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Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary © 2009 Oxford University Press:
thin /θɪn/
- adjective
- (in width) (nose, lips, stick, wall) mince;
(line, stripe, string, wire) fin;
(strip) étroit;
- (in depth) (slice, layer) fin, mince;
the ice is ~ la couche de glace n'est pas très épaisse;
- (in consistency) (mud, mixture) liquide;
(soup, liquid, sauce) clair;
(oil) fluide;
- (lean) maigre;
to get ~ maigrir;
- (fine) (card, paper) fin;
(fabric, mist) léger/-ère;
- (in tone) (high-pitched) aigre;
(weak) fluet/fluette;
- (population, crowd, hair) clairsemé;
- fig (excuse) peu convaincant;
(evidence) insuffisant;
(plot) squelettique;
to wear ~ (joke, excuse) être usé;
my patience is wearing ~ je commence à perdre patience;
- (air) raréfié.
- (in width) (nose, lips, stick, wall) mince;
- (familier)adverb (slice) en tranches fpl fines;
(spread) en couche mince.
- transitive verb (p prés etc -nn-)
- (also ~ down) diluer (paint);
allonger (sauce, soup);
- (disperse) = See Also→ thin out .
- (also ~ down) diluer (paint);
- intransitive verb (p prés etc -nn-) (also ~ out) (fog, mist) se dissiper;
(crowd) se disperser;
(hair) se raréfier.
- thinning pres p adj (hair, crowd) clairsemé.
IDIOMS:
to be ~ on the ground être rare;
to get ~ on top se dégarnir;
to have a ~ time of it traverser une période difficile.
thin down US to get ~ on top se dégarnir;
to have a ~ time of it traverser une période difficile.
maigrir.
thin out: ▶ ~ [sth] out, ~ out [sth] éclaircir (seedlings, hedge);
réduire (population).
réduire (population).
'thin' found in these Oxford entries:
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French:
amaigrir
- cheveu
- clairsemé
- cordelette
- cordonnet
- crêpe
- délayer
- désépaissir
- diluer
- disperser
- échalas
- éclaircir
- effeuiller
- effiler
- élimer
- épaisseur
- ficelle
- fil
- filet
- fille
- fin
- fluet
- fluidifier
- gaule
- grêle
- Grisons
- hareng
- léger
- maigre
- maigreur
- mince
- nature
- pellicule
- peur
- pincé
- pitié
- poil
- rare
- rue
- sauce
- sous-pull
- trique
- volatiliser
thin: WordReference English-French Dictionary © 2012
| Principal Translations/Principales traductions | |||
| thin | adj | (narrow) | étroit adj |
| There is a thin road leading up the mountain. | |||
| Il y a une route étroite qui mène en haut de la montagne. | |||
| thin | adj | (slice) | traduction non disponible |
| He cut a thin slice of ham. | |||
| thin | adj | (person: slender, fine) | maigre adj |
| The thin girl had no trouble getting through the crowd. | |||
| La fille maigre put facilement traverser la foule. | |||
| Additional Translations/Traductions supplémentaires | |||
| thin | adj | (liquid: watery) | liquide adj |
| clair adj | |||
| The soup was a little thin. It shouldn't have had so much water. | |||
| La soupe est un peu trop liquide. Elle ne devrait pas avoir autant d'eau. | |||
| La soupe est un peu trop claire. Elle ne devrait pas avoir tant d'eau. | |||
| thin | adj | (area: sparse) | épars adj |
| clairsemé adj | |||
| The trees were very thin there. | |||
| Les arbres étaient très épars par ici. | |||
| Les arbres de la praire étaient clairsemés. | |||
| thin | adj | (sound: tinny) | aigu adj |
| voix | grêle, fluet adj | ||
| The guitar had a thin sound for some reason. | |||
| La guitare avait un son aigu. | |||
| * Il parlait toujours d'une voix grêle (or: fluette). | |||
| thin | adj | figurative (argument: weak) | peu convaincant adj |
| faible, médiocre adj | |||
| The thin argument failed to convince anybody. | |||
| L'argument peu convaincant n'avait convaincu personne. | |||
| Le faible argument (or: L'argument médiocre) n'avait convaincu personne. | |||
| thin | vtr | (make thin) sauce, soupe | délayer⇒, allonger⇒ vtr |
| cheveux | désépaissir⇒ vtr | ||
| peinture | délayer⇒, étendre⇒ vtr | ||
| The soup is too thick. It needs to be thinned some. | |||
| La soupe est trop épaisse, il faut la délayer (or: l'allonger). | |||
| * Il faut désépaissir un peu cette touffe de cheveux. | |||
| * Tu obtiendras un meilleur résultat en délayant (or: en étendant) la peinture. | |||
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thin: WordReference English-French Dictionary © 2012
| Compound Forms/Formes composées | |||
| a bit thin | adj | colloquial (slightly too thin) personne | un peu (trop) maigre, mince adv + adj |
| The gravy seems a bit thin, so I think I'll add some more flour to thicken it up. | |||
| Elle est un peu maigre, je préfère les filles aux formes généreuses. | |||
| personne, fam | un peu maigrichon adv + adj | ||
| Elle est un peu maigrichonne, je préfère les filles aux formes généreuses. | |||
| pour la sauce | un peu (trop) dilué adv + adj | ||
| La sauce est un peu trop diluée, je crois que je vais y ajouter de la farine pour l'épaissir. | |||
