| 单词 | to thin out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto thin out (off, away) 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. < as lemmas |
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