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thumbnail
[thuhm-neyl]
noun
anything quite small or brief, as a small drawing or short essay.
Printing.a small, rough dummy.
Also called porkchop.Journalism, Printing.a half-column portrait in a newspaper.
adjective
quite small or brief; concise.
a thumbnail description of Corsica.
verb (used with object)
to make a thumbnail sketch or description of.
thumbnail
/ ˈθʌˌԱɪ /
noun
the nail of the thumb
(modifier) concise and brief
a thumbnail sketch
computing a small image which can be expanded
Word History and Origins
Origin of thumbnail1
Example Sentences
But the movie’s verité style of thumbnail portraiture doesn’t always dovetail neatly with the other elements: the unloading of facts, getting those drone shots in and projecting a thriller-like atmosphere.
I look for the jade plant in front of our apartment building, whose leaves I would press with my thumbnail while waiting for my parents to come downstairs.
So that’s the thumbnail traumatic imprint of people on the Right very often.
In the building next door, families scratch desperately through thumbnail photos scattered in piles on the concrete floor – face after face staring grim and blank, silent witnesses to the years of Assad's rule.
To distinguish between more innocuous cases of narcissism and the literally dangerous varieties, Durvasula offered a thumbnail test: "Narcissists who are narcissistic do feel remorse," Durvasula said.
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