'd] profession.
thin-faced adj.
ΚΠ
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) v. i. 204 A thin fac'd knaue, a gull. View more context for this quotation
1899 S. R. Crockett Kit Kennedy xii. 88 A thin-faced..woman, with an air of being perpetually tired.
thin-flanked adj.
ΚΠ
1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 148 You married that thin-flanked woman.
thin-filmed adj.
ΚΠ
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V clxiv, in Poems (1878) IV. 142 The thin-film'd Bladder breakes.
ΚΠ
1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. v. 102 Some Horses are so thin Gascoign'd, that they will never look plump.
thin-haired adj.
ΚΠ
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xviii. xv The Bugle is..þynne hered.
thin-leaved adj.
ΚΠ
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 74 The thin-leav'd Arbute Hazle, graffs receives. View more context for this quotation
thin-lipped adj.
ΚΠ
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. vi. i. 130 The Thin-Lip'd Wilk.
1907 H. Wyndham Flare of Footlights vii An unpleasant smile playing about the corners of his thin-lipped mouth.
thin-rinded adj. (also †thin rined)
ΚΠ
1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 120 Our Wheat is large, full-brested, and thin-rined.
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 572 The most plump and thinnest-rinded grain.
thin-soled adj.
ΚΠ
1682 T. Otway Venice Preserv'd iii. 34 Catharrs and Tooth Ach got By thin-sol'd shoos.
thin-stemmed adj.
thin-legged adj.
ΚΠ
1897 Daily News 2 Oct. 2/3 Cranes and herons and ibis and other thin-legged water fowl.
thin-stocked adj.
ΚΠ
1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey I. 315 An Albanian with his long thin-stocked gun.
b. Special combinations and collocations:
thin-bellied adj. lean, hungry-looking.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin
leanc1000
thinc1000
swonga1300
meagrea1398
empty?c1400
(as) thin (also lean, rank) as a rakec1405
macilent?a1425
rawc1425
gauntc1440
to be skin and bone (also bones)c1450
leany?a1475
swampc1480
scarrya1500
pinched1514
extenuate1528
lean-fleshed1535
carrion-lean1542
spare1548
lank1553
carrion1565
brawn-fallen1578
raw-bone1590
scraggeda1591
thin-bellied1591
rake-lean1593
bare-boned1594
forlorn1594
Lented1594
lean-looked1597
shotten herring1598
spiny1598
starved1598
thin-belly1598
raw-boned1600
larbar1603
meagry?1603
fleshless1605
scraggy1611
ballow1612
lank-leana1616
skinnya1616
hagged1616
scraggling1616
carrion-like1620
extenuated1620
thin-gutted1620
haggard1630
scrannel1638
leanisha1645
skeletontal1651
overlean1657
emaciated1665
slank1668
lathy1672
emaciate1676
nithered1691
emacerated1704
lean-looking1713
scranky1735
squinny-gut(s)1742
mauger1756
squinny1784
angular1789
etiolated1791
as thin (also lean) as a rail1795
wiry1808
slink1817
scranny1820
famine-hollowed1822
sharp featured1824
reedy1830
scrawny1833
stringy1833
lean-ribbeda1845
skeletony1852
famine-pinched1856
shelly1866
flesh-fallen1876
thinnish1884
all horn and hide1890
unfurnished1893
bone-thin1899
underweight1899
asthenic1925
skin-and-bony1935
skinny-malinky1940
skeletal1952
pencil-neck1960
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Trasijado Lanke, thinne bellied.
