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 →

2) A thin person or animal has little fat on the body. tree →

3) A thin liquid flows easily like water. tree →

4) Thin hair or trees are not close together. tree →

5) Thin air is low in oxygen, as on high mountains. tree →

6) To thin something is to make it thinner or weaker. tree →

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 →
• The ice is too thin to walk on. tree →
• The paper is so thin you can see through it. tree →
• The thin cat needed more food. tree →
• Add milk to make the batter thin. tree →
• The keys vanished into thin air! tree →
• At the top of the mountain the air is thin. tree →
• You're skating on thin ice! tree →
• A Cat was growing very thin. tree →

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.
• Many bird bones are hollow, with thin crossing struts, and some are filled with air connected to the lungs.
• Stems have thin tubes that carry water up from the roots, and other tubes that carry sugar round the plant.
• Buttress roots spread out like walls around many rainforest trees and hold the tall tree up in thin soil.
• Hatchetfish have thin silver bodies, lights on their bellies, and eyes that point upwards to spot food falling from above.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «thin» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.