(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.
Ticken
Definition:
(n.) See Ticking.
Example Sentences:
(1) The placement of a polyethylene cuff around the abdominal aorta of 20 male rabbits 2,5 to 3 months old induce an adventitial reaction characterized by edema (7th day), fibroblastic proliferation (7th - 15th day), fibrosis and sclerosis (2nd - 3rd month), changes in the media including cytoenzymatic activation (1st - 3rd week), signs of hypoxia, degenerative and productive processes leading to intimal tickening.
(2) Biopsy of a sensory nerve was performed in 2 cases and showed, in one, typical images of myelinic degeneration at various stages, corresponding to the formation of tomacular tickenings.
(3) At operation, the median nerve is found constricted under tickened transverse carpal ligament.
(4) Anatomic alterations either in the case of exudative or proliferative damages improved but not up to complete healing: mesangial tickening and local proliferation has been observed.
(5) At operation, the nerve is very constricted with a tickened transverse carpal ligament; no other anomaly is noted.
(6) Another dictionary (Littré) suggest the german word "ticken", which means "to touch slightly", the galic word tacaid (sudden pain) and the german ziki (young goat), a word which could have lead to ticchio as capra, goat in italian, gave capricio.
(7) Magnetic Resonance (MR) shows an involvement of the white matter, which appears diffusely reduced and abnormal, together with a peculiar tickening of the grey matter.