Definition of Thinned

1. Adjective. Mixed with water. "A cup of thinned soup"

Exact synonyms: Cut, Weakened
Similar to: Dilute, Diluted

Definition of Thinned

1. Verb. (past of thin) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Thinned

1. thin [v] - See also: thin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thinned

thinking with one's little head
thinkingly
thinkingness
thinkingnesses
thinkings
thinko
thinkos
thinks
thinkt
thinktank
thinktanker
thinktankers
thinktanks
thinky
thinly
thinned (current term)
thinned out
thinner
thinners
thinness
thinnesses
thinnest
thinning
thinning out
thinning shears
thinnings
thinnish
thinolite
thinolites
thins

Literary usage of Thinned

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

1. Forest Mensuration by Henry Solon Graves (1906)
"Yield Tables for thinned Stands.—The method described above cannot be used ... In this country there are practically no stands which have been thinned from ..."

2. Forest Mensuration by Henry Solon Graves (1906)
"Yield Tables for thinned Stands.—The method described above cannot be used ... In this country there are practically no stands which have been thinned from ..."

3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"Lower branch not thinned. be thinned so that those which are left are separated from ... The crop of thinned fruit may sometimes exceed the measure that the ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"... and disease thinned their ranks. November 1st he states :—" Several had been entirely destitute of meat or bread for many days. ..."

5. The Principles of Fruit-growing by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1897)
"With the second method Baldwin, thinned, gave 26 per cent less fruit and about 22 per ... 1 fruit than did the corresponding trees which were not thinned. ..."

6. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"It may be propagated by root-division, but better by sowing the seed as soon as ripe, the plants being thinned to stand from 1 to \Yi feet asunder in rows 2 ..."

7. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1897)
"As we worked forward through this layer with shovel, hands and trowel to where it thinned out and the saltpetre earth now removed had formed the foothold ..."

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