thin
Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
Adjective 4 meanings
Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
“thin plate of metal; thin paper; thin board; thin covering”
Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
“thin wire; thin string”
Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.
“Water is thinner than honey.”
Noun 2 meanings
A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.
Any food produced or served in thin slices.
“chocolate mint thins”
Verb 4 meanings
To make thin or thinner.
To become thin or thinner.
“The crowds thinned after the procession had passed: there was nothing more to see.”
To dilute.
To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
Adverb 1 meaning
Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.
“seed sown thin”
Etymology
From Middle English thinne, thünne, thenne, from Old English þynne, from Proto-West Germanic *þunnī, from Proto-Germanic *þunnuz (“thin”) – compare *þanjaną (“to stretch, spread out”) – from Proto-Indo-European *ténh₂us (“thin”), from *ten- (“to stretch”).
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THIN at a glance
THIN has 4 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (T 1 + H 4 + I 1 + N 1) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,136 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with thin
All rhymes- WITHIN12
- CHIN9
- SHIN7
- DOLPHIN13
- DAUPHIN13
- URCHIN11
- COCHIN13
- CAPUCHIN17
- MORPHIN14
- NUTHIN9
- ENDORPHIN15
- LECITHIN13
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