Definition of thumbnail
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:the nail of the thumb
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:a miniature computer graphic sometimes hyperlinked to a full-size version
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Examples of thumbnail in a Sentence
You can see a larger version of the picture by clicking on the thumbnail.
Recent Examples of thumbnail from the Web
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Sheridan’s screenplay provides plenty of thumbnail portraits of colorful characters.
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What this thumbnail sketch of action fails to convey is the beauty and force of the novel’s invented language.
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Thumbnail images of anything Bing thinks is for adults only are actually blurred out by default.
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Even with low-res video, egregious watermarking, and annoying pop-ups, these videos con their way into millions of views thanks in large part to the lie of their thumbnails.
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Other photos in iCloud are still shown as thumbnails, and can be downloaded in a tap.
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Location pages themselves feature a clickable red story ring around the thumbnail image.
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Foster also provides a quick thumbnail on each of the Rockies starting pitchers.
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In the bowl was a silver fish, barely bigger than my thumbnail, with flowing silver fins.
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First Known Use of thumbnail
1604
Definition of thumbnail
Examples of thumbnail in a Sentence
a thumbnail outline of the plot of the novel
First Known Use of thumbnail
1852
thumbnail Synonyms
Synonyms
aphoristic, apothegmatic, brief, capsule, compact, compendious, crisp, curt, elliptical (or elliptic), epigrammatic, laconic, monosyllabic, pithy, sententious, succinct, summary, telegraphic, terse, conciseAntonyms
circuitous, circumlocutory, diffuse, long-winded, prolix, rambling, verbose, windy, wordyRelated Words
abrupt, blunt, brusque (also brusk), short, snippety, snippy; abbreviated, abridged, condensed, curtailed, shortened; meaty, substantial; meaningful, significant; well-turnedNear Antonyms
pleonastic, redundant, repetitious, tautological, tautologous; enlarged, expanded, supplemented; embellished, embroidered, exaggerated, inflatedTHUMBNAIL Defined for English Language Learners
thumbnail
play
noun
Definition of thumbnail for English Language Learners
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: the hard covering at the end of a thumb : the fingernail of a thumb
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computers : a very small copy of a larger picture on a computer
thumbnail
adjective
Definition of thumbnail for English Language Learners
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: very short or brief
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