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shrink
English
Etymology
From Middle English shrinken, from Old English s?rincan, from Proto-Germanic *skrinkwan?. Cognate with Dutch schrinken (“to shrink”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?????k/
- Rhymes: -??k
Verb
shrink (third-person singular simple present shrinks, present participle shrinking, simple past shrank or shrunk, past participle shrunk or shrunken)
- (transitive) To cause to become smaller.
- (intransitive) To become smaller; to contract.
- And shrink like parchment in consuming fire.
- 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
- Since 1982, it has shrunk by 250 meters.
- (intransitive) To cower or flinch.
- (transitive) To draw back; to withdraw.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To withdraw or retire, as from danger.
- 1881, Benjamin Jowett (translator), Thucydides
- They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank from the task.
- 1881, Benjamin Jowett (translator), Thucydides
- (intransitive) To move back or away, especially because of fear or disgust.
Synonyms
- (avoid an unwanted task): funk, shirk
- (withdraw or retire, as from danger): shrink back, retreat
Antonyms
- (to cause to become smaller): expand, grow, enlarge, stretch
- (become smaller): expand, grow, enlarge, stretch
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
shrink (plural shrinks)
- Shrinkage; contraction; recoil.
- (slang, sometimes derogatory) A psychiatrist or psychotherapist.
- Synonym: head-shrinker
- (uncountable, business) Loss of inventory, for example due to shoplifting or not selling items before their expiration date.
- 2011, Charles Sennewald & John Christman, Retail Crime, Security, and Loss Prevention: An Encyclopedic Reference, p. 227:
- Assuming the retailer's shrink is average or below, and the owner is comfortable with the level of shrink, perhaps nothing more need be done except to maintain vigilance and to monitor the shrink for signs of emerging problems.
- 2011, Charles Sennewald & John Christman, Retail Crime, Security, and Loss Prevention: An Encyclopedic Reference, p. 227:
Usage notes
- (therapist): The slang sense was originally pejorative, expressing a distrust of practitioners in the field. It is now not as belittling or trivializing.
Translations
References
- shrink at OneLook Dictionary Search
- shrink in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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thin
English
Etymology
From Middle English thinne, thünne, thenne, from Old English þynne, from Proto-West Germanic *þunn?, from Proto-Germanic *þunnuz (“thin”) – compare *þanjan? (“to stretch, spread out”) – from Proto-Indo-European *ténh?us (“thin”), from *ten- (“to stretch”).
Cognate with German dünn, Dutch dun, West Frisian tin, Icelandic þunnur, Danish tynd, Swedish tunn, Latin tenuis, Irish tanaí, Welsh tenau, Latvian tievs, Sanskrit ??? (tanú, “thin”), Persian ???? (tang, “narrow”). Doublet of tenuis. Also related to tenuous.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???n/
- Rhymes: -?n
- Homophones: tin (with th-stopping), fin (with th-fronting)
Adjective
thin (comparative thinner, superlative thinnest)
- Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
- Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin.
- Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
- Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
- thin person
- Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.
- Water is thinner than honey.
- Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
- The trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin.
- Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people.
- (golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
- Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
- thin, hollow sounds, and lamentable screams
- Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
- a thin disguise
- (aviation) Of a route: relatively little used.
- 2016, Hartmut Wolf, ?Peter Forsyth, ?David Gillen, Liberalization in Aviation (page 105)
- In short, we previously found that thin routes benefit from an increase in competition in the Spanish airline market when considering routes that were monopoly routes in 2001.
- 2016, Hartmut Wolf, ?Peter Forsyth, ?David Gillen, Liberalization in Aviation (page 105)
- Poor; scanty; without money or success.
- 1945, Jack Henry, What Price Crime? (page 92)
- Like their friends the "draggers," the "hoisters" or shoplifters are having a thin time these days, […]
- 1945, Jack Henry, What Price Crime? (page 92)
Synonyms
- (having little thickness from one surface to its opposite): narrow; see also Thesaurus:narrow
- (very narrow in all diameters): fine
- (having little body fat or flesh): reedy, skinny, slender, slim, svelte, waifish; see also Thesaurus:slender or Thesaurus:scrawny
- (of low viscosity): runny, watery; see also Thesaurus:runny
- (not close or crowded): spaced out, sparse; see also Thesaurus:diffuse
- (not numerous): scant, scarce, slight
Antonyms
- thick
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
thin (plural thins)
- (philately) A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.
- Any food produced or served in thin slices.
- chocolate mint thins
- potato thins
Translations
Verb
thin (third-person singular simple present thins, present participle thinning, simple past and past participle thinned)
- (transitive) To make thin or thinner.
- (intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
- The crowds thinned after the procession had passed: there was nothing more to see.
- To dilute.
- To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
Derived terms
- thin out
Translations
Adverb
thin (comparative more thin, superlative most thin)
- Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.
- seed sown thin
- 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain
- Spain is a nation thin sown of people.
Further reading
- thin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- thin in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- thin at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Nith, hint
Middle English
Etymology 1
Determiner
thin (subjective pronoun þou)
- Alternative form of þin (“thy”)
Pronoun
thin (subjective þou)
- Alternative form of þin (“thine”)
Etymology 2
Adjective
thin
- Alternative form of thinne (“thin”)
Old Dutch
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *þ?n.
Determiner
th?n
- thy, your (singular)
- thine, yours
Inflection
Descendants
- Middle Dutch: dijn
- Dutch: dijn
- Limburgish: dien
Further reading
- “th?n”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Old High German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ði?n/
Determiner
th?n
- Alternative form of din
References
- Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, Second Edition
Old Saxon
Etymology 1
From Proto-West Germanic *þ?n.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?i?n/
- (late Old Saxon) IPA(key): [ði?n]
Determiner
th?n
- thy, your (singular)
- thine, yours
Declension
See also
References
- Köbler, Gerhard, Altsächsisches Wörterbuch, (5. Auflage) 2014
- Altsächsisches Elementarbuch by Dr. F. Holthausen
Etymology 2
See here.
Determiner
thin
- instrumental singular masculine/neuter of th?
Welsh
Noun
thin
- Aspirate mutation of tin.
Mutation
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