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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the act of diluting something;
- Example: "the cutting of whiskey with water"
- Example: "the thinning of paint with turpentine"
[syn: cutting, thinning]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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).
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

thinning
    n 1: the act of diluting something; "the cutting of whiskey with
         water"; "the thinning of paint with turpentine" [syn:
         cutting, thinning]