thinning 的 4 个定义
thin·ner, thin·nest.
- having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick: thin ice.
- of small cross section in comparison with the length; slender: a thin wire.
- having little flesh; spare; lean: a thin man.
- (13)
- in a thin manner.
- sparsely; not densely.
- so as to produce something thin: Slice the ham thin.
thinned, thin·ning.
- to make thin or thinner.
thinned, thin·ning.
- to become thin or thinner; become reduced or diminished: The crowd is thinning out.
thinning 近义词
make diluted or less dense
由thinning构成的短语
- thin as a rail
- thin edge of the wedge
- thing or two
- things are looking up
- thin on top
- into thin air
- on thin ice
- spread oneself too thin
- through thick and thin
- wear thin
更多thinning例句
- The fiber is soft enough to wear directly on the skin—and it’s thin, so it doesn’t feel bulky under a pair of skinny jeans.
- Since the pandemic began, many of her calls to the facility have gone unanswered, she added, and when she does hear from a nurse, they often say that they’re being stretched thin because of staffing shortages.
- With a perfectly round head and thinning hair slicked down, he even looked a little as if he’d been picked up at the secondhand henchman store.
- Banana slices are layered on the bottom, followed by a few scoops of raib, a thin Moroccan yogurt.
- Wisconsin is battling its worst outbreak of the pandemic, and every hospital is stretched thin on staff, he said.
- Over his thinning dark hair and fleshy cheeks, he pulls a brown ski mask.
- The fear is that thinning the blood further might promote more bleeding rather than decrease the risk of clot enlargement.
- His hair is a thinning silver brillo pad, and his belly juts forward from beneath his suit jacket.
- Behind-the-scenes strong-arming is the traditional means of thinning the herd.
- In the letter, Boxer cited the leak, as well as the unexpected wear and thinning of the steam-generator tubes.
- But in the great thoroughfare the tide of vehicles and foot passengers was perceptibly thinning.
- At last—the saints above knew after how long—he saw the pines thinning, then the rocks shone black and bare in the sun.
- When the last of them had passed I observed with great alarm a thinning out of the darkness along the eastern skyline.
- This is done by a moderate thinning of the main shoots early in the year, resulting in the forcing of those which are left.
- Gradually the rooms were thinning, and at last Lady Thurwell, impatient of her niece's long absence, came to fetch her.