thin-belly n. one who has a thin belly; in quot. attributive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin
leanc1000
thinc1000
swonga1300
meagrea1398
empty?c1400
(as) thin (also lean, rank) as a rakec1405
macilent?a1425
rawc1425
gauntc1440
to be skin and bone (also bones)c1450
leany?a1475
swampc1480
scarrya1500
pinched1514
extenuate1528
lean-fleshed1535
carrion-lean1542
spare1548
lank1553
carrion1565
brawn-fallen1578
raw-bone1590
scraggeda1591
thin-bellied1591
rake-lean1593
bare-boned1594
forlorn1594
Lented1594
lean-looked1597
shotten herring1598
spiny1598
starved1598
thin-belly1598
raw-boned1600
larbar1603
meagry?1603
fleshless1605
scraggy1611
ballow1612
lank-leana1616
skinnya1616
hagged1616
scraggling1616
carrion-like1620
extenuated1620
thin-gutted1620
haggard1630
scrannel1638
leanisha1645
skeletontal1651
overlean1657
emaciated1665
slank1668
lathy1672
emaciate1676
nithered1691
emacerated1704
lean-looking1713
scranky1735
squinny-gut(s)1742
mauger1756
squinny1784
angular1789
etiolated1791
as thin (also lean) as a rail1795
wiry1808
slink1817
scranny1820
famine-hollowed1822
sharp featured1824
reedy1830
scrawny1833
stringy1833
lean-ribbeda1845
skeletony1852
famine-pinched1856
shelly1866
flesh-fallen1876
thinnish1884
all horn and hide1890
unfurnished1893
bone-thin1899
underweight1899
asthenic1925
skin-and-bony1935
skinny-malinky1940
skeletal1952
pencil-neck1960
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iii. i. 17 Your armes crost on your thinbellies doblet. View more context for this quotation
thin coal n. coal found in shallow beds or seams: cf. thick coal n. at thick adj. and n. Compounds 2b.
ΚΠ
1855 J. Phillips Man. Geol. 188 Strata and thin coals.
1900 Engin. Mag. 19 717 In days gone by thin seams were worked by special thin coal miners.
thin-film adj. applied to processes and devices that employ or involve a very thin solid or liquid film.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > [adjective] > involving thin film
thin-film1956
1956 Nature 24 Mar. 571/2 Thin-film lubrication.
1963 New Scientist 21 Mar. 632/3 Thin-film memories and logic devices.
1966 D. G. Brandon Mod. Techniques Metallogr. ii. 90 Variations in absorption with crystalline perfection contribute significantly to the contrast in thin-film transmission microscopy.
1970 Brit. Printer July 69/2 The advent of thin-film inks gave the screen printer a choice which had not previously existed.
thin fount n. Typography (see quot. 1906).
ΚΠ
1906 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. s.v. Founts of type of which the lower case letters a to z measure in width less than twelve times the depth of their body are called thin founts.
thin-headed adj. having a thin or narrow head; figurative shallow-pated, silly.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective]
sloweOE
stuntc960
dullOE
hardOE
stuntlyc1000
sotc1050
dillc1175
dulta1225
simplea1325
heavy1340
astonedc1374
sheepishc1380
dull-witteda1387
lourd1390
steerishc1411
ass-likea1425
brainless?a1439
deafc1440
sluggishc1450
short-witted1477
obtuse1509
peakish1519
wearish1519
deaf, or dumb as a beetle1520
doileda1522
gross1526
headlessa1530
stulty1532
ass-headed1533
pot-headed1533
stupid?1541
sheep's head1542
doltish1543
dumpish1545
assish1548
blockish1548
slow-witted1548
blockheaded1549
surd1551
dull-headed1552
hammer-headed1552
skit-brained?1553
buzzardly1561
witless1562
log-headeda1566
assy1566
sottish1566
dastardly1567
stupidious1567
beetle-headed1570
calvish1570
bluntish1578
cod's-headed1578
grout-headed1578
bedaft1579
dull-pated1580
blate1581
buzzard-like1581
long-eared1582
dullard1583
woodena1586
duncical1588
leaden-headed1589
buzzard1592
dorbellical1592
dunstical1592
