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# thumbnail

«thumbnail» in Mova's school dictionary: **the nail on your thumb** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a thumbnail, thumbnails); adjective (thumbnail)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A thumbnail is the nail on your thumb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thumbnail/#m1)

2) A thumbnail is a small picture on a screen that stands for a bigger picture or video; you click it to see the full one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thumbnail/#m2)

3) A thumbnail sketch or description is very short and gives only the main points. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thumbnail/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Computers and online safety: video sites show thumbnails, and some are made to look exciting to trick you into clicking («clickbait»). Art: artists do thumbnail sketches to plan a picture. Writing: «a thumbnail biography» gives just the key facts.

### examples

- I broke my thumbnail on the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thumbnail/#x1)
- Click the thumbnail to see the full photo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thumbnail/#x2)
- The video's thumbnail looked exciting, but it was clickbait. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thumbnail/#x3)
- The artist drew quick thumbnail sketches first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thumbnail/#x4)
- Give a thumbnail description of the main character. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thumbnail/#x5)
- The thumbnails are too small to see clearly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thumbnail/#x6)

### note

Countable, one word. The b in «thumb» is silent: said «THUM-nail». Thumbnails can be misleading — the real video may be different.

### Trees and pragmatics

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