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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   thin

   • IPA[THin]

   美式

   • adj.
     having opposite surfaces or sides close together; of little thickness or depth；(of a garment or other knitted or woven item) made of light material for coolness or elegance
   • adv.
     with little thickness or depth
   • v.
     make or become less dense, crowded, or numerous；remove some plants from (a row or area) to allow the others more room to grow

   • verb: thin, 3rd person present: thins, gerund or present participle: thinning, past tense: thinned, past participle: thinned

2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   adj.

   形容詞

   • 1. having opposite surfaces or sides close together; of little thickness or depth thin slices of bread 同義詞 narrow, fine, pencil-thin, threadlike, attenuated, ... 更多rareattenuate, wafer-thin, paper-thin, papery反義詞 thick, broad, thick
   • ▪ (of a garment or other knitted or woven item) made of light material for coolness or elegance his thin jacket 同義詞 lightweight, light, fine, delicate, floaty, ... 更多flimsy, diaphanous, gossamer, insubstantial, sheer, gauzy, gauze-like, filmy, chiffony, transparent, see-through, translucent反義詞 heavy, thick
   • ▪ (of a garment) having had a considerable amount of fabric worn away our clothing was getting thin
   • ▪ (of script or type) consisting of narrow lines tall, thin lettering 同義詞 narrow, fine, pencil-thin, threadlike, attenuated, ... 更多rareattenuate反義詞 thick, broad
   • 2. (of a person) having little, or too little, flesh or fat on their body she was painfully thin 同義詞 slim, lean, slender, rangy, willowy, ... 更多svelte, sylphlike, spare, slight, skinny, underweight, scrawny, scraggly, bony, angular, rawboned, hollow-cheeked, gaunt, as thin as a rake, as thin as a reed, like a matchstick, sticklike, size-zero, skin-and-bones, emaciated, skeletal, cadaverous, like a skeleton, wasted, pinched, undernourished, underfed, lanky, spindly, stringy, gangly, gangling, reedy, weedy, informallooking like a bag of bones, anorexic, anorectic, datedspindle-shanked, raregracile, starveling, macilent反義詞 fat, plump, overweight
   • 3. having few parts or members relative to the area covered or filled; sparse a depressingly thin crowd his hair was going thin 同義詞 sparse, scanty, wispy, thinning, meager, ... 更多paltry, poor, inadequate, insufficient, sparse, scanty, scattered反義詞 abundant, thick
   • ▪ not dense the thin cold air of the mountains 同義詞 rarefied
   • ▪ denoting a route on which the holds are small or scarce.
   • 4. containing much liquid and not much solid substance thin soup 同義詞 watery, watered down, weak, dilute, diluted, ... 更多thinned down, runny, sloppy, slap反義詞 thick
   • 5. too weak to justify a result or effect; inadequate the evidence is rather thin 同義詞 insubstantial, flimsy, slight, feeble, lame, ... 更多poor, weak, shallow, tenuous, threadbare, inadequate, insufficient, unconvincing, unbelievable, implausible反義詞 meaty, convincing
   • ▪ (of a sound) faint and high-pitched a thin, reedy little voice 同義詞 weak, faint, feeble, small, soft, ... 更多low, reedy, high-pitched反義詞 strong, loud
   • ▪ (of a smile) weak and forced.

   adv.

   副詞

   • 1. with little thickness or depth cut it as thin as possible thin-sliced ham

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. make or become less dense, crowded, or numerous the remorseless fire of archers thinned their ranks the trees began to thin out 同義詞 become less dense/numerous, decrease, diminish, dwindle, lessen, ... 更多become less in number, disperse, dissipate, scatter, prune, cut back, trim, technicalsingle
   • ▪ remove some plants from (a row or area) to allow the others more room to grow thin out overwintered rows of peas
   • ▪ make or become weaker or more watery if the soup is too thick, add a little water to thin it down the blood thins 同義詞 dilute, water down, weaken
   • 2. make or become smaller in width or thickness their effect in thinning the ozone layer is probably slowing the global warming trend the trees have thinned and diminished in size
   • 3. hit (a ball) above its center.

   片語

   • thin air
   • the thin blue line
   • thin on top