heavy-headeda1593
shallow-brained1592
blunt-witted1594
mossy1597
Bœotian1598
clay-brained1598
fat1598
fat-witted1598
knotty-pated1598
stupidous1598
wit-lost1599
barren1600
duncifiedc1600
lourdish1600
stockish1600
thick1600
booby1603
leaden-pated1603
partless1603
thin-headed1603
leaden-skulledc1604
blockhead1606
frost-brained1606
ram-headed1608
beef-witted1609
insulse1609
leaden-spirited1609
asininec1610
clumse1611
blockheadly1612
wattle-headed1613
flata1616
logger-headeda1616
puppy-headeda1616
shallow-patedc1616
thick-brained1619
half-headed1621
buzzard-blinda1625
beef-brained1628
toom-headed1629
thick-witted1634
woollen-witted1635
squirrel-headed1637
clod-pated1639
lean-souled1639
muddy-headed1642
leaden-witteda1645
as sad as any mallet1645
under-headed1646
fat-headed1647
half-witted1647
insipid1651
insulsate1652
soft-headed1653
thick-skulleda1657
muddish1658
non-intelligent1659
whey-brained1660
sap-headed1665
timber-headed1666
leather-headeda1668
out of (one's) tree1669
boobily1673
thoughtless1673
lourdly1674
logger1675
unintelligenta1676
Bœotic1678
chicken-brained1678
under-witted1683
loggerhead1684
dunderheaded1692
unintelligible1694
buffle-headed1697
crassicc1700
numbskulled1707
crassous1708
doddy-polled1708
haggis-headed1715
niddy-noddy1722
muzzy1723
pudding-headed1726
sumphish1728
pitcher-souleda1739
duncey1743
hebete1743
chuckheaded1756
dumb1756
duncely1757
imbecile1766
mutton-headed1768
chuckle-headed1770
jobbernowl1770
dowfarta1774
boobyish1778
wittol1780
staumrel1787
opaquec1789
stoopid1791
mud-headed1793
borné1795
muzzy-headed1798
nog-headed1800
thick-headed1801
gypit1804
duncish1805
lightweight1809
numbskull1814
tup-headed1816
chuckle-pate1820
unintellectuala1821
dense1822
ninnyish1822
dunch1825
fozy1825
potato-headed1826
beef-headed1828
donkeyish1831
blockheadish1833
pinheaded1837
squirrel-minded1837
pumpkin-headed1838
tomfoolish1838
dundering1840
chicken-headed1842
like a bump on a log1842
ninny-minded1849
numbheadeda1852
nincompoopish1852
suet-brained1852
dolly1853
mullet-headed1853
sodden1853
fiddle-headed1854
numb1854
bovine1855
logy1859
crass1861
unsmart1861
off his chump1864
wooden-headed1865
stupe1866
lean-minded1867
duffing1869
cretinous1871
doddering1871
thick-head1873
doddling1874
stupido1879
boneheaded1883
woolly-headed1883
leaden-natured1889
suet-headed1890
sam-sodden1891
dopey1896
turnip-headed1898
bonehead1903
wool-witted1905
peanut-headed1906
peanut-brained1907
dilly1909
torpid-minded1909
retardate1912
nitwitted1917
meat-headed1918
mug1922
cloth-headed1925
loopy1925
nitwit1928
lame-brained1929
dead from the neck up1930
simpy1932
nail-headed1936
square-headed1936
dingbats1937
pinhead1939
dim-witted1940
pea-brained1942
clueless1943
lobotomized1943
retarded1949
pointy-headed1950
clottish1952
like a stunned mullet1953
silly (or crazy) as a two-bob watch1954
out to lunch1955
pin-brained1958
dozy1959
eejity1964
out of one's tiny mind1965
doofus1967
twitty1967
twittish1969
twatty1975
twattish1976
blur1977
dof1979
goofus1981
dickheaded1991
dickish1991
numpty1992
cockish1996
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > types of head > [adjective] > having
headedOE
cop-headed1519
small-headedc1540
jolt-headed1552
chuff-headed1563
ass-headed1584
two-headed1596
golden-headed1598
hard-headed1601
big-headed1614
bicipitous1646
buffle-headed1654
female-headed1655
heavy-headed1684
bullet-headed1699
jolter-headed1748
pinheaded1771
pigheaded1774
thin-headed1804
roundhead1842
bulbous-headed1860
blob-headed1865
occipital1873
fat-headed1883
mesopic1885
peanut-headed1906
dome-headed1910
1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. A3v Thin-headed fellowes that liue vpon the scraps of inuention.
