English-Dutch translations for thin

• dun
  Slim in het Engels betekent in het Nederlands "dun" . The English 'slim' means 'thin' in Dutch.
  Zo dun kan de grens tussen aanvaardbaar en onaanvaardbaar niet zijn. The line between the acceptable and the unacceptable cannot be so thin.
  De Verenigde Staten begeven zich op zeer dun ijs, merkte een van onze deskundigen op. As one of our experts said, the United States is skating on very thin ice.
• ijl
• mager
  Ik moet tot mijn spijt bekennen dat ik dit een nogal mager antwoord vind. I regret to say I find that a rather thin answer.
  Het is in ieder geval oneindig veel meer dan de magere begrotingslijn van voorheen, waarmee maar net het bloeden gestopt kon worden. This is already infinitely more than the small budget line that existed previously and which could only be spread very thinly.
  Wat mijn specialiteit, het milieu, betreft vind ik het programma van het voorzitterschap echter een beetje mager en niet voldoende concreet. When it comes to the environmental sphere, which is my own speciality, I think, however, that the Presidency’s programme is rather thin and not sufficiently practical.
• schriel
• slank
  De obesitas-epidemie is een feit, maar er bestaat tegelijk ook de obsessie, drang en druk om slank te zijn. It is also true, however, that there is a strong obsession, insistence and indeed a requirement to be thin.
• smal
• spichtig

Definition of thin

• Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite
• Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions
• Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt
• Of low viscosity or low specific gravity
• Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space
• Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe
• Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering
• A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole
• To make thin or thinner
• To dilute
• Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state

Examples

• thin plate of metal;  thin paper;  thin board;  thin covering
• thin wire;  thin string
• thin person
• Water is thinner than honey.
• The trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin.
• a thin disguise
• chocolate mint thins
• potato thins
• The crowds thinned after the procession had passed: there was nothing more to see.
• seed sown thin

Related words

• good-for-nothing
• something
• thing
• think
• everything
• nothing
• within
• bathing
• thinner