Thin

(verb.) make thin or thinner; 'Thin the solution'.

(verb.) lose thickness; become thin or thinner.

(adj.) lacking excess flesh; 'you can't be too rich or too thin'; 'Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look'-Shakespeare .

(adj.) (of sound) lacking resonance or volume; 'a thin feeble cry' .

(adj.) lacking spirit or sincere effort; 'a thin smile' .

(adj.) 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' .

(adj.) 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' .

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• A motion-picture film is a thin ribbon of transparent pyroxylin plastic or nitrocellulose, which is highly inflammable. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I thought her, then, still more colourless and thin than when I had seen her last; the flashing eyes still brighter, and the scar still plainer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Robert Jordan heard the stream, far down in the rocks, and he saw a faint, thin smoke that rose from the sentry box. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Knife-edge girdle diamonds are impractical owing to the liability of chipping the thin edge in setting or by blows while being worn. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The daguerreotype was made on a thin sheet of copper, silver plated on one side, polished to a high degree of brilliancy, and made sensitive by exposing it to the fumes of iodine. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It struck me that he was looking even paler and thinner than usual. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• You find it difficult enough yourself, and she is several skins thinner than you are. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• She was thinner, her eyes were perhaps hotter, more disintegrated. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• They are usually wrapped in straw, you know, and are thinner for their length than any other brand. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• I lingered thus for about two months, without any visible change in my health or spirits, except that I grew weaker and thinner every day. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• And then I said Bleak House was thinning fast; and so it was, my dear. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Then he was looking through the thinning trees and he saw the oiled dark of the road below and beyond it the green slope of the hillside. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Midnight was long past; the concert was over, the crowds were thinning. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Bleak House is thinning fast. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• A few seconds later a roar like thunder burst upon our ears, and as the smoke thinned away there was no sign left of the _Gloria Scott_. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• As sold it is invariably too thick for this purpose, and should be thinned by adding several drops of balsam of copaiba to as much ink as may be taken on a salt spoon. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• No truly, though thinned, the race of man would continue, and the great plague would, in after years, become matter of history and wonder. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• As for paper, there is everything in white and colored, from thinnest tissue up to the heaviest asbestos, even a few newspapers being always on hand. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Without noticing either of us, Mr. Luker slowly made his way to the door--now in the thickest, now in the thinnest part of the crowd. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Robert Jordan said and the very thinnest edge of the skin in front of his face smiled. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.

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