| a bit thin | adj | (with limited resources) budget | un peu limité adv + adj |
| My budget is a bit thin, so I won't be going to Africa this year. | |||
| personne, fam | un peu raide adv + adj | ||
| Je suis un peu raide, peux-tu m'avancer cinquante euros ? | |||
| into thin air | dans l'air raréfié | ||
| skeleton-thin, skeleton thin | adj | (emaciated) | squelettique adj |
| Note: hyphen omitted when term is an adj after a noun | |||
| Sur cette photo, elle a l'air presque squelettique. | |||
| n'ayant que la peau sur les os loc | |||
| thick and thin | n | figurative (all manner of difficulties) | contre vents et marées loc adv |
| envers et contre tout loc adv | |||
| thin capitalization | (finance) finance | capitalisation restreinte nf | |
| thin consistency | inconsistance nf | ||
| thin cord | petite corde | cordelette nf | |
| thin down | vi | (become thinner) | mincir⇒ vi |
| She was trying to thin down but kept on eating potato chips every night. | |||
| maigrir⇒ vi | |||
| perdre du poids loc v | |||
| thin down | vtr | (make thinner) liquide | diluer⇒ vtr |
| If you thin that whiskey down, you won't get drunk so fast. | |||
| substance | délayer⇒ vtr | ||
| Tu peux délayer cette peinture à l'aide d'un solvant. | |||
| liquide | allonger⇒ vtr | ||
| Je verse toujours un peu d'eau dans mon café pour l'allonger. | |||
| thin groove | onglet nm | ||
| thin layer | lamelle nf | ||
| thin out | vi | (diminish, dissipate) | se disperser⇒ v pron |
| The crowd thinned out after the parade was over. | |||
| He's an older man, his hair is grey and thining out on top. | |||
| Une fois le défilé fini, la foule s'est dispersée. | |||
| thin out the leaves of | un arbre fruitier | effeuiller v | |
| thin skin | n | figurative, informal (sensitivity to criticism) | sensible adj |
| susceptible adj | |||
| sensibilité à fleur de peau nf | |||
| thin skinned | (over sensitive) qui prend la mouche | à sensibilité à fleur de peau adj | |
| thin slot | onglet nm | ||
| through thick and thin | adv | figurative, informal (through all manner of difficulties) | contre vents et marées loc adv |
| envers et contre tout loc adv | |||
| very thin pancake | crêpe dentelle nf | ||
| wafer-thin | (ultrafin) ultrafin | mince adj | |
| walk on thin ice | marcher sur des œufs | ||
| wear thin | vi | literal (fabric: become threadbare) | user jusqu'à la corde loc v |
| He's had that blanket since he was a child; it is worn thin. | |||
| Il a cette couverture depuis qu'il est petit ; elle est usée jusqu'à la corde. | |||
| wear thin | vi | figurative (excuse, etc.: be overused) | être usé loc v |
| Her constant excuses for her tardiness were wearing thin on the boss. | |||
| fig | être éculé loc v | ||
| Si seulement tonton Lucien voulait nous épargner ses vieilles blagues, elles sont vraiment éculées ! | |||
| ne plus faire effet loc v | |||
| Ses excuses ne font plus effet sur le patron. | |||
| Report an error | |||
Forums WR : discussions dont le titre comprend le mot(s) "thin".
"thick and thin"
a THIN market
as they crushed the thin layer of ice
Clothes too thin to fend
Clouds' thin bars. (Thoreau)
Cook yourself thin
Crumbling skull rule / Thin skull rule
don't want to stretch myself too thin
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide
Hard thin film deposition
I don't think that models should be as thin as they are
investment style of the fund through thick and thin
light, thin or subtle difference?
my patience is wearing thin
Not spread thin on halloween.
on thin air
out of thin air / into thin air
second's action would end ever thin
she has thin hair
Sitting on the large stone that marked this spot was a thin man...
skinny and thin
spread too thin
stick-thin
stretched thin
Sucre (geology, thin section)
tales stretched so thin they had snapped
temper become thin
The air is thin
the alternating blanks of darkness and thin night
the thin single mattress
Suite...
a THIN market
as they crushed the thin layer of ice
Clothes too thin to fend
Clouds' thin bars. (Thoreau)
Cook yourself thin
Crumbling skull rule / Thin skull rule
don't want to stretch myself too thin
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide
Hard thin film deposition
I don't think that models should be as thin as they are
investment style of the fund through thick and thin
light, thin or subtle difference?
my patience is wearing thin
Not spread thin on halloween.
on thin air
out of thin air / into thin air
second's action would end ever thin
she has thin hair
Sitting on the large stone that marked this spot was a thin man...
skinny and thin
spread too thin
stick-thin
stretched thin
Sucre (geology, thin section)
tales stretched so thin they had snapped
temper become thin
The air is thin
the alternating blanks of darkness and thin night
the thin single mattress
Suite...
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