Definition of Thin out

1. Verb. Make sparse. "Thin out the young plants"

Generic synonyms: Bring Down, Cut, Cut Back, Cut Down, Reduce, Trim, Trim Back, Trim Down
Specialized synonyms: Clip, Crop, Cut Back, Dress, Lop, Prune, Snip, Trim

2. Verb. Become sparser. "Towards the end of town, the houses thinned out"
Generic synonyms: Decrease, Diminish, Fall, Lessen

3. Verb. Lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture. "Cut bourbon"
Exact synonyms: Cut, Dilute, Reduce, Thin
Generic synonyms: Weaken
Specialized synonyms: Water Down
Derivative terms: Cutting, Dilutant, Dilution, Dilution, Thinner, Thinning

Definition of Thin out

1. Verb. (transitive) To make sparse. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To become sparse. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thin Out

thin-leaved bilberry
thin-leaved stringybark
thin-shelled mussel
thin-skinned
thin air
thin as a rake
thin client
thin clients
thin edge of the wedge
thin end of the wedge
thin filament
thin film
thin layer chromatography
thin on the ground
thin out (current term)
thin person
thin section
thin space
thin spaces
thin trading
thinck
thinclad
thinclads
thindown
thindowns
thine
thing-in-itself
thingal

Literary usage of Thin out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of Coal and Its Topography: Illustrated by Original Drawings, Chiefly by J. Peter Lesley (1856)
"Mountains terminate when the rocks thin out.—There is no formation that envelops the whole earth and very few that can be traced a thousand miles. ..."

2. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"They are often of great thickness locally, but thin out and nearly disappear. The population in 1872 was ..."

3. Biennial Report by Kansas State Horticultural Society, British Soviet Friendship Society (1906)
"When the rapid growth of the summer has about ceased I go among my peach trees and thin out the heads quite freely, and shorten in the main branches. ..."

4. The Farmer's Encyclopædia, and Dictionary of Rural Affairs: Embracing All by Cuthbert William Johnson (1844)
"Sow at close of spring to middle of summer in shallow drills; when up an inch or two, thin out to stand a fool apart. In dry weather tie up to blanch as ..."

5. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"<i, Sandstones and Conglomerates; b, Limestones. gradually thin out. Each individual bed, therefore, in any group of stratified rocks, may be regarded ..."

6. Plant Propagation: Greenhouse and Nursery Practice by Maurice Grenville Kains (1916)
"thin out so the plants are not crowded. If desired, early seed may also be sown in ... Cover, press firmly, and thin out seedlings to prevent crowding. ..."

7. A Practical Guide to Garden Plants: Containing Descriptions of the Hardiest by John Weathers (1901)
"thin out seedlings, but do not transplant thinnings, as the broken tap-root will only become ... Hoe and thin out, and make a larger sowing than in March. ..."

8. The Florist and Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits by Robert Hogg (1866)
"—thin out those up, leaving three, four, or | blooming. ... thin out blooming shoote to three or four on a plant, according to it« strength and the known ..."

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