thumbnailn.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈthumb-nail.

1. The nail of the thumb. Often in allusive expressions; with quot. 1604 cf. supernaculum adv., n., and int.

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the world > life > the body > nail > [noun] > thumb nail

thumbnail1604

1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore i. v. 167 Cast. Pledge him... Flu. So: I ha done you right, on my thumbe naile.

1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. R5 Be bold my Booke, nor be abasht, or feare The cutting Thumb-naile, or the Brow severe.

1727 W. Somerville Sweet-scented Miser 27 On his thumb-nail it might be wrote ‘A penny sav'd's a penny got.’

1841–4 R. W. Emerson Nature in Wks. (1906) I. 228 The whole code..may be written on the thumbnail.

2. transferred. A drawing or sketch of the size of the thumbnail; hence figurative a brief word-picture. Chiefly attributive, as thumbnail sketch.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > other non-story prose > [noun] > short sketch or description

portraiture1650

word picture1835

cameo1851

thumbnail sketch1852

vignette1880

pastel1890

the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [noun] > outlining or sketching > sketch or brief description

adumbration1552

specimen1665

sketch1668

superficies1670

silhouette1819

outline sketch1835

thumbnail1900

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > a drawing > rough or preliminary

skiagraphy1594

model1613

shadow1656

sketch1668

cartoona1684

schizzo1686

ébauche1722

scratch1752

croquis1805

galloping sketch1834

pochade1846

abbozzo1849

scribbling1863

thumbnail sketch1900

under-drawing1934

bozzetto1935

pensiero1959

1852 E. E. Hale in Sartain's Mag. Jan. 39 (heading) The old and the new, face to face. A thumb-nail sketch.

1900 D. Woodside Life H. Calderwood ix. 208 Small ink-sketches of the thumb-nail order.

1901 Daily Chron. 3 Jan. 4 in Cassell's Encycl. Dict.: Suppl. Vol. (c1904) (at cited word) The truth of Dickens's vignettes and thumb-nails of humanity.

1909 Westm. Gaz. 4 Jan. 1/3 There are also ‘thumb-nails’ of some French figures, and..little pencil portraits of well-known faces.

1911 R. D. Saunders Col. Todhunter 125 A full-length ‘character-cartoon’ of the Colonel surrounded by ‘thumb-nail’ impressions of his face and bodily pose.

1968 R. Gittings John Keats xi. 148 He wrote a brilliant thumb-nail sketch of Oxford.

3. thumbnail scraper (Archaeology), a kind of microlith made for scraping.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > prehistoric tool > [noun] > types of

flintstonec1400

celt1748

fairy hammer1815

axe1851

flint-flake1851

stone-axe1864

flake-knife1865

scraper1865

thumb-flint1865

tool-stone1865

saddle quern1867

fabricator1872

grattoir1872

hammer-stone1872

tribrach1873

flake1875

hand-axe1878

pick1888

turtle-back1890

racloir1892

eolith1895

pebble chopper1895

palaeotalith1897

tranchet1899

point1901

pygmy flint1907

microlith1908

Gravette1911

keeled scraper1911

lissoir1911

coup de poing1912

end-scraper1915

burin1916

rostro-carinate1919

tortoise core1919

blade1921

axe-adze1925

petit tranchet1926

tournette1927

pebble tool1931

raclette1932

biface1934

cleaver1935

thumbnail scraper1937

microblade1959

linguate1966

1937 D. A. E. Garrod & D. M. A. Bate Stone Age Mt. Carmel I. i. iii. 31 Thumb-nail scraper..a very well-made minute round scraper.

1977 G. Clark World Prehist. (ed. 3) v. 226 Late Stone Age assemblages including..microliths and thumb-nail scrapers, which in this part of Africa [sc. Nigeria] were usually made of quartz.

Draft additions March 2006

A miniaturized version of a document or part of a document; (Computing) a small version of a digital image, frequently acting as a hyperlink to a larger version.

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1933 R. T. Porte Dict. Printing Terms 101/1 Thumb-nail layout, a sketch layout in miniature.

1964 A. Turnbull Graphics of Communication 176 Thumbnails have three advantages.

1989 InfoWorld 16 Jan. 65/1 There are 10 options for audience handouts and speaker's notes. One of these prints thumbnails of 15 bullet charts on a page.

2002 Bodleian Libr. Rec. XVII. 285 The images will first be presented as thumbnails, with links to medium-size JPEG-compressed image files.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

thumbnailv.

Forms: Also thumb-nail.

Etymology: < thumbnail n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈthumb-nail.

transitive. To describe concisely by means of a thumbnail sketch. Also intransitive.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > [verb (intransitive)] > describe concisely with thumb-nail sketch

thumbnail1932

society > communication > writing > [verb (transitive)] > describe in writing

writeOE

pena1527

pursue1558

thumbnail1932

1932 ‘T. E. Shaw’ Odyssey of Homer f. 4 He thumb-nailed well; and afterwards lost heart—Nausicaa, for instance, enters dramatically and shapes, for a few lines, like a woman—then she fades, unused.

1942 Sphere 15 Aug. 194/4 Among undergraduates he had, of course, a nickname—we called him ‘Blinks’, which adequately thumb-nailed the outer man.

1959 Time 10 Aug. 28/2 Thus did Andrew Berding..thumbnail last week the immobility and futility of the Big Four sessions at Geneva.

