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Definition of Thin out

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

2. Verb. Become sparser. "Towards the end of town, the houses thinned out"

3. Verb. Lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture. "Cut bourbon"

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 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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