What's the difference between meager and thin?

Meager


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Meagre
  • (v. t.) Alt. of Meagre

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Various medical treatments had been tried with meager results.
  • (2) Because there is a growing interest in remarriage and the new types of families this social phenomenon creates, we became convinced that the meager number of articles and books in this area would be of interest to others.
  • (3) By 14 days, the damage to the eye in the my embryos can be quite extensive, and the deposition of glycosaminoglycans was very meager in this situation.
  • (4) The crisis is often mitigated by the development of collateral circulation, which is nevertheless of rather meager quality, such that the patients are very vulnerable to subsequent slight changes in cardiac output.
  • (5) This is the paradox that President Obama is facing this fall, as he appears to turn his back on a number of crucial and urgent domestic initiatives in order to spend all of his meager political capital on striking Syria.
  • (6) The existing body of knowledge concerning pharmacological issues in the Hispanic and Native American ethnic groups, however, is both meager and confusing.
  • (7) For example, the Pacers lost 107-97 , at home on Tuesday, in a game where their starting center Roy Hibbert's disappearing act reached nearly-comical levels as he racked up 0 points, 0 rebounds, 1 meager assist and four personal fouls in 12 minutes of playing time.
  • (8) While substrata from adult CNS, which support meager regeneration in vivo (adult rat spinal cord) support little fiber growth in culture.
  • (9) The humoral antibody response to S. typhi O, H, Vi, and lysate antigens in serum and intestinal fluid was meager.
  • (10) Microscopic sections of the failed grafts demonstrated meager tissue survival but no evidence of rejection by cellular infiltration.
  • (11) In nearly all other types of isolated thymic deficiency or combined immunodeficiency there has been only transient or meager restitution and more often than not complete failure.
  • (12) However, the data suggesting changes in androgen levels or androgen uptake with exercise are so meager and contradictory that no complete answer to any of these problems can yet be offered.
  • (13) Reliable information on embryonic and fetal development of the human oro-facial system is meager.
  • (14) The pathogenesis of these changes is unclear, the evidence for an immune complex mechanism meager, and the suggestion that the disease is mediated by a humoral mechanism remains to be explored.
  • (15) In an effort to add to the meager data on violence in the black community, the authors compiled the results of a victimization screening form obtained from a black outpatient psychiatric population.
  • (16) Using a hydroxylapatite exchange method for ER, little or no nuclear ER (ERN) could be detected, but with the EIA both cytosolic (ERC) and ERN were detected in almost all specimens, although in meager concentrations.
  • (17) Meager information exists regarding the morbidity of cancer surgery in obese patients, and it is generally assumed that surgery in the obese patient is attended with increased complications over those found in nonobese patients.
  • (18) Useful health statistics about the bulk of the population are almost totally lacking, and medical facilities left by the Portuguese are meager and concentrated in the largest towns and cities, with no provision at all for the majority of the population.
  • (19) There’s Breitbart, the “alt-right” Pepe brigade on Twitter and presumably some within the thinning ranks of his already meager executive branch.
  • (20) Sera from patients with LTh E. coli infection showed a prominent response with LTh, an intermediate response with LTp, and a meager response with CT. Of 47 persons with clinical LTh-producing E. coli (herein shortened to LTh E. coli) infections, significant rises in antitoxin were detected against LTh in 36 (77%), against LTp in 30 (64%), and against CT in only 13 (28%) patients; seroconversions also occurred in 11 of 14 (79%) patients with subclinical LTh E. coli infections.

Thin


Definition:

  • (superl.) 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.
  • (superl.) Rare; not dense or thick; -- applied to fluids or soft mixtures; as, thin blood; thin broth; thin air.
  • (superl.) 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.
  • (superl.) Not full or well grown; wanting in plumpness.
  • (superl.) Not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt; as, a person becomes thin by disease.
  • (superl.) Wanting in body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
  • (superl.) Slight; small; slender; flimsy; wanting substance or depth or force; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering; as, a thin disguise.
  • (adv.) Not thickly or closely; in a seattered state; as, seed sown thin.
  • (v. t.) To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective).
  • (v. i.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They are going to all destinations.” Supplies are running thin and aftershocks have strained nerves in the city.
  • (2) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
  • (3) Pitlike surface structures seen in negatively stained whole cells and thin sections were correlated with periodically spaced perforations of the rigid sacculus.
  • (4) Thin films (OD approximately 0.7) of glucose-embedded membranes, prepared as a control, showed virtually 100% conversion to the M state, and stacks of such thin film specimens gave very similar x-ray diffraction patterns in the bR568 and the M412 state in most experiments.
  • (5) Dose distributions were evaluated under thin sheet lead used as surface bolus for 4- and 10-MV photons and 6- and 9-MeV electrons using a parallel-plate ion chamber and film.
  • (6) Separation of PL by thin-layer chromatography revealed a prevalence of phosphatidylcholine followed by phosphatidylethanolamine.
  • (7) Thin layers of carbon (20 microns) and vacuoles (30 microns) suggested a large temperature gradient along the tissue ablation front.
  • (8) The ruling centre-right coalition government of Angela Merkel was dealt a blow by voters in a critical regional election on Sunday after the centre-left opposition secured a wafer-thin victory, setting the scene for a tension-filled national election in the autumn when everything will be up for grabs.
  • (9) When [14C]methyl-labelled N,N-dimethylformamide was injected and urine samples investigated by radio thin layer chromatography, the major area of radioactivity corresponded to the Rf of N-(hydroxymethyl)-N-methylformamide.
  • (10) Three cases of gastroduodenal perforation and one case of ulceration and extreme thinning of the gastric wall occurred in preterm babies treated with dexamethasone for bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
  • (11) Take-out: Apple can still innovate and Apple can still generate irrational lust out of thin air.
  • (12) The triglycerides are isolated by means of thin-layer chromatography.
  • (13) The OPL first appears as a thin, discontinuous break in the cytoblast layer that is frequently interrupted by the profiles of migrating neuro- and glioblasts.
  • (14) It's bad enough that they're so thin,” said Kilbourne.
  • (15) A specific vitamin A-dependent fluorophore was isolated from these retinas using thin-layer chromatography (TLC).
  • (16) Thinning of the dermis and the arrangement of collagen in parallel bundles appear to be constant findings.
  • (17) Thin-layer chromatogram with immunostaining revealed that serum IgG from this patient reacted with GM1, GD1a, GD1b, but did not react with GM2 and GT1b.
  • (18) A CT of the chest revealed typical thin-walled cysts of lymphangioleiomyomatosis.
  • (19) Homogenates of mucosa and muscle layer were incubated with (14C)-labelled arachidonic acid, and prostaglandin formation was determined using thin-layer chromatography.
  • (20) Draining of thin films has thus a dehydrating effect as well as a sorting and ordering effect.