| thin | Not thickly or closely; in a seattered state; as, seed sown thin. "Spain is thin sown of people." (Bacon) 1. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering. 2. Rare; not dense or thick; applied to fluids or soft mixtures; as, thin blood; thin broth; thin air. "In the day, when the air is more thin." (Bacon) "Satan, bowing low His gray dissimulation, disappeared, Into thin air diffused." (Milton) 3. Not close; not crowded; not filling the space; not having the individuals of which the thing is composed in a close or compact state; hence, not abundant; as, the trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin. "Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people." (Addison) 4. Not full or well grown; wanting in plumpness. "Seven thin ears . . . Blasted with the east wind." (Gen. Xli. 6) 5. Not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt; as, a person becomes thin by disease. 6. Wanting in body or volume; small; feeble; not full. "Thin, hollow sounds, and lamentable screams." (Dryden) 7. Slight; small; slender; flimsy; wanting substance or depth or force; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering; as, a thin disguise. "My tale is done, for my wit is but thin." (Chaucer) Thin is used in the formation of compounds which are mostly self-explaining; as, thin-faced, thin-lipped, thin-peopled, thin-shelled, and the like. Thin section. See Section. Origin: OE. Thinne, thenne, thunne, AS. Thynne; akin to D. Dun, G. Dunn, OHG. Dunni, Icel. Thunnr, Sw. Tunn, Dan. Tynd, Gael. & Ir. Tana, W. Teneu, L. Tenuis, Gr. (in comp) stretched out, stretched, stretched out, long, Skr. Tanu thin, slender; also to AS. Enian to extend, G. Dehnen, Icel. Enja, Goth. Anjan (in comp), L. Tendere to stretch, tenere to hold, Gr. To stretch, Skr. Tan. 51 & 237. Cf. Attenuate, Dance, Tempt, Tenable, Tend to move, Tenous, Thunder, Tone. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| thin filament | Filaments 7-9nm diameter attached to the Z discs of striated muscle, have opposite polarity in each half sarcomere. Built of F actin with associated tropomyosin and troponin. (18 Nov 1997) |
| thin film | <radiobiology> Plasmas are often used to deposit thin-film coatings on various materials. (09 Oct 1997) |
| thin layer chromatography | <technique> Chromatography using a thin layer of powdered medium on an inert sheet to support the stationary phase. Faster than paper chromatography, gives higher resolution and requires smaller samples. (18 Nov 1997) |
| thin section | A section of tissue for electron microscopic examination; the specimen is fixed, typically in glutaraldehyde and/or in osmium tetroxide, embedded in a plastic resin, and sectioned at less than 0.1 um in thickness with a glass or diamond knife in an ultramicrotome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| thin-layer chromatography | Chromatography through a thin layer of cellulose or similar inert material supported on a glass or plastic plate. (05 Mar 2000) |
| thin-layer electrophoresis | Electrophoretic migrations (separations) through a thin layer of inert material, such as cellulose, supported on a glass or plastic plate. (05 Mar 2000) |
| thin-layer immunoassay | A method for detection of antigen-antibody reactions, applicable to detection of either antigen or antibody, based on the fact that either reactant, when added to a polystyrene surface (such as a well in a polystyrene plate) is adsorbed as a thin layer and acts as an immunosorbent capable of binding with the second reactant. (05 Mar 2000) |
| thin-skinned | Having a thin skin; hence, sensitive; irritable. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| think | 1. To seem or appear; used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought. These are genuine Anglo-Saxon expressions, equivalent to it seems to me, it seemed to me. In these expressions me is in the dative case. 2. To employ any of the intellectual powers except that of simple perception through the senses; to exercise the higher intellectual faculties. "For that I am I know, because I think." (Dryden) 3. Specifically: To call anything to mind; to remember; as, I would have sent the books, but I did not think of it. "Well thought upon; I have it here." (Shak) To reflect upon any subject; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to consider; to deliberate. "And when he thought thereon, he wept." (Mark xiv. 72) "He thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?" (Luke xii. 17) To form an opinion by reasoning; to judge; to conclude; to believe; as, I think it will rain to-morrow. "Let them marry to whom they think best." (Num. Xxxvi. 6) To purpose; to intend; to design; to mean. "I thought to promote thee unto great honor." (Num. Xxiv. 11) "Thou thought'st to help me." (Shak) To presume; to venture. "Think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father." (Matt. Iii. 9) To think, in a philosophical use as yet somewhat limited, designates the higher intellectual acts, the acts preeminently rational; to judge; to compare; to reason. Thinking is employed by Hamilton as "comprehending all our collective energies." It is defined by Mansel as "the act of knowing or judging by means of concepts,"by Lotze as "the reaction of the mind on the material supplied by external influences." See Thought. To think better of. See Better. To think much of, or To think well of, to hold in esteem; to esteem highly. Synonym: To expect, guess, cogitate, reflect, ponder, contemplate, meditate, muse, imagine, suppose, believe. See Expect, Guess. Origin: OE. Thinken, properly, to seem, from AS. Thyncean (cf. Methinks), but confounded with OE. Thenken to think, fr. AS. Thencean (imp. Thohte); akin to D. Denken, dunken, OS. Thenkian, thunkian, G. Denken, dunken, Icel. Thekkja to perceive, to know, thykkja to seem, Goth. Thagkjan, thaggkjan, to think, thygkjan to think, to seem, OL. Tongere to know. Cf. Thank, Thought. 1. To conceive; to imagine. "Charity . . . Thinketh no evil." (1 Cor. Xiii. 4,5) 2. To plan or design; to plot; to compass. "So little womanhood And natural goodness, as to think the death Of her own son." (Beau. & Fl) 3. To believe; to consider; to esteem. "Nor think superfluous other's aid." (Milton) To think much, to esteem a great matter; to grudge. "[He] thought not much to clothe his enemies." . To think scorn. To disdain. "He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone." . To feel indignation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| thinking | Mental activity, not predominantly perceptual, by which one apprehends some aspect of an object or situation based on past learning and experience. (12 Dec 1998) |
| thinking through | The psychological process of understanding, with insight, one's own behaviour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| thinly | In a thin manner; in a loose, scattered manner; scantily; not thickly; as, ground thinly planted with trees; a country thinly inhabited. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| thinning | Partial or complete removal of undesirable or excess plants. (09 Oct 1997) |
| thinolite | <chemical> A calcareous tufa, in part crystalline, occurring on a large scale as a shore deposit about the Quaternary lake basins of Nevada. Origin: Gr, shore. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| chromatography, thin layer | Chromatography on thin layers of adsorbents rather than in columns. The adsorbent can be alumina, silica gel, silicates, charcoals, or cellulose. (12 Dec 1998) |
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