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# thin

«thin» in Mova's school dictionary: **having a small distance between its two sides: thin paper** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (thin, thinner, thinnest); verb (thin, thins, thinned, thinning)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Thin means having a small distance between its two sides: thin paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thin/#m1)

2) A thin person or animal has little fat on the body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thin/#m2)

3) A thin liquid flows easily like water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thin/#m3)

4) Thin hair or trees are not close together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thin/#m4)

5) Thin air is low in oxygen, as on high mountains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thin/#m5)

6) To thin something is to make it thinner or weaker. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thin/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

In safety, thin ice can break — stay off frozen ponds unless an adult says it is safe. In science, air is thin high up, so climbers breathe hard. In cooking, add water to thin a sauce. Phrases: «vanish into thin air» (disappear completely), «through thick and thin», «thin on the ground» (few), «skating on thin ice» (taking a risk).

### examples

- Cut the bread into thin slices. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thin/#x1)
- The ice is too thin to walk on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thin/#x2)
- The paper is so thin you can see through it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thin/#x3)
- The thin cat needed more food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thin/#x4)
- Add milk to make the batter thin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thin/#x5)
- The keys vanished into thin air! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thin/#x6)
- At the top of the mountain the air is thin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thin/#x7)
- You're skating on thin ice! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thin/#x8)
- A Cat was growing very thin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thin/#x9)

### note

Double n: thinner, thinnest, thinned. Opposite: thick or fat. «Thin» is polite for people; «skinny» is less polite; «slim» is a compliment.

### In the corpora

- [Snap a chicken bone from Sunday dinner and it is hollow, with thin struts inside like a bridge, light but strong.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/2/)
- [Many bird bones are hollow, with thin crossing struts, and some are filled with air connected to the lungs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/6/)
- [Stems have thin tubes that carry water up from the roots, and other tubes that carry sugar round the plant.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/57-roots-stems-and-leaves/7/)
- [Buttress roots spread out like walls around many rainforest trees and hold the tall tree up in thin soil.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/157-the-amazon-forest-floor/14/)
- [Hatchetfish have thin silver bodies, lights on their bellies, and eyes that point upwards to spot food falling from above.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/175-the-twilight-zone-barreleyes-lanternfish-and-the-biggest-daily-journey-on-earth/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «thin» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thin/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.