Definitions for "Thin"
Not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt; as, a person becomes thin by disease.
Wanting in body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
Slight; small; slender; flimsy; wanting substance or depth or force; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering; as, a thin disguise.
Not close; not crowded; not filling the space; not having the individuals of which the thing is composed in a close or compact state; hence, not abundant; as, the trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin.
To remove the weakest seedlings which prevents crowding of plants.
Fundamentals are weak relative to harmonics. Note that the fundamental frequencies of many instruments are not very low. For example, violin fundamentals are around 200 to 1,000 Hz. So if the 300 Hz area is weak, the violin may sound thin - even if the violin mic's response goes down to 40 Hz.
When the ball is struck above the center.
(also skull) To hit the ball above its equator.
(aka: "skinny") when the ball is contacted with the leading edge instead of the face of the club producing a low trajectory shot with less than the usual amount of spin. Example: "He hit a good drive, but then hit his wedge thin and over the green."
A thinning of the paper on the back of a stamp. Often the result of a hinge that has been carelessly removed, or from a stamp that is improperly removed from an envelope.
an area in which part of the back of a postage stamp has been torn away by clumsy removal from a cover or album page
An area where a layer of a stamp’s paper has been removed, usually on the back.
(slang) (of a contract) bid on not quite adequate values;(slang) (of a bid) made on slightly less than the normally required strength.
As applied to a market, means that bids and offerings are scarce and the market is subject to wide fluctuations and small-sized executions.
As applied to a market, means that bids and offerings are scarce and the market is subject to wide fluctuations due to poor liquidity.
Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.
Rare; not dense or thick; -- applied to fluids or soft mixtures; as, thin blood; thin broth; thin air.
To grow or become thin; -- used with some adverbs, as out, away, etc.; as, geological strata thin out, i. e., gradually diminish in thickness until they disappear.
Thin coax (BNC)
Not thickly or closely; in a seattered state; as, seed sown thin.
Reduce the number of shoots to allow freer air circulation and increase the light for foliage an overcrowded branch system
of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section; "thin wire"; "a thin chiffon blouse"; "a thin book"; "a thin layer of paint"
Film a very thin layer of material formed on a substrate.
As applied to a photographic image, having low density.
relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous; "air is thin at high altitudes"; "a thin soup"; "skimmed milk is much thinner than whole milk"; "thin oil"
As used in aviation weather observations, descriptive of a sky cover that is predominantly transparent. According to the summation principle, at any level, if the ratio of the transparent sky cover to the total sky cover (opaque plus transparent) is one-half or more, then the cloud layer at that level must be classified as "thin." It is denoted by the symbol "−" preceding the appropriate sky cover symbol.
Opposite of "full-bodied" (see also light, meager).
A fine stroke, sometimes called a hairline.
Not full or well grown; wanting in plumpness.
To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective).
A unit of space in typesetting which is approximately half an en in width.
without viscosity; "the blood was flowing thin"
See "skulling".
Used to describe climbing on very small holds.
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make thin or thinner; "Thin the solution"
very narrow; "a thin line across the page"
As in "drawing thin." To be drawing to a very few outs, perhaps only one or two.
take off weight