thinning : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: thinning	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for thinning
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
thinning n the act of diluting something; "the cutting of whiskey with water"; "the thinning of paint with turpentine" Synonym(s): cutting, thinning
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thin \Thin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thinned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thinning}.] [Cf. AS. ge[thorn]ynnian.] To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective).