Usually means: Narrow in width; not thick.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. thin: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. -thin, thin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. thin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. thin: Collins English Dictionary
  5. thin: Vocabulary.com
  6. Thin, thin: Wordnik
  7. thin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. thin, thin': Wiktionary
  9. thin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. thin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. thin: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. thin: Dictionary.com
  13. thin: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. thin: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. THIN (film), Thin (disambiguation), Thin (film), Thin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Thin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. thin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. thin: Rhymezone
  19. thin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. thin: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. thin: Free Dictionary
  22. thin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. thin: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  3. thin-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  4. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thin: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thin: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. thin: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THIN: Acronym Finder
  2. Tea Terms (No longer online)
  3. thin: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. thin: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. thin: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thin, thin, thin: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Thin: Poker Terms
  3. thin: Golfer's Dictionary
  4. Thin: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)
  4. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  5. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See thining as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
adjective:  Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
adjective:  Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
adjective:  Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.
adjective:  Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
adjective:  (golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
adjective:  Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
adjective:  Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
adjective:  (aviation) Of a route: relatively little used.
adjective:  Poor; scanty; without money or success.
noun:  (philately) A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.
noun:  Any food produced or served in thin slices.
verb:  (transitive) To make thin or thinner.
verb:  (intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
verb:  To dilute.
verb:  To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
adverb:  Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.

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