thumbnail
Use Thumbnail in a sentence
noun
2.
anything quite small or brief, as a small drawing or short essay.
3.
Printing. a small, rough dummy.
4.
Also called porkchop. Journalism, Printing. a half-column portrait in a newspaper.
adjective
5.
quite small or brief; concise: a thumbnail description of Corsica.
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Thumbnail
is one of our favorite verbs.
So is skedaddle. Does it mean:
| to run away hurriedly; flee. |
| to swindle, cheat, hoodwink, or hoax. |
verb (used with object)
6.
to make a thumbnail sketch or description of.
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| —n | |
| 1. | the nail of the thumb |
| 2. | (modifier) concise and brief: a thumbnail sketch |
| 3. | computing a small image which can be expanded |
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Computing Dictionary
thumbnail definition
file format, graphics(From "thumbnail sketch") A file format used by Graphics Workshop for Microsoft Windows. Filename extension: ".thn".
[What's in the files?]
(1996-05-28)
Example sentences
The result is a thumbnail chronology of the minutiae of the wearer's daily life.
Hover over the thumbnail and the entire window expands into a preview.
At the book's end, each image is reprinted as a thumbnail and accompanied by a detailed caption.
There was perhaps some truth to this none too friendly thumbnail sketch.
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