"thin" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

thin adjetivo

thin + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 397
thin layer • thin air • thin line • thin man • thin slice • thin lip • thin film • thin strip • thin sheet • thin smile • thin ice • thin stream • ...
verbo + thin
Kolokacji: 15
wear thin • stretch thin • grow thin • look thin • spread thin • ...
adverbio + thin
Kolokacji: 41
extremely thin • relatively thin • pretty thin • painfully thin • somewhat thin • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 11
(1) extremely, exceedingly
Kolokacji: 2
(2) relatively, comparatively
Kolokacji: 2
(5) dangerously, perilously
Kolokacji: 2
1. dangerously thin = niebezpiecznie wąski dangerously thin
2. perilously thin = niebezpiecznie wąski perilously thin
  • The holes permitted water to flood up and freeze a new layer over the perilously thin crust on which the men worked.
  • Enfeebled by the drugs, her self-control was perilously thin.
  • The enemy line was still there, but it was perilously thin.
  • Accordingly, these ambitious young people bubble with high hopes, though the line between dreams and delusion may prove perilously thin.
  • The Mets are perilously thin in the middle of their infield.
  • A perilously thin majority of just three.
  • They reached the summit at 1:40 p.m, inching their way up the perilously thin ridge of ice.
  • It was perilously thin, a ribbon of milky white.
  • But the line between the two often wears perilously thin.
  • We were streaking across a perilously thin edge of safety at a speed that was too fast for reaction, almost.
(6) impossibly, incredibly
Kolokacji: 2
(8) noticeably, invisibly
Kolokacji: 2
(10) considerably, infinitesimally
Kolokacji: 2
(11) increasingly, progressively
Kolokacji: 2
thin + preposición
Kolokacji: 10
thin with • thin on • thin in • thin of • thin for • ...

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