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thin
1. adj. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
thin plate of metal; thin paper; thin board; thin covering
2. adj. Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
thin wire; thin string
3. adj. Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
thin person
4. adj. Of low viscosity or low specific gravity, e.g., as is water compared to honey.
5. adj. Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
The trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin.
6. adj. (golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
7. adj. Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
8. adj. Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
a thin disguise
9. n. (philately) A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.
10. n. Any food produced or served in thin slices.
chocolate mint thins
potato thins
11. v. To make thin or thinner.
12. v. (intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
13. v. To dilute.
14. v. To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
15. adv. Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.
seed sown thin
woven
1. adj. Fabricated by weaving.
Woven kevlar is tough enough to be bulletproof.
2. adj. Interlaced
The woven words of the sonnet were deep and moving.
3. n. A cloth formed by weaving. It only stretches in the bias directions (between the warp and weft directions), unless the threads are elastic.
4. v. past participle of weave
The spider had woven her web on a corner of the attic.
weave
1. v. To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.
This loom weaves yarn into sweaters.
2. v. To spin a cocoon or a web.
Spiders weave beautiful but deadly webs.
3. v. To unite by close connection or intermixture.
4. v. To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.
to weave the plot of a story
5. n. A type or way of weaving.
That rug has a very tight weave.
6. n. Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair.
7. v. (intransitive) To move by turning and twisting.
The drunk weaved into another bar.
8. v. To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side.
The ambulance weaved its way through the heavy traffic.
gauze
1. n. A thin fabric with a loose, open weave.
2. n. A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.
3. n. A thin woven metal or plastic mesh.
4. n. Wire gauze, used as fence.
5. n. Mist or haze
6. v. To apply a dressing of gauze
7. v. To mist
like
1. v. (transitive, archaic) To please.
2. v. To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of.
I like hamburgers
I like skiing in winter
I like the Seattle Mariners this season
3. v. (obsolete) To derive pleasure of, by or with someone or something.
4. v. To prefer and maintain (an action) as a regular habit or activity.
I like to go to the dentist every six months
She likes to keep herself physically fit
we like to keep one around the office just in case
5. v. (obsolete) To have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem to be (in a specified condition).
6. v. (archaic) To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly.
He liked to have been too late.
7. v. To find attractive; to prefer the company of; to have mild romantic feelings for.
I really like Sandra but don't know how to tell her.
8. v. (obsolete) To liken; to compare.
9. v. (Internet, transitive) To show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote.
I liked my friend's last status on Facebook.
I can't stand Bloggs' tomato ketchup, but I liked it on Facebook so I could enter a competition.
10. n. (usually plural) Something that a person likes (prefers).
Tell me your likes and dislikes.
11. n. (internet) An individual vote showing support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet.
12. adj. Similar.
My partner and I have like minds.
13. adj. (obsolete) Likely; probable.
14. adv. (informal) For example, such as: to introduce an example or list of examples.
There are lots of birds, like ducks and gulls, in this park.
15. adv. (archaic, colloquial) Likely.
16. adv. (obsolete) In a like or similar manner.
17. n. (sometimes as the likes of) Someone similar to a given person, or something similar to a given object; a comparative; a type; a sort.
There were bowls full of sweets, chocolates and the like.
It was something the likes of which I had never seen before.
18. n. (golf) The stroke that equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side.
to play the like
19. conj. (colloquial) As, the way.
20. conj. As if; as though.
It looks like you've finished the project.
It seemed like you didn't care.
21. prep. Similar to, reminiscent of.
These hamburgers taste like leather.
22. part. (colloquial, Scotland, Geordie, Teesside, Scouse) A delayed filler.
He was so angry, like.
23. part. (colloquial) A mild intensifier.
She was, like, sooooo happy.
24. part. (colloquial) indicating approximation or uncertainty
There were, like, twenty of them.
And then he, like, got all angry and left the room.
25. part. (colloquial, slang) When preceded by any form of the verb to be, used to mean “to say” or “to think”; used to precede an approximate quotation or paraphrase.
I was like, “Why did you do that?” and he's like, “I don't know.”
26. interj. (Liverpool, Geordie) Used to place emphasis upon a statement.
divint ye knaa, like?
fabric
1. n. (archaic) Structure, building.
2. n. (archaic) The act of constructing, construction, fabrication.
3. n. (archaic) The structure of anything, the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship, texture, make.
cloth of a beautiful fabric
4. n. The framework underlying a structure.
the fabric of our lives
the fabric of the universe
5. n. A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.
cotton fabric
6. n. (petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.
7. n. (computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.
The Internet is a fabric of computers connected by routers.

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