thinning
/θˈɪnɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.14 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The trimming, pruning and thinning must be managed with care. Some need more thinning than others."
- "but with a suitable mixture of early and late maturing kinds, the young hickories, ashs and larches can be utilized as thinnings, at a profit. In estimating the value of the thinnings upon the basis of Prof. Sargent's estimate of the acreage yield of hoop poles from hickory plantations,"
- "It is highly likely that this thinning was not atrophic or pathological, but simply the thinning from stretching under the forces of labor, as Bandl and others explain it."
- "thinning hair"