1804 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. V. 237 Thin-headed Carp, Cyprinus Leptocephalus.
thin-layer chromatography n. [translating German dünnschicht-chromatographie (E. Stahl 1956, in Pharmazie XI. 633)] Chemistry chromatography in which compounds are separated on a thin layer of adsorbent material such as charcoal or silica gel.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > chemistry > chemical assay or analytical chemistry > [noun] > acetimetry > chromatography > types
partition chromatography1943
paper chromatography1947
ionography1950
gas chromatography1952
thin-layer chromatography1957
TLC1961
affinity chromatography1968
1957 Chem. Abstr. 51 6948 (heading) Thin-layer chromatography (the method, affecting factors, and a few examples of application).
1961 Jrnl. Amer. Oil Chemists' Soc. 38 313/1 Two procedures for the analysis of mixtures of mono-, di-, and triglycerides. One employs..thin-layer chromatography.
1967 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 5 267 Thin layer chromatography can pinpoint some inaccuracies in the interpretation of spectra and give a more adequate image of the variety of pigments.
1978 H. H. Bauer et al. Instrumental Anal. xxi. 626 Appreciation of the full advantages of planar chromatography then led to thin-layer chromatography (TLC).
thin-minded adj. rare narrow-minded, prejudiced.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > narrow-mindedness > [adjective]
narrowed1599
narrow-minded1611
narrow1612
small1619
narrow1622
tub-brained1634
narrow-souled1641
narrow-spirited1645
narrow-compassed1647
illiberal1649
cat-witted1672
stingy1694
little-minded1707
straitened1712
unenlarged1741
contracted1765
one-eyed1779
unliberalized1793
nippit1808
small-minded1811
narrow-brained1835
narrow visioned1853
thin-minded1862
narrow-gauge1872
one-track1900
narrow-gutted1903
tunnel-visioned1968
1862 A. Trollope Small House at Allington in Cornhill Mag. Sept. 372 Such thin-minded men can hardly go to the proof of any matter without some pre-judgment in their minds.
thin-miner n. see quot.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > coal-miner > other specific coal-mine workers
gates-mana1649
getter1688
coal washer1859
gasman1876
spragger?1881
stoneman1883
thin-miner1892
shotman1905
shiftsman1921
strapper1921
Bevin boy1944
pit yacker1961
1892 Labour Comm. Gloss. Thin miners, miners who get coal out of thin seams.
thin seam n. (also attributive), see quots.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > stratum or bed > of coal > type of coal seam
foot coal1665
foot-rid1665
top coal1803
ten-yard coal1839
rider1840
ten-foot coal1855
top-hard1855
yard-coal1855
yard-seam1862
guide seam1867
main1867
bank1881
rearer1883
thick coal1883
thick seam1883
thin seam1883
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Thin Seams,..coal seams (say) less than 3 feet in thickness.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Sept. 12/1 The coal-mining industry in the thin-seam districts.
thin section n. a thin, flat piece of rock or tissue prepared with a thickness of about 0·03 mm. for examination with an optical microscope; also, a piece of tissue of the order of 30 nm. thick prepared for electron microscopy.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [noun] > dissection > examination by microscope > section prepared for examination
thin section1858
section1870
serial section1878
1858 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 14 469 For some purposes, however, thin sections are quite indispensable.
1872 F. Delafield Handbk. Post-mortem Exam. i. 21 The proportion of alcohol is to be afterward increased until the mucous membrane is hard enough to be cut into thin sections.
1916 Jordan & Ferguson Text-bk. Histol. xx. 734 Thick sections may be obtained from the firmer tissues by free~hand sectioning with a razor, but for the satisfactory preparation of thin sections a microtome is a necessity.
