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thumb·nail (t̸hum′nāl′)

noun

the nail of the thumb

adjective

very small, brief, or concise a thumbnail sketch

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thumbnail Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • enlarge: Picture by Mrs. P. Click to enlarge the thumbnail.

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.

Noun used with modifier

  • preview: The ActiveX component to create high-quality preview thumbnails for image files.

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.
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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.'

-Paterson, Banjo (Andrew Barton)

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