Dictionary entry
Thinnest
Pronunciation: /θɪn/
Pronunciation
/θɪn/
Myanmar Meaning
(adj[sup]) အပါးဆုံး
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
- The box was covered with a thin layer of dust.
- There’s a thin crack in the glass.
- Cut the cucumbers and tomatoes into thin slices.
- Thin lips
- Charles was thin and very tall.
- She has been ill and is much too thin.
- Thin bony arms
- A thin moustache
- A plate of meat covered with thin gravy
- Dexter won by a thin margin (=a small number of votes
- points etc).
- I heard a thin high cry.
- In the mountains
- the air is thinner.