1956 Nature 14 Jan. 98/1 Although electron microscope contrast may be increased by the use of objective apertures, accurate focusing in thin-section work is still difficult.
1970 Nature 17 Oct. 251/2 Petrological analysis by thin section has enabled the locality of origin of axes made from hard rock to be identified.
thin-sectioning n. the making of thin sections.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [noun] > dissection > examination by microscope > preparation of
thin-sectioning1964
1964 G. H. Haggis et al. Introd. Molecular Biol. v. 135 The pellet which contains them [sc. mitochondria] can be identified, and its purity assessed, by thin-sectioning of the osmium-fixed embedded pellet.
1978 Sci. Amer. May 141/2 There are two principal specimen-preparation methods for rendering cells suitable for examination in the electron microscope: thin-sectioning and freeze-fracturing.
thin space n. Typography a piece of metal used for separating words, cast five to an em of its own body; cf. thick space n. at thick adj. and n. Compounds 2b.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > printing > composing equipment > [noun] > spacing material > that separates words
thin space1683
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 215 Thin-spaces being..Cast only that the Compositer may Justifie his Lines the Truer.
1808 C. Stower Printer's Gram. iii. 90 Of Spaces... Five to an m—or five thin spaces.
1892 A. Oldfield Pract. Man. Typogr. ii. 20 Thin spaces..are very useful in a close-spaced line.
1968 J. R. Biggs Basic Typogr. 76/2 Space between words is achieved by means of tiny bricks of metal... They are..thin space..thick space..hair space.
thin-worn adj. made thin by wear.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > by loss of material or wasted > worn > worn thin
thin-worn1823
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > thickness > thinness > [adjective] > made or become thin > by wear
thin-worn1823
1823 A. Grant Let. 21 July in Mem. & Corr. (1844) III. 31 Easily she threw off the thin-worn robe of mortality.
C2. Of the adverb: with participles or adjectives, to which thin is now joined by a hyphen, or as a single word; forming adjectives, usually of obvious meaning, unlimited in number, as, in sense A. 1. See also thin-sown adj., thin-spun adj.
thin-cut adj.
thin-frozen adj.
ΚΠ
1865 W. J. Linton 3 Englishmen Alfred, He..breaks a way through the thin-frozen sludge.
thin-laid adj.
thin-lined adj.
ΚΠ
1908 Westm. Gaz. 29 Sept. 4/2 Prices that need not stand in the way of the thinnest-lined of purses.
thin-pervading adj.
thin-veiled adj.
thin-wrought adj.
ΚΠ
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Leuidensis, thynne wrought, and of small substance.
C3. † thin-bred adj. Obsolete
ΚΠ
a1400–50 Alexander 320 A berd as a besom with thyn bred haris.
thin-descending adj.
thin-flowing adj.
ΚΠ
1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling i. ii. 18 A light thin-flowing style of mirth.
thin-grown adj.
thin-officered adj.
thin-peopled adj.
ΚΠ
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1690) i. 11 In thin peopled places.
thin-set adj.
ΚΠ
a1657 G. Daniel Poems (1878) II. 130 Hee, poore Swaine, in bare And thin-Set Shades did Sing.
1812 G. Crabbe Tales x. 187 The burning sand, the fields of thin-set rye.
thin-shot adj.
ΚΠ
1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. I4v Their thin shot shadowings And lightned sides.
C4.
thin-clad adj. wearing thin clothes; also (U.S. colloquial) absol. as n., an athlete.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > athlete
gamer1564
athletic1682
athlete1822
gymnasiarch1825
weekend athlete1941
thin-clad1947
Olympian1977
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. xvii. 342 'Tis not safe..to go abroad thin clad.
1947 Sun (Baltimore) 30 Oct. 19/2 (heading) Maryland thinclads beat navy.
1974 Anderson (S. Carolina) Independent 24 Apr. 5 b/1 Cliff Satterwhite..has been coaching the few Trojan thinclads.
Draft additions December 2002
thin client n. Computing (in a client-server network) a client terminal with minimal processing power and storage capacity, esp. one with no hard disk; cf. fat client n. at fat adj. and n.2 Additions.
