Thin

a.	1.	Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.
	2.	Rare; not dense or thick; - applied to fluids or soft mixtures; as, thin blood; thin broth; thin air. In the day, when the air is more thin. - Bacon. Satan, bowing low His gray dissimulation, disappeared, Into thin air diffused. - Milton.
	3.	Not close; not crowded; not filling the space; not having the individuals of which the thing is composed in a close or compact state; hence, not abundant; as, the trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin. Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people. - Addison.
	4.	Not full or well grown; wanting in plumpness. Seven thin ears . . . blasted with the east wind. - Gen. xli. 6.
	5.	Not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt; as, a person becomes thin by disease.
	6.	Wanting in body or volume; small; feeble; not full. Thin, hollow sounds, and lamentable screams. - Dryden.
	7.	Slight; small; slender; flimsy; wanting substance or depth or force; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering; as, a thin disguise. My tale is done, for my wit is but thin. - Chaucer. Thin section See under Section.
adv.	1.	Not thickly or closely; in a seattered state; as, seed sown thin. Spain is thin sown of people. - Bacon.
v. t.	1.	To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective). [imp. & p. p. Thinned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Thinning.]
v. i.	1.	To grow or become thin; - used with some adverbs, as out, away, etc.; as, geological strata thin out, i. e., gradually diminish in thickness until they disappear.

Verb	1.	thin - lose thickness; become thin or thinner Antonyms: thicken, inspissate - become thick or thicker; "The sauce thickened"; "The egg yolk will inspissate"
	2.	thin - make thin or thinner; "Thin the solution" Antonyms: thicken, inspissate - make thick or thicker; "Thicken the sauce"; "inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch"
	3.	thin - lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon" Synonyms: dilute, thin out, reduce, cut
	4.	thin - take off weight Synonyms: lose weight, melt off, slim, slim down, slenderize, reduce
Adj.	1.	thin - 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" Antonyms: thick - not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions; "an inch thick"; "a thick board"; "a thick sandwich"; "spread a thick layer of butter"; "thick coating of dust"; "thick warm blankets"
	2.	thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare Synonyms: lean Antonyms: fat - having much flesh (especially fat); "he hadn't remembered how fat she was"
	3.	thin - very narrow; "a thin line across the page" Synonyms: slender
	4.	thin - having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot" Synonyms: slight, tenuous, flimsy
	5.	thin - not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse" Synonyms: sparse
	6.	thin - 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" Antonyms: thick - relatively dense in consistency; "thick cream"; "thick soup"; "thick smoke"; "thick fog"
	7.	thin - (of sound) lacking resonance or volume; "a thin feeble cry" Antonyms: full - (of sound) having marked depth and body; "full tones"; "a full voice"
	8.	thin - lacking spirit or sincere effort; "a thin smile"
Adv.	1.	thin - without viscosity; "the blood was flowing thin" Synonyms: thinly

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