1983 Times 13 June 5/5 The presence of Miss Ride—or 5 ft 5 in, 115 lb, blue-eyed, brunette, cool-hand Sally, as the papers thumbnail her—has created additional interest.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	thumbnail
释义	thumbnailn. Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈthumb-nail. 1. The nail of the thumb. Often in allusive expressions; with quot. 1604 cf. supernaculum adv., n., and int. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > nail > [noun] > thumb nail thumbnail1604 1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore i. v. 167 Cast. Pledge him... Flu. So: I ha done you right, on my thumbe naile. 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. R5 Be bold my Booke, nor be abasht, or feare The cutting Thumb-naile, or the Brow severe. 1727 W. Somerville Sweet-scented Miser 27 On his thumb-nail it might be wrote ‘A penny sav'd's a penny got.’ 1841–4 R. W. Emerson Nature in Wks. (1906) I. 228 The whole code..may be written on the thumbnail. 2. transferred. A drawing or sketch of the size of the thumbnail; hence figurative a brief word-picture. Chiefly attributive, as thumbnail sketch. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > other non-story prose > [noun] > short sketch or description portraiture1650 word picture1835 cameo1851 thumbnail sketch1852 vignette1880 pastel1890 the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [noun] > outlining or sketching > sketch or brief description adumbration1552 specimen1665 sketch1668 superficies1670 silhouette1819 outline sketch1835 thumbnail1900 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > a drawing > rough or preliminary skiagraphy1594 model1613 shadow1656 sketch1668 cartoona1684 schizzo1686 ébauche1722 scratch1752 croquis1805 galloping sketch1834 pochade1846 abbozzo1849 scribbling1863 thumbnail sketch1900 under-drawing1934 bozzetto1935 pensiero1959 1852 E. E. Hale in Sartain's Mag. Jan. 39 (heading) The old and the new, face to face. A thumb-nail sketch. 1900 D. Woodside Life H. Calderwood ix. 208 Small ink-sketches of the thumb-nail order. 1901 Daily Chron. 3 Jan. 4 in Cassell's Encycl. Dict.: Suppl. Vol. (c1904) (at cited word) The truth of Dickens's vignettes and thumb-nails of humanity. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 4 Jan. 1/3 There are also ‘thumb-nails’ of some French figures, and..little pencil portraits of well-known faces. 1911 R. D. Saunders Col. Todhunter 125 A full-length ‘character-cartoon’ of the Colonel surrounded by ‘thumb-nail’ impressions of his face and bodily pose. 1968 R. Gittings John Keats xi. 148 He wrote a brilliant thumb-nail sketch of Oxford. 3. thumbnail scraper (Archaeology), a kind of microlith made for scraping. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > prehistoric tool > [noun] > types of flintstonec1400 celt1748 fairy hammer1815 axe1851 flint-flake1851 stone-axe1864 flake-knife1865 scraper1865 thumb-flint1865 tool-stone1865 saddle quern1867 fabricator1872 grattoir1872 hammer-stone1872 tribrach1873 flake1875 hand-axe1878 pick1888 turtle-back1890 racloir1892 eolith1895 pebble chopper1895 palaeotalith1897 tranchet1899 point1901 pygmy flint1907 microlith1908 Gravette1911 keeled scraper1911 lissoir1911 coup de poing1912 end-scraper1915 burin1916 rostro-carinate1919 tortoise core1919 blade1921 axe-adze1925 petit tranchet1926 tournette1927 pebble tool1931 raclette1932 biface1934 cleaver1935 thumbnail scraper1937 microblade1959 linguate1966 1937 D. A. E. Garrod & D. M. A. Bate Stone Age Mt. Carmel I. i. iii. 31 Thumb-nail scraper..a very well-made minute round scraper. 1977 G. Clark World Prehist. (ed. 3) v. 226 Late Stone Age assemblages including..microliths and thumb-nail scrapers, which in this part of Africa [sc. Nigeria] were usually made of quartz. Draft additions March 2006 A miniaturized version of a document or part of a document; (Computing) a small version of a digital image, frequently acting as a hyperlink to a larger version. ΚΠ 1933 R. T. Porte Dict. Printing Terms 101/1 Thumb-nail layout, a sketch layout in miniature. 1964 A. Turnbull Graphics of Communication 176 Thumbnails have three advantages. 1989 InfoWorld 16 Jan. 65/1 There are 10 options for audience handouts and speaker's notes. One of these prints thumbnails of 15 bullet charts on a page. 2002 Bodleian Libr. Rec. XVII. 285 The images will first be presented as thumbnails, with links to medium-size JPEG-compressed image files. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2021). thumbnailv. Forms: Also thumb-nail. Etymology: < thumbnail n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈthumb-nail. transitive. To describe concisely by means of a thumbnail sketch. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > [verb (intransitive)] > describe concisely with thumb-nail sketch thumbnail1932 society > communication > writing > [verb (transitive)] > describe in writing writeOE pena1527 pursue1558 thumbnail1932 1932 ‘T. E. Shaw’ Odyssey of Homer f. 4 He thumb-nailed well; and afterwards lost heart—Nausicaa, for instance, enters dramatically and shapes, for a few lines, like a woman—then she fades, unused. 1942 Sphere 15 Aug. 194/4 Among undergraduates he had, of course, a nickname—we called him ‘Blinks’, which adequately thumb-nailed the outer man. 1959 Time 10 Aug. 28/2 Thus did Andrew Berding..thumbnail last week the immobility and futility of the Big Four sessions at Geneva. 1983 Times 13 June 5/5 The presence of Miss Ride—or 5 ft 5 in, 115 lb, blue-eyed, brunette, cool-hand Sally, as the papers thumbnail her—has created additional interest. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1604v.1932
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