ΚΠ
1992 DBMS Mar. 68/2 He expects the resulting compiled applications to appeal to organizations that want to run thin clients under Microsoft Windows tied to database servers.
1997 T3 Feb. 12/2 The Javastation is designed to be a ‘thin client’ (cut-down) computer which uses and stores software from a centralised server, and has no hard disc of its own.
2001 N.Z. Infotech Weekly (Electronic text) 19 Nov. For many New Zealand companies dumping the PC and moving to thin-client computing offers a chance to dramatically cut IT costs and complexity—and more and more companies are doing it.
Draft additions September 2008
thin gruel n. a watery gruel, typically having poor nutritional content; (figurative) something insubstantial, unsatisfying, or inadequate.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > gruel or broth for invalids > [noun]
gruel1362
water gruel?c1450
cullisc1460
chicken brothc1540
coulis1603
barley-milk1607
maize-cream1626
chicken water1684
barley-cream1694
thin gruel1699
viper-broth1702
wangracea1733
barley-gruel1769
beef-tea1783
conjee1789
Revalenta1848
skink1880
toast-water1905
1699 S. Garth Dispensary iv. 41 Cloy'd with Variety they surfeit there, Whilst the wan Patients on thin Gruel fare.
1777 Philos. Trans. 1776 (Royal Soc.) 66 430 The regimen enjoined him, with respect to diet, was only gruel, panado, and sage-tea, with barley water or thin gruel to drink.
1854 Era 27 Aug. 9/4 Is it not enough to have to drink the thin gruel of personal experience, without repeating the obnoxious draught in the pages of fiction?
1940 Brit. Red Cross Soc. Cookery & Catering Man. (ed. 4) vi. 78 Additions in the shape of..thin gruel, followed up by clear soups..and light farinaceous puddings.
2003 Wall St. Jrnl. 10 Nov. a2/4 Smaller trade deals..are thin gruel compared with the original ambition of the Free Trade Area of the Americas.
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thinv.1
/θɪn/, U.S. /θɪn/ 1.
a. transitive. To make thin; to reduce in thickness or depth; to spread or draw out in a thin layer or thread. to thin off, down: to diminish gradually to vanishing point.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > reduce in size or extent [verb (transitive)]
thinc900
narroweOE
smalleOE
slakea1300
adminisha1325
minisha1382
reduce?c1400
diminish1417
littlea1500
extenuate1555
enstraiten1590
scantle1596
scant1599
bedwarfa1631
epitomize1630
dwarf1638
retrench1640
stunt1659
to take in1700
belittle1785
dwarfify1816
reduct1819
micrify1836
clip1858
downsize1977
the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > make less violent or severe [verb (transitive)] > weaken (something immaterial)
to thin off, downc900
feeblea1340
allayc1450
debilite1483
mollify1496
weak1502
geld?1507
water1529
appale?1530
labefact?1539
debilitate1541
mortify1553
effeeble1571
dilutea1575
soften1576
unsinew1599
melt1600
infringe1604
weaken1609
unbenda1616
dissinew1640
slacken1663
thin1670
resolve1715
imbecilitate1809
imbecile1829
to let down1832
to water down1832
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > thickness > thinness > make thin(ner) [verb (transitive)]
thinc900
extenuate1599
attenuate1794
the world > space > shape > fact or condition of tapering > taper [verb (transitive)]
taper1675
to thin off, down1793
snape1794
to tail off (out)1827
c900 Bede Glosses 80 in Old Eng. Texts 182 Obtenuerað (t), ðynnade.
c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints xxxiii. 236 And ne oncneow hi na for-þam heo wæs swiðe geþynnod.
1482 Monk of Evesham 41 For the stature and forme of some of them was as hyt had be lessyd or thynnyde by tormentys.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 34 To smooth and thinne the skinne.
