thins
US: /ˈθɪnz/
UK: /θˈɪnz/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
thin /θin/- tính từ
- mỏng, mảnh
- a thin sheet of paper: tờ giấy mỏng
- a thin piece of string: sợi dây mảnh
- gầy gò, mảnh dẻ, mảnh khảnh
- as thin as a lath: gầy như cái que
- loãng
- thin porridge: cháo loãng
- thin wine: rượu nhẹ, rượu pha loãng
- thin air: không khí loãng
- thưa, thưa thớt, lơ thơ
- thin hair: tóc thưa
- thin audience: thính giả thưa thớt
- nhỏ, nhỏ hẹp, yếu ớt
- a thin voice: giọng nói nhỏ nhẹ
- mong manh; nghèo nàn
- a thin excuse: một lý do cáo lỗi mong manh không vững
- a thin story: một câu chuyện nghèo nàn
- (từ lóng) khó chịu, buồn chán
- to have a thin time: buồn bực, chán
- mỏng, mảnh
- ngoại động từ
- làm cho mỏng, làm cho mảnh
- làm gầy đi, làm gầy bớt
- làm loãng, pha loãng
- làm thưa, làm giảm bớt, tỉa bớt
- to thin out the leaves: tỉa bớt lá
- nội động từ
- mỏng ra, mảnh đi
- gầy đi
- loãng ra
- thưa bớt đi, thưa thớt
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 slim, slender, lean, spare, slight, lanky, spindly, skinny, thin as a rail or reed or rake, wispy, twiggy, skeletal, gaunt, gangling, bony, emaciated, cadaverous, meagre, scrawny, all skin and bones, scraggy, undernourished, underfed, underweight, undersized, puny, sparse, hollow-cheeked, (half-)starved, pinched, withered, shrunken, shrivelled (up):
Douglas is quite thin as a result of his illness.
2 sparse, unsubstantial, poor, scant, insufficient, inadequate, slight, worthless, unimportant, deficient, skimpy, unplentiful, paltry, piddling:
This year's harvest has been very thin.
3 attenuated, threadlike, stringlike, pencil-thin, fine; narrow:
Draw a thin line between the columns. Please slice the bread thin.
4 flimsy, weak, feeble, slight, unsubstantial, insubstantial, fragile, frail, poor, lame; unbelievable, unconvincing:
Harry gave some thin excuse for being late.
5 airy, filmy, diaphanous, gossamer, sheer, light, delicate, chiffon, silky, silken, gauzy, translucent, see-through, transparent:
She had nothing but a thin negligee to protect her from the cold.
6 watery, watered down, dilute(d), weak, unsatisfying:
My dinner, as usual, consisted of thin gruel and a dry crust.
7 thin on the ground. rare, uncommon, scarce, few (and far between), unusual, hard to come by or find, scant, scanty:
Good managers are thin on the ground.
v.
8 Often, thin down. draw out, attenuate, reduce, trim, cut down, prune; sharpen:
At one end, thin the dowel to a point.
9 Often, thin down or out. dilute, water (down), decrease, reduce, diminish:
They always thin the wine with some water. The crowd thinned out after a while.
Concise dictionary
thinned|thinning|thinner|thinnest|thinsθɪnverb
+lose thickness; become thin or thinner
+make thin or thinner
+lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
+take off weight
adj.
+of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section
+lacking excess flesh
+very narrow
+having little substance or significance
+not dense
+relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous
+(of sound) lacking resonance or volume
+lacking spirit or sincere effort
adv.
+without viscosity
