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Thinner   /θˈɪnər/   Listen
Thinner

noun
1.
A diluting agent.  Synonyms: diluent, dilutant.


Thin

adjective
(compar. thinner; superl. thinnest)
1.
Of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section.  "A thin chiffon blouse" , "A thin book" , "A thin layer of paint"
2.
Lacking excess flesh.  Synonym: lean.  "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"
3.
Very narrow.  Synonym: slender.
4.
Not dense.  Synonym: sparse.  "Trees were sparse"
5.
Relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous.  "A thin soup" , "Skimmed milk is much thinner than whole milk" , "Thin oil"
6.
(of sound) lacking resonance or volume.
7.
Lacking spirit or sincere effort.
8.
Lacking substance or significance.  Synonyms: flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous.  "A tenuous argument" , "A thin plot" , "A fragile claim to fame"



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"Thinner" Quotes from Famous Books



... a timid, servile creature, rubbing his hands nervously, and suspecting mischief. He was a rat in trouble. He had thin brown hair, neatly brushed and plastered down, so as to make it look still thinner, and his face was the average narrow cunning face of the dishonest man-servant. It had an ounce of wile in it to a pound or two of servility. He seemed just the sort of rogue meanly to join in an underhand conspiracy, and then meanly to back out of it. ...
— Miss Cayley's Adventures • Grant Allen
... "until I saw you and Miriam play basketball this afternoon. I was crazy to play, too. But imagine how I'd look on the field. I couldn't run six yards without puffing. I'm going to try to get thinner, and perhaps some day I can ...
— Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower
... other for who can say how long—a year—a million years seems more probable—but still only an instant in the life of a star—they begin to draw apart, and the flaming column is stretched out, and ever thinner it grows, and the two stars at last separate. But now the gas will never fall back into the sun. Like some giant flaming cigar it reaches out into space and it will stay thus, for it has been set in rotation about the sun at such a speed as is needed to form an orbit. The giant mass ...
— The Black Star Passes • John W Campbell
... It was thinner than the face which Edith remembered, and it seemed to her as if it had been worn down by some illness. If so, it must have been the same cause which had imparted to those features the refinement and high bearing which were now visible there. There was the same broad brow ...
— The Living Link • James De Mille
... extremely delicate test as to the collective quantity of individually invisible particles in a liquid. Commencing with distilled water, for example, a thick slice of light is necessary to make the polarisation of its suspended particles sensible. A much thinner slice suffices for common water; while, with Bruecke's precipitated mastic, a slice too thin to produce any sensible effect with most other liquids, suffices to bring ...
— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall


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