1684 R. Waller tr. Ess. Nat. Exper. Acad. del Cimento 117 The battered Silver (which being so little Ductile did not at all thin, and distend it self).
1727 P. Longueville Hermit 196 He..takes away the Lining from the outside of his Clothing, in order to wear the thickest in the coldest Weather; and so thin his Dress by degrees.
1793 Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) 5 204 The two ends are to be thinned off in form of a wedge.
1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors III. iv. 66 She..had thinned her lips for utterance of a desperate thing.
b. figurative. (In quot. a1382 a literalism of translation.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > make less violent or severe [verb (transitive)] > weaken (something immaterial)
to thin off, downc900
feeblea1340
allayc1450
debilite1483
mollify1496
weak1502
geld?1507
water1529
appale?1530
labefact?1539
debilitate1541
mortify1553
effeeble1571
dilutea1575
soften1576
unsinew1599
melt1600
infringe1604
weaken1609
unbenda1616
dissinew1640
slacken1663
thin1670
resolve1715
imbecilitate1809
imbecile1829
to let down1832
to water down1832
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xxx. 19 Y shal glorifie them, and thei shuln not be thynned [L. non attenuabuntur].
1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 33 By this means he has usually so thinn'd his judgement.
1787 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 117 Real friends, whose affections are not thinned to cob-web.
1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist viii. 497 To thin down the distinction between the mission, character, education, and position of John and those of Christ.
2.
a. intransitive. To become thin or thinner; to decrease in thickness or depth. to thin out (off, away): to become gradually thinner until it disappears, as a layer or stratum. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > fact or condition of tapering > taper [verb (intransitive)]
taper1610
snape1794
to thin out (off, away)1804
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > thickness > thinness > become thin(ner) [verb (intransitive)]
thin1804
1804 S. T. Coleridge Let. to D. Stuart in Lett. (1895) 475 A rock which thins as it rises up.
1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 341 When a number of beds thin out gradually, and at different points.
1833 J. F. W. Herschel Astronomy viii. 256 The half-moon becomes a crescent, which thins off.
1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 ii. 473 In which direction the boulder clay appears to thin off.
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. xxii. 238 Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion.
1899 J. Hutchinson in Arch. Surg. X. 155 Their usual course is to cause the nail over them to thin and break down.
b. spec. To lose flesh; to become spare or lean.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > slim [verb (intransitive)] > thin
leanc897
relank1545
emaciate1646
to fall off1710
excarnate1735
skeletonize1831
thin1870
skinny1939
1870 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 Sept. 11 During this troubled period he had thinned so as to seem a different man.
1893 Chambers's Jrnl. 19 Aug. 523/2 Her fresh comeliness left her; her face thinned down.
3. transitive. To render less crowded or close by removing individuals; hence, to reduce in number.
a. With an assemblage of individuals as object.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > reduce in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)] > reduce in quantity or number
thinc1440
depopulate1545
shorten1604
disquantity1608
waste1617
dequantitate1646
paucify1648
castrate1728
shrink1832
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > space out > so as not to be crowded together > by removing individuals
thinc1440
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 491/1 Thynnyn, or make thynne, as wodys, cornys, gresse.
1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther ii. 46 As when the cause goes hard, the guilty man Excepts, and thins his jury all he can.
1699 S. Sewall Diary 24 Dec. (1973) I. 419 Our Meeting was pretty much thin'd by it.
1832 H. Martineau Homes Abroad i. 12 To thin our population.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xvi. 681 The malady which had thinned the ranks of Schomberg's army at Dundalk.
b. With the individuals as object.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > space out > so as not to be crowded together > by removing individuals > an individual
thin1697
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 87 T' unload the Branches or the Leaves to thin, That suck the Vital Moisture of the Vine. View more context for this quotation
1786 J. Abercrombie Gardeners Daily Assistant 257 Hoe and thin turneps.
1850 Florist Aug. Thin out superfluous shoots.
1856 C. Dickens Let. 15 June (1995) VIII. 135 Your friend..has thinned the trees.
1890 Spectator 19 Apr. For reducing the new expenditure on drink, and for thinning-off the public-houses in the rural districts.
c. To render (a place) less closely or numerously occupied by the removal of occupants.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > space out > so as not to be crowded together > by removing individuals > render a place less occupied by
thin1743
1743 R. Blair Grave 13 Who..In a cruel Wantonness of Power Thinn'd States of half their People.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 400 It would soon thin the forest of every other living creature.
