thinner

From thin + -er.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈθɪnə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) enPR: thĭnʹər, IPA^(key): /ˈθɪnɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɪnə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: thin‧ner

thinner

1. comparative form of thin: more thin

thinner (plural thinners)

1. A liquid substance used to thin the consistency of another liquid.

   Turpentine or mineral spirits can be used as a thinner for oil-based paints.

2. Something that thins or thins out (another thing).

   Pomegranate juice and exercise are great natural blood thinners.

   The new type of mechanical thinner allowed thinning of peach blossoms to be completed earlier.

   A solid mane thinner is indispensable in finishing the looks of your horse.

• → Portuguese: tíner
• → Spanish: tíner
• → Turkish: tiner

Borrowed from English thinner.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪ.nər/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: thin‧ner
• Rhymes: -ɪnər

thinner m (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. paint thinner

• thiner, tíner, tíñer

Unadapted borrowing from English thinner.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtineɾ/ [ˈt̪i.neɾ]
• Rhymes: -ineɾ
• Syllabification: thin‧ner

thinner m (plural thinners)

1. thinner, paint thinner

   Synonyms: disolvente, solvente

• According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “thinner”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

Borrowed from English thinner. Attested since 1934.

thinner c

1. paint thinner

• “thinner”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “thinner”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “thinner”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)