Thinning

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Thin \Thin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thinned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Thinning}.] [Cf. AS. ge[thorn]ynnian.]
     To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective).
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  thin
       adj 1: 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" [ant:
              {thick}]
       2: lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin";
          "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare [syn:
           {lean}] [ant: {fat}]
       3: very narrow; "a thin line across the page" [syn: {slender}]
       4: having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse";
          "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"
          [syn: {flimsy}, {slight}, {tenuous}]
       5: not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse" [syn: {sparse}]
       6: 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"
          [ant: {thick}]
       7: (of sound) lacking resonance or volume; "a thin feeble cry"
          [ant: {full}]
       8: lacking spirit or sincere effort; "a thin smile"
       adv : without viscosity; "the blood was flowing thin" [syn: {thinly}]
             [ant: {thickly}]
       v 1: lose thickness; become thin or thinner [ant: {thicken}]
       2: make thin or thinner; "Thin the solution" [ant: {thicken}]
       3: lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut
          bourbon" [syn: {dilute}, {thin out}, {reduce}, {cut}]
       4: take off weight [syn: {reduce}, {melt off}, {lose weight}, {slim},
           {slenderize}, {slim down}] [ant: {gain}]
       [also: {thinning}, {thinned}, {thinnest}, {thinner}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  thinning
       n : the act of diluting something; "the cutting of whiskey with
           water"; "the thinning of paint with turpentine" [syn: {cutting}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  thinning
       See {thin}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "thinning":
     Sanforizing, abatement, adulteration, atrophy, attenuation,
     attrition, blunting, consumption, contour plowing, cultivating,
     cultivation, culture, cutting, damping, deadening, debilitation,
     devitalization, diluent, dilution, dissolvent, dressing, drying,
     drying up, dulling, effemination, emaceration, emaciation,
     enervation, enfeeblement, etherealization, evisceration,
     exhaustion, extenuation, fallowing, fatigue, furrowing, harrowing,
     hoeing, inanition, languishment, listing, mitigation, parching,
     plowing, preshrinkage, pruning, rarefaction, reduction, relaxation,
     resolutive, resolvent, searing, shrinkage, shrinking, shriveling,
     slackening, softening, solvent, subtilization, tilling, wasting,
     weakening, weeding, withering, working