1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire IV. xl. 507 The Forum and other public places were deliberately thinned of their overgrowths of sculpture.
1905 Daily Chron. 24 Aug. 4/7 A head already thinned of hair.
4. intransitive. Of a place: To become less full or crowded; of a crowd: to become less numerous.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > decrease in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (intransitive)] > decrease in quantity or number
wane1297
moulter1643
moulder1650
thin1779
weed1877
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter or be dispersed [verb (intransitive)] > be scattered at intervals > become sparse
thin1779
1779 Earl of Carlisle in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1844) IV. 180 The town begins to thin, though Parliament is still sitting.
1805 H. More in Roberts Mem. (1835) III. 240 No resident minister;..the church of course thins.
1828 Examiner 129/1 The band..is steadily thinning.
1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) iv. 25 ‘The streets have thinned,’ as Mr. Gills says, ‘very much.’
1862 F. W. Faber Hymns vii. 382 My world of friends thins round me fast.
1897 H. Drummond Ideal Life 101 The crowd thinned.
5. transitive. To make less thick, dense, or viscid; to dilute. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > constitution of matter > lack of density > make less dense [verb (transitive)]
thinc1000
laska1375
rarefya1398
subtilea1425
subtiliate1551
extenuate1559
assubtiliate1582
assubtile1589
attenuate1594
subtilize1597
thinnify1693
the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > action or process of dilution > dilute [verb (transitive)]
thinc1000
woke1377
watera1387
allayc1450
delay1543
dilute1691
lower1698
to water down1866
cut1930
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 194 Þæt ofstandene þicce slipige horh þu scealt..wyrman & þynnian.
a1340 R. Rolle Cant. in Psalter 497 Myn eghyn ere thynyd, that is..purgid of vile lustis..and made sutil.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 491/2 Thynnyn, or make thynne, as lycurys, tenuo.
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke iii. 182 This water..cutteth and thinneth grosse matters.
1767 H. Glasse Art of Cookery (new ed.) App. 347 Mix half a pound of best flour, and thin it with damask rose-water.
1880 J. Caird Introd. Philos. Relig. ii. 60 By thinning down the idea of God to an abstraction which would embrace under a common head the rudest fetishism and the spiritual theism of Christianity.
1890 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. (ed. 6) 76 The..liquid is..thinned down to proper fluidity.
6. intransitive. To become less dense or consistent; to grow fluid, tenuous, or rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > constitution of matter > lack of density > become less dense [verb (intransitive)]
rarefya1658
thin1834
fine1839
1834 M. Scott in Blackwood's Mag. 35 900 Gradually the figure, without changing its position, thinned, and anon..the stars were seen through it.
1884 S. Cox Miracles 63 The haze of difficulty which enshrouds them thins.
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† thinv.2
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To stretch out, extend. The existence of this in Middle English is doubtful: the Old English form would properly give Middle English þenne or þene; þinne is perhaps an error.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > extension in space > extend [verb (transitive)] > stretch out
stretchc900
astretchc1000
i-stretchec1000
thinc1000
to-tightc1200
reacha1300
spreada1382
extendc1386
to lay outa1400
streeka1400
outstretcha1425
rekea1425
stentc1430
outreach?1440
inch out1878
c1000 Ags. Ps. cxlii[i]. 6 Ic mine hande to þe holde þenede.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 22 Þænne þone swiðran earm swa he swiþast mæge.
a1300 E.E. Psalter cvii. 10 [cviii. 9] In Ydume sal i þinne [ Wyclif strecchen] mi scho.
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