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THIN

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thin I. adjectiv

1. (despre persoane) slab, slăbănog, uscăţiv;

(as) thin as a lath / rake / rail / whipping-post slab ca un ţâr / ogar;

to grow / to become thinner a slăbi.

2. (despre lucruri) subţire; slab; (despre lichide) slab; diluat, apătos; (despre aer) rarefiat; (despre voce) subţire, slabă; (despre grâne, păr, populaţie etc.) rar, rărit; puţin numeros; (despre o scuză, un pretext) slab, şubred;

thin paper hârtie subţire;

thin face faţă slabă;

(fam.) that is too thin e cusut cu aţă albă.

◊ to have a thin time of it a) a petrece prost; a se plictisi; b) a îndura multe mizerii, a păţi multe.

thin II. adverb

subţire.

thin III. verb A. tranzitiv

1. (şi to thin down) a subţia; a dilua (un lichid).

2. a rări (părul, straturi, pomi etc.).

thin III. verb B. intranzitiv

1. (despre persoane) a slăbi, a se subţia.

2. (despre lichide) a se dilua.

3. (şi to thin away) (despre mulţime) a se rări, a se împrăştia; (despre un loc) a se goli.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I don't know what you chaps think, but it strikes me that we are on mighty thin ice all this time.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She had black hair and eager black eyes, and was thin, and had a scar upon her lip.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

By her side stood a tall, thin man, clad in black.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Who would have thought that she could be so thin and small?

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

I do not think that I have ever seen so thin a man.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"You still look very pale—and so thin! Poor child!—poor girl!"

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

There was no manuscript in that thin envelope, therefore it was an acceptance.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

The woman stood with her hand buried in her bosom, and the same deadly smile on her thin lips.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Other types include squamous cell carcinoma (cancer that begins in thin, flat cells) and adenocarcinoma (cancer that begins in cells that make and release mucus and other fluids).

(Bladder Cancer, NCI Dictionary)

But she could not find enough to satisfy her, for the cheeks were very thin, and the hands seemed too feeble to hold even the rosy little shells they had been collecting.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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