Crossword clues for thinner
thinner
- Less powerful, the river surrounds pub
- Bar coated with the right solvent
- Diluting agent
- The champion, dismissing bridge team as less substantial
- Paint additive
- Painter's need
- Turpentine, e.g
- Not so bulky
- More emaciated
- Less fat
- Less corpulent
- Solvent added to paint
- Paint diluter
- Not so wide
- More like a wafer
- It's used for the sake of consistency
- A diluting agent
- Lacking spirit or sincere effort
- (of sound) lacking resonance or volume
- Not viscous
- Relatively thin in consistency or low in density
- Not dense
- Having little substance or significance
- Very narrow
- Of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section
- Lacking excess flesh
- Turpentine, at times
- Painter's aid
- Not so thick
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thinner \Thin"ner\, n. One who thins, or makes thinner.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
liquid used to dilute paint, ink, etc., 1904, agent noun from thin (v.).
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: thin) n. 1 A liquid substance used to thin the consistency of another liquid. 2 Something that thins.
WordNet
adj. of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section; "thin wire"; "a thin chiffon blouse"; "a thin book"; "a thin layer of paint" [ant: thick]
lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare [syn: lean] [ant: fat]
very narrow; "a thin line across the page" [syn: slender]
having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot" [syn: flimsy, slight, tenuous]
not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse" [syn: sparse]
relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous; "air is thin at high altitudes"; "a thin soup"; "skimmed milk is much thinner than whole milk"; "thin oil" [ant: thick]
(of sound) lacking resonance or volume; "a thin feeble cry" [ant: full]
lacking spirit or sincere effort; "a thin smile"
v. lose thickness; become thin or thinner [ant: thicken]
make thin or thinner; "Thin the solution" [ant: thicken]
lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon" [syn: dilute, thin out, reduce, cut]
take off weight [syn: reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, slim down] [ant: gain]
See thin
Wikipedia
Thinner may mean:
- Paint thinner, a solvent used in painting and decorating, for thinning oil-based paint and cleaning brushes.
- Thinner (novel), a 1984 horror novel by Stephen King, written as Richard Bachman
- Thinner (film), a 1996 horror film based on the novel by Stephen King
- Thinner (netlabel), a German netlabel releasing electronic music
Thinner is a 1984 novel by Stephen King, published under his pseudonym, Richard Bachman.
It would be the last novel which King released under the Richard Bachman pseudonym until the release of The Regulators in 1996, and the last released prior to Bachman being outed as being Stephen King's pseudonym.
The initial hardcover release of Thinner included a fake jacket photo of "Bachman". The photo is claimed to have been taken by Claudia Inez Bachman. The actual subject of the photo is Richard Manuel, the insurance agent of Kirby McCauley, who was King's literary agent.
The novel was adapted for the 1996 film Thinner.
Thinner (marketed as Stephen King's Thinner) is a 1996 American body horror film directed by Tom Holland and written by Michael McDowell and Holland. The film is based on the Stephen King novel of the same name and stars Robert John Burke, Joe Mantegna, Lucinda Jenney, Michael Constantine, Kari Wührer and Bethany Joy Lenz.
The film screened alongside Michael Jackson's short film Michael Jackson's Ghosts in select theaters around the world.
Thinner is a netlabel founded by Thomas Jaldemark and it was mainly operated by Sebastian Redenz and Ole Schulte as leading parts of an international team until 2009. Based in Frankfurt, Germany, Thinner was one of the most consistent and successful netlabels. Thinner’s catalogue includes releases from artists such as Digitalverein, Marko Fürstenberg, Benfay, Pheek, krill.minima, Vladislav Delay, Christian Bloch and many others. As of September 2006, Thinner productions had accumulated over two million MP3 downloads. Thinner had a sublabel called Autoplate, focusing on experimental and ambient music.
Usage examples of "thinner".
The thin story he had told the assignor was now thinner, to the point of being full of holes.
The thick cord of an antiquated electric bowl fire shared a power-point with the thinner cord of a photoflood lamp and reflector on a tall metal stand.
Protogenes, returning, saw the line and knew who his visitor must be, but took up his brush and painted a thinner line down the middle of the first, Apelles returned with Protogenes once more away and divided that line in turn by a line so thin that it brought the contest to an immediate end.
The thinner Prowler, who had looked like a celebrity in his human face, lunged at Jack and batted the gun out of his hand.
At any rate, it was likely the thinner elastic materials of her underwear would have thwarted the experimental resewing process.
The Derna is a swifter, thinner river than the Scaum, its bosomy sister to the south.
He was grayer than he had been eighteen years earlier, and a little thinner, but still big and shambolic with the same warm, welcoming, and patient expression on his long face and an identical pair of half-glasses tucked into his breast pocket.
She was taller and thinner than Kate, and had at times a certain shy, coy sinuosity of movement which gave her a more virginal suggestion than her unmarried sister.
The police unbraided the graph paper, along with strips of another kind of paper, thinner and brittle, that had no lines.
In the center of the villus is another vessel, with thinner and more transparent walls, which is the commencement of a lacteal.
We assembled in the anteroom, clinging to walls, avoiding the center of the room for some reason, and we told each other how good the dead man looked, as if he were not dead at all but only waxed and welldressed as part of some process of rejuvenation and would soon be buzzed awake, thinner than ever and quite refreshed.
The ashfall grew even thinner, and the sky overhead turned a hazy, yellowish blue.
Behind the desk was a meter-high rack of thinner bluesteel tubing, shaped somewhat like the kind of kickable step stool to be found in libraries.
In Barrow, the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission spent a large part of its annual convention last year discussing, among other things, the perils of hunting bowhead whales from increasingly thinner ice.
We must have had some such normal notions to fall back upon as our eyes swept that limitless, tempest-scarred plateau and grasped the almost endless labyrinth of colossal, regular, and geometrically eurythmic stone masses which reared their crumbled and pitted crests above a glacial sheet not more than forty or fifty feet deep at its thickest, and in places obviously thinner.