thinner
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈθɪnə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) enPR: thĭnʹər, IPA(key): /ˈθɪnɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɪnə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: thin‧ner
Adjective
thinner
Noun
thinner (plural thinners)
- A liquid substance used to thin the consistency of another liquid.
- Turpentine or mineral spirits can be used as a thinner for oil-based paints.
- Something that thins or thins out (another thing).
- Pomegranate juice and exercise are great natural blood thinners.
- The new type of mechanical thinner allowed thinning of peach blossoms to be completed earlier.
- A solid mane thinner is indispensable in finishing the looks of your horse.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Turkish: tiner
Translations
liquid
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something that thins
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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English thinner.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɪ.nər/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: thin‧ner
- Rhymes: -ɪnər
Noun
thinner m (uncountable)
Spanish
Alternative forms
- thiner, tíner, tíñer
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English thinner.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtineɾ/ [ˈt̪i.neɾ]
- Rhymes: -ineɾ
- Syllabification: thin‧ner
Noun
thinner m (plural thinners)
- thinner, paint thinner
- Synonyms: disolvente, solvente
Usage notes
- According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
- “thinner”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English thinner. Attested since 1934.
Noun
thinner c
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | thinner | thinners |
| definite | thinnern | thinnerns | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — |