Thin-skinned

Definition

thin /θÇn/ adj ( -nner, -nnest ) ၁။ ပါးေသာ။ ပါးလႊာေသာ။ ေသးေသာ။ a thin line/wire ❍ a thin sheet of metal/slice of bread/layer of glue ❍ thin fingers/lips ❍ a thin cotton dress ❍ The ice is too thin to stand on. ❍ The walls are so thin you can hear what they're saying in the next room ❍ The rope was wearing thin in one place. ၂။ ( sometimes derog ) ပိန္ေသာ။ ႀကံဳလီွေသာ။ a tall, thin man ❍ have thin legs ❍ thin cattle ❍ Her illness had left her looking pale and thin. Compare FAT adj ၁ ၃။ ခ်ည့္နဲ႔ေသာ။ အားနည္းေသာ။ a thin voice/smile. ၄။ မထူေသာ။ ပါးေသာ။ က်ဲေသာ။ နည္းေသာ။ a thin mist ❍ thin clouds ❍ We had difficulty breathing in the thin mountain air. ၅။ (အရည္) မပ်စ္ေသာ။ က်ဲေသာ။ thin gravy. ၆။ (လူေနစသည္) က်ဲေသာ။ မစိပ္ေသာ။ His hair's/He's getting rather thin on top (ie He is starting to lose his hair). ❍ a region with a thin population ❍ a thin audience. ၇။ နည္းေသာ။ ပါးေသာ။ thin profits/support ❍ Trading on the stock market has been thin. ၈။ မခိုင္လံုေသာ။ ယုတၱိမတန္ေသာ။ ညံ့ေသာ။ a thin (ie not convincing) excuse ❍ a thin (ie easily discovered) disguise ❍ I found her latest novel pretty thin. adv ပါးပါး။ Don't spread it too thin. v ( -nn- ) ~ ( sth ) (out ) ; ~ sth ( down ) ပါးသြားသည္။ က်ဲလာ သည္။ က်ဲသြားသည္။ က်ဲေအာင္လုပ္သည္။ ရွင္းပစ္သည္။ The clouds thinned and the sun came out. ❍ He/His hair is thinning on top. ❍ The traffic was thinning out. ❍ thin out seedlings (ie remove some to help others to grow better) ❍ thin (down) paint with white spirit. ❏ have a thin time (of it) [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဒုကၡမ်ားသည္။ ႐ံႈးသည္။ The team's been having a thin time (of it) recently—not a single win in two months. ❏ thin down [ PHRV ] ပိန္က်သြားသည္။ He's thinned down a lot since he went on a diet. ❏ the thin end of the wedge [ IDM ] ( esp Brit ) ျပႆနာ အစ။ မီးစ။ ျပာသာဒ္ကိုေလာင္မည့္အမိႈက္။ Newspaper editors regard the government's intention to regulate the press as the thin end of the wedge. ❏ thinly adv ပါးပါး။ က်ဲက်ဲ။ ယဲ့ယဲ့။ အေပၚယံယိက။ thinly sliced ham ❍ Sow the plants quite thinly. ❍ She smiled thinly. ❍ His novel is a thinly disguised autobiography. thinness /'θÇnnǝs/ n [U] ❏ thinner /'θÇnǝ(r)/ n [U, C] (also thinners [pl]) သုတ္ေဆး၊ အေရာင္တင္ဆီတို႔ကို က်ဲေအာင္ ေဖ်ာ္ေသာပစၥည္း။ သင္နာ။ ❏ thin-skinned adj နာတတ္ေသာ။ အေရပါး ေသာ။ ❏ vanish, etc into thin air [ IDM ] ေပ်ာက္ျခင္းမလွေပ်ာက္သြားသည္။

Examples

1. The box was covered with a thin layer of dust.
2. There’s a thin crack in the glass.
3. Cut the cucumbers and tomatoes into thin slices.
4. Thin lips
5. Charles was thin and very tall.
6. She has been ill and is much too thin.
7. Thin bony arms
8. A thin moustache
9. A plate of meat covered with thin gravy
10. Dexter won by a thin margin (=a small number of votes
11. points etc).
12. I heard a thin high cry.
13. In the mountains
14. the air is thinner.