thin
Definitions
General English
- adjective not fat
- adjective not thick
- adjective which flows easily, often because of containing too much water
Agriculture
- verb to remove a number of small plants from a crop, so allowing the remaining plants to grow more strongly
Aviation
- adjective of small extent between two surfaces
Cars & Driving
- verb to add thinners to a paint in order to adjust the viscosity
Media Studies
- adjective referring to a photographic negative that lacks density or contrast
Medical
- adjective referring to blood which is watery
Wine
Origin & History of “thin”
Thin denotes etymologically ‘stretched’. It goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base *ten- ‘stretch’, which also produced Latin tenuis ‘thin’ (source of English tenuous) and Latin tendere ‘stretch’ (source of English tend, tense, etc). from this was descended prehistoric Germanic *thunnuz, which has evolved into German dünn, Dutch dun, Swedish tunn, Danish tynd, and English thin.
