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Thin vs Lithe - What's the difference?

thin | lithe |

In transitive terms the difference between thin and lithe

is that thin is to make thin or thinner while lithe is to listen to.

As an adverb thin

is not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.

thin

English

Adjective

(thinner)
  • Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
    • thin plate of metal
    thin paper
    thin board
    thin covering
  • Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
    • thin wire
    thin string
  • Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
    • thin person
  • Of low viscosity or low specific gravity, e.g., as is water compared to honey.
  • Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
    • The trees of a forest are thin'''; the corn or grass is '''thin .
  • * Addison
    • Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people.
  • (golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
  • Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
  • * Dryden
    • thin , hollow sounds, and lamentable screams
  • Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
    • a thin disguise

    Synonyms

    * reedy * slender * slim * skinny * waifish * fine * lightweight * narrow * svelte * See also

    Antonyms

    * thick

    Derived terms

    * into thin air * razor thin * thin air * thin as a rake * thick and thin * thin-skinned * wear thin

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (philately) A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.
  • Any food produced or served in thin slices.
    • chocolate mint thins
    potato thins

    Verb

  • To make thin or thinner.
  • To become thin or thinner.
  • To dilute.
  • To remove some plants in order to improve the growth of those remaining.

    • Derived terms

    * thin out

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.
    • seed sown thin
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Spain is thin sown of people.

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    lithe

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) lithen, from (etyl) . See also (l), (l).

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To go.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) lithe, from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (obsolete) Mild; calm.
    • ''lithe weather
  • slim but not skinny
    • lithe body
  • *
    • She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe , polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
  • Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber
    • the elephant’s lithe proboscis.
  • * 1861 , , page 125
    • … she danced with a kind of passionate fierceness, her lithe body undulating with flexuous grace …
    Synonyms
    * lithesome, lissome,

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) lithen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) To become calm.
  • (obsolete) To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.

    • Etymology 4

    From (etyl) lithen, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

    (lith)
  • (obsolete) To give ear; attend; listen.
  • To listen to.

    • Etymology 5

    Origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of (lewth).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) Shelter.
  • * 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song :
    • So Cospatric got him the Pict folk to build a strong castle there in the lithe of the hills, with the Grampians dark and bleak behind it, and he had the Den drained and he married a Pict lady and got on her bairns and he lived there till he died.

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