thumbnail
thumbnail
Definition
thumb·nail (t̸hum′nāl′)
noun
the nail of the thumb
adjective
very small, brief, or concise a thumbnail sketch
thumbnail
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- enlarge: Picture by Mrs. P. Click to enlarge the thumbnail.
- browse: Browse convenient poster thumbnails of your movie files, so you can find them quickly.
- select: Please select a thumbnail to get a larger image.
- generate: With the CD still in the drive you can click on a virtual folder to generate image thumbnails.
- label: There are 17 different labeled thumbnail digital images in JPEG format, all of which can be enlarged.
- click: On clicking the thumbnail a small window will launch.
Adjective modifier
- clickable: An alternative start page Round the Island showing clickable thumbnails from each page has been added.
Modifies a noun
- sketch: Indeed there are only eight lines constituting a thumbnail sketch of the first couple of decades of Mrs Cronin's life.
- screenshots: Thumbshots are thumbnail screenshots of web pages that allow you to visualize websites before web surfers click on the link.
- preview: Regardless of original file format, view a thumbnail preview or zoom in for detailed inspection.
- image: You can click on any of the thumbnail images below, to see a larger version.
- picture: Click on the thumbnail pictures to make them larger.
- photograph: Please click on the thumbnail photograph to see a larger picture of the image.
Noun used with modifier
- preview: The ActiveX component to create high-quality preview thumbnails for image files.
- click: A simple way to look at a sequence is to click Views in your toolbar and then click Thumbnails.
Preposition: of
- image: These images are small thumbnails of the full sized images.
Preposition: for
- enlargement: Click on the thumbnails for enlargements and then use the Back button to return to this page.
- picture: Please click on the thumbnail for the full size picture.
- image: Please click on the thumbnail for a larger image.
- specification: The Maestrowave Combi-Chef V Combination Microwave Oven " Click on thumbnail for specifications and larger image.
thumbnail Quotes
I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better Knowledge, sent to where I met him, down the Lachlan, years ago. He was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him, Just 'on spec', addressed as follows: 'Clancy, of the Overflow'. And an answer came directed in a writing unexpected, (And I think the same was written with a thumbnail dipped in tar) 'Twas his shearing mate who wrote it, and verbatim I will quote it: 'Clancy's gone to Queensland droving, and we don't know where he are.'
Browse dictionary entries near thumbnail
- thumbless
- thumbhole
- thumb piano
- thumb index
- thumb
- thulium
- thulia
- Thule
- thuja
- thuggish
- thumbprint
- thumbscrew
- thumbstall
- thumbtack
- Thummim
- thump
- thumper
- thumping
- thumpingly
- Thun
