Thumbnail
noun
1.
the nail of the thumb.
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.
verb (used with object)
6.
to make a thumbnail sketch or description of.
noun
1.
the nail of the thumb
2.
(modifier) concise and brief: a thumbnail sketch
3.
(computing) a small image which can be expanded
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)
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