Definitions for thinly
thin·ly

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. thinlyadverb

   without force or sincere effort

   "smiled thinly"

2. thinly, thinadverb

   without viscosity

   "the blood was flowing thin"

3. thinly, lightlyadverb

   in a small quantity or extent

   "spread the margarine thinly over the meat"; "apply paint lightly"

4. thinlyadverb

   in a widely distributed manner

   "thinly overgrown mountainside"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. thinlyadverb

   In a thin, loose, or scattered manner; scantily; not thickly.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Thinlyadverb

   Not thickly; not closely; not densely; not numerously.

   Etymology: from thin.

   It is commonly opinioned, that the earth was thinly inhabited before the flood. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. vi.

2. Thinlynoun

   Etymology: from thin.

   1. Not thickly.2. Not closely; not numerously.

   It is opinioned, that the earth was thinly inhabited before the flood. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.

   Our walls are thinly mann’d; our best men slain:
   The rest, an heartless number, spent with watching. Dryd.

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1. thinly

   Thinly refers to something that is in a thin or slim state, manner, or form. It generally indicates a small or slight amount or degree. This term can be applied to objects, layers, spreads or even abstract concepts such as population density. For instance, sliced thinly, spread thinly, thinly populated, and so on.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Thinlyadjective

   in a thin manner; in a loose, scattered manner; scantily; not thickly; as, ground thinly planted with trees; a country thinly inhabited

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of thinly in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of thinly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of thinly in a Sentence

1. Lukas Erichsen:

   Indeed who would be prosecuted or fined should over 500 be killed in the next two years ? No doubt if over 500 were killed in a year then those responsible would claim they did not realize that the pod was so big until it was driven into the shallows and the dolphins killed, this new' quota' is meaningless for dolphins in the long run and has only hastily been announced as a thinly-veiled attempt to deceive both politicians and the press in the face of continued outrage over the killing of dolphins in the Faroe Islands.

2. Emerson Sykes:

   Government bodies should always strive for transparency, and the ACLU supports any good-faith effort to make public education as transparent as possible to parents and communities, but some of these so-called ‘ curriculum transparency bills ’ are thinly veiled attempts at chilling teachers and students from learning and talking about race and gender in schools. Their sponsors have said as much.

3. Elisha Frank:

   We move quickly to protect investors when we see thinly traded stocks being promoted with questionable information that make them ripe for pump-and-dump schemes, Fraudsters are constantly exploiting issues of public concern to tout a penny stock company supposedly in the business of addressing the latest crisis.

4. Richard Hill:

   Given that CLO managers are typically thinly capitalized, it is hard to envision that many small managers will have access to the long-term capital that risk-retention rules would require, unlike the last CLO manager consolidation cycle that followed the financial crisis, we believe this time around the consolidation economics are not as compelling given a combination of smaller post-crisis CLO management fees and shorter reinvestment periods.

5. Emerson Sykes:

   Government bodies should always strive for transparency, and the ACLU supports any good-faith effort to make public education as transparent as possible to parents and communities, but some of these so-called ‘curriculum transparency bills’ are thinly veiled attempts at chilling teachers and students from learning and talking about race and gender in schools. Their sponsors have said as much.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=thinly
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Thinly
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